#95464 by Enemy of State on 8/16 at 11:19 am
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Cyrena, actually earthquakes are a pretty common (and normal) part of the way the earth operates. We are probably just paying more attention recently. There is no reason to think the planet is changing its seismic character.
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I trust you on this EOS.... (that they aren’t so uncommon), and until recently, I didn’t believe that earthquakes WERE particularly uncommon. (I’m a California native...how could I think otherwise?:))

So you’re right, I’m probably just pananoid, and our attention is more focused on these natural disasters, even if they aren’t all earthquakes. It’s an “emotionality” that throws them all into the same box in our minds, because they cause distruction and take human life, and on the whole, we don’t perceive that we have any control over such events.

That seems to be the experience more with earthquakes than any other natural disasters for which we can provide some measure of warning, by use of technology. (like hurricanes and related storm conditions).

So, it’s things like earthquakes that should serve as a reminder to all of us, that we’re still mostly only “guests” here, (on the earth)and that we still can’t control everything that goes on in it.

Cyrena, actually earthquakes are a pretty common (and normal) part of the way the earth operates. We are probably just paying more attention recently. There is no reason to think the planet is changing its seismic character.

Ya know, this just seems to be an everyday occurance now, at least SOMEPLACE in the world, and usually more than one in the same day.

These sorts of events, these natural disasters, for some reason seem to be occurring about 300% more frequently, and more severely, than I can remember in the past 4 decades.

So, maybe it’s just me, but this is all really very unsettling.

And another one in the Solomon Islands - still no ysunami, luckily. There have been a rolling series of quakes around the Pacific recently. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/eqinthenews/2007/u s2007gccj/