Lately I've been forced to admit it is odd that we've had two of the five largest earthquakes in recorded history occur in just the past 7 years, both followed by two of the most devastating tsunamis.
It is also weird in the extreme that we've had an earthquake hit the Eastern US, shaking both Washington DC and New York out of their tectonic complacency.
And now, even stranger, a quake hits Oklahoma, where the wind sweeps gently through the plains (when it's not sand-blasting through as tornadoes, that is).
What next, a typhoon in Des Moines?
Which is all to say I am now a bit confused. You can blame weird weather on man-made global warming, but it's much harder to blame earthquakes on carbon emissions. Unless sucking all that lubricating oil out of the crust might be causing some sticking and cracking?
Or maybe, just maybe, the Mayans had something there. Could all their kooky modern-day adherents have something too? Can we be on the run-up to the end?
I'm still a skeptic, preferring to believe these are just natural events that aren't leading to some catastrophe predicted a thousand years ago; but, hey, I've an open mind and time left to ponder (I hope).
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