An Earth What?

I lived through another earthquake.
A few weeks ago, there was a 6.0 on the Nevada-Utah border, and apparently it knocked a couple of buildings down there. Shook things as far east as Salt Lake. I slept through it. Only found out about it because, on the way to work that morning, the radio was aflame with folk screaming about how things were "just a-shakin'." They never interview doctoral candidates after natural disasters, do they?