SAN FRANCISCO — Here in California, August has been just another average month in terms of earthquakes, with scores of tremors everywhere, from near the northern city of Eureka (which had an adorable little shake on Saturday) to around the Mexican border (which jittered with an even cuter temblor on Monday afternoon).

And so while the 5.8-magnitude quake on the East Coast was a seriously scary affair for those affected, it also elicited more than a few snarky remarks from those West Coasters for whom tremors are an unsettling, but steady, fact of life.

“Pah!” wrote one reader on The San Francisco Chronicle’s Web site. “We eat 5.9 for breakfast.” (The preliminary magnitude was later downgraded to 5.8, presumably an even lighter meal.)