Los Angeles Shakes, World Yawns: How a 5.2 Quake Became Global Schadenfreude
LOS ANGELES—The ground beneath Hollywood’s most over-medicated city rolled over in its sleep at 12:20 p.m. local time, registering a polite 5.2 on the Richter scale and reminding the planet that even America’s self-proclaimed capital of reinvention is still, geologically speaking, on the Pacific’s naughty list. From Tokyo to Tehran, seismologists looked up from their…