Yes, an earthquake hit southern California shortly before noon Tuesday.

It was magnitude 5.4.

Yes, most of us noticed it.

No, no one got hurt.

No, nothing was damaged.

We've been through it before.

It'll happen again.

There was no reason for the news channels to run all-quake, all-the-time for the next three hours.

The best part was Fox News running a video feed from a helicopter showing "evacuees" gathered outdoors on a football field. After zooming in a little bit, it turned out they weren't evacuees, but instead a marching band practicing its field show.

Let's make a deal: We won't call, message or go crazy every time there's a tornado warning in the Midwest, if you won't bug us unless the quake is at least magnitude 6.5.