Is the world ending? (Fearless Blue)

Is it just me or anyone else starting to wonder if the world is ending?

Earthquake in Jan 2010 hit northern california.
Shortly afterwards Haiti was hit. Then Chile. Then some place in Asia. Now again, a 7.2 hit the border of california and mexico. Here in chicago, about a month ago a quake struck southern IL and we felt it here at 4am. Felt like a plane landing at the airport.

So...is the world getting a taste of the everyday occurances of natural disasters in Simcountry (lol) or is the world ending?

CNN is calling 2010 the year of the quakes.

I wonder if all the drilling for oil and gas (which realises huge amounts of pressure) has created massive pockets of depressurised space in the earths crust. Maybe these pressurized pockets created a dampening affect when seismic activities happened? And now they are not having this effect, due to the depressurization, seismic activity in one area could now be having a triggering effect on other areas of seismic activity, creating more seismic activity?!.

Then theres the Nuke tests.............

Oh yea, and then theres the dispersion of weight on the earths crust due to the melting of the Ice Caps and glaciers................................

But if your scared of earth quakes, and trust me, I've only been in 5 tiny ones and they all scared the crap out of me, we have hope in the words of someone I heard on the radio who was talking about this very thing, he said that the reason we think there is more seismic activi

Laguna is sprinkling his fairy dust again, don't panic.

Actually, most of these quakes are happening along the ring of fire. It exists all along the pacific ocean coastline, from alaska to chile and all along asia. The ocean is constantly creating new ocean floor, which forces the plates along the coasts under the crust, thus generating quakes.

It has nothing to do with oil drilling, the Ice caps melting(which are actually getting bigger btw, a report that was just released), or Nuke tests. It just means higher seismic activity. Be prepared for some volcanoes to be erupting in the next decade, as these are also a result from this.

They might be getting bigger in size, but not in weight. It's due to the melt water around the caps being alot colder. It freezes further out to sea in the winter.

Look i hav never PERSONALLY been in an earthquake, but u can tell how powerful they can be if u have. Now how can u conclude that something as small scale as ice melting or oil drilling can make strong enough changes in the earth's interior to produce something as massive as an earthquake or volcanic eruption?? It seems impossible to make those changes occur by our own choosing (or mistakes) with today's technology (unless we do something like drill a 5 mile deep hole and detonate 1000 100 megaton nuclear weapons.) Like Caesar said (look above), this decade might have an average seismic activity level higher than normal, but the changes that cause this excess activity come most likely are natural and not too out of the ordinary. But I highly doubt that people today can unknowingly cause changes too occur that create massive earthquakes.

considering all the points here, it could be 50/50, lol.

Now considering other phenomena, like Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Tsunamis, etc. What are your thoughts about those (im guessing whats written about quakes can be said also for other natural disasters). Where's that damn comet? O.o

the aliens are using their tractor beams to affect the earth crust were all gunna be probed soon then got blowed up

and you know it! It explains everything! Even my goat addiction...(the beginning of a solution, is to admit you have a problem, ROFL)

/me drills a hole in nix to see if he de-pressurises. LMAO!

CraftyCoalminer

Tornado occurances aren't any higher now than what they have been in the past. tsunamis have a direct connection to the earthquakes and any volcanic activity. Hurricanes, well, i don't really know enough about them to make an educated statement about them.

CraftyCoalminer blunts his drill bit and goes in search for a diamond tipped one.