To think all these earthquakes are strange??

[Mammylamb]

Recently there seems to have been a lot of earthquakes (Japan, nz, Mexico). Is it normal to get so many close together in time? (admittedly thousands of miles apart)

America & the Caribbean are experiencing stronger hurricanes this year due to the lack of the 'el Nino' effect. Google this also.

Was it not that silly Hunger Games actress who blamed Irma on Trump and his global warming stufg? Stupid woman.

We just hear more about it now. And still not even all the time. NZ just had a biug earthquake in Wellington.

We are always bombarded with news from the American and South Americsn Continents. Every.single.hurricane.season. Every season is nowadays the worse one ever, blah.

What some pp's have said, this is a natural disaster, unrelated to global warming, climate change, hurricanes, Kim Jong Il, Donald Trump, any deity or none, the end of the world, Brexit, the decline of moral standards, the dawning of the age of Aquarius, the fall of the house of Usher, the Lord of the Rings, add your own explanation.......
Mexico is on the edge of the Pacific 'Ring of fire' where the tectonic plates are moving, one plate is currently moving under another one along the Pacific coastline of Mexico. This is why there are earthquakes. There was a good graphic explanation at the end of the BBC 6pm news.

Maybe it our noah's arch

Told my husband we are nearing the apocalypse. I wonder if there's some child somewhere eating lemon sherberts and debating letting it happen. Volcanoes likely to erupt, earthquakes, hurricanes. It's the end.

Don't be too quick to dismiss the hurricane/earthquake link. I scoffed too, but it seems there are a number of research projects that have indicated there may be some link. Hurricanes contain enormous amounts of energy, that may have an influence.

I was just wondering as they seem to be in the news a lot. Wasn't sure if it just was me noticing rather than anything else

Yes, that's how earthquakes work. When tectonic plates move, this causes earthquakes. If a particular plate is moving around it's to be expected that various locations on the plate, along the fault lines, would experience quakes.

Global warming.

Caused by the West and mass consumerism.

This place never fails to produce a laugh

So you were oblivious to all the deadly earthquakes in earlier decades, I take it.

Earthquakes are entirely normal, so are hurricanes.

Do you think god is showing his anger by killing a few hundred people?

I bet they are bricking it in California, where they are long overdue a massive and devastating earthquake on a parr with or maybe even bigger than huge one they had in Japan a few years ago. They call it The Big One, and know it's not if it's when. When my DB went to LA they had instructions in his hotel room on what to do if there's an earthquake.

Today I saw four men. On horses.

So, I have ditched the diet and I am drinking and eating 🍫.

I love this website.

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Oops.

Earthquakes

I remember in geography at school we watched a film about the big earthquake in LA. And we have to learn the location of the tectonic plates. Was very interesting.

#helpful

Earthquakes might be normal, but they are the fucking scary.

*Today I saw four men. On horses.

So, I have ditched the diet and I am drinking wine and eating 🍫*

Made me laugh.

Is it too far of a stretch to wonder if the earthquakes are linked to North Korea testing weapons?

www.standard.co.uk/news/world/north-korea-successfully-conducts-test-of-hydrogen-bomb-sparking-63-magnitude-earthquake-a3625696.html

No idea about earthquakes and global warming. But scientists do seem to think that while global warming is not causing an increase in the number of hurricanes it is causing them to be much bigger and stronger.
www.newscientist.com/article/2146562-hurricane-irmas-epic-size-is-being-fuelled-by-global-warming/

An unmentionable newspaper promised it's the Rapture this weekend. Wish I knew for sure, then I could ditch the pre holiday diet.

24 hour rolling news coverage makes things seem worse than they are. As recently as 25 years ago we just wouldnt have known that there'd been an earthquake in Japan/Mexico/Iran. Unless it was mentioned at the end of the news and you just happened to catch it. Now we are saturated with news, 24 hours a day and from all over the world, so of course it seems like everything is getting worse.

There isnt any evidence to suggest that earthquakes have increased over the last 100 years.

Planet X/Nibiru is apparently coming for us all this Saturday. Just like it was in March of this year. Then in September 2016, before that May 2016, December 2012, 2003 and 1995. Guess what? It's bollocks.

It's just further evidence that life as we know it is a computer generated simulation.