In journalism, you hear a lot about providing context, so for that, I did the obvious thing: I reached out to a couple of people in Los Angeles. One was Adam Nagourney, a Times reporter who moved there years ago after he was named Los Angeles bureau chief. He said that when he feels even the slightest shake, he looks at the X platform. He can judge how extensive and serious it was from the posts asking did you feel that that inevitably pop up. All that said, and no offense to my friends in Queens, he told me, a 1.7 earthquake would not even merit a tweet here. It's background noise, if it is even noise. I think it has to get above 3 or 3.5 before people notice.
There was a time when there were big earthquakes in the New York area. That was before it was New York, before it was New Amsterdam and even before that, when the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano had g...
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