Not all of the damage from Earthquake was something as simple as a fallen picture, etc. There were buildings that had walls fall. And I think the biggest thing the people in California need to realize about the reaction of the people on the East coast is this..The east coast is one solid plate. It isn't like CA where they are on faults, etc and when they have an earthquake it's centralized. East Coast quakes travel the entire plate. And since people over here don't get earthquakes much the NY reaction is pretty understandable. For all they knew, there was another terrorist attack