Well, Green, if you lived in California, this was nothing, but for here, we don't get them all that often. It would be like if Southern California got an inch and a half of ice...
Though, the thing I found most interesting is that in California, if there was an earthquake at 5.9, people 20 miles away would barely feel it, but here out east, because of the solid bedrock underneath, we can feel it hundreds of miles away! Of course, I find trivia like that interesting...