Bryan W. Alaspa 1The earth seems mad
April 15th 2010 01:19
I am not one to declare the end of the world. Well, I might be, but only in a work of fiction. In fact, I am working on a work of fiction that I am publishing a chapter at a time online and the fate of the world may very well be at stake, but I am not the type to declare the end of the world without it being a work of fiction. I do not think that things are going to end in 2012. If it does, well, if I were the earth, I might be pretty ticked off and want to start over too. In fact, I kind of thing the earth is mad at us.
I don't know. The earth is always moving. There are movements of the plates of the earth all the time. Most of the time they move in such tiny movements that we don't even feel them. There are fault lines everywhere. We even have them here in Chicago. However, they are mostly small and when they do move they just make minor tremors.
So, I am not sure if it just seems like the earth is moving more because we have 24-hour news channels and they have a lot of time to fill. Maybe we are just on an earthquake kick the way everyone was on a shark attack kick the summer of 2001, before 9/11 made that little obsession seem exactly like what it was - stupid.
It just seems like the earth is trying to shake us off or something. Like a dog that has gotten wet and is standing there shaking and spraying all over you clothes. However, it's like it's trying to shake humanity off into space. Again, given what humanity has done to the earth, I wouldn't exactly blame it.
It just seems like there have been a lot of earthquakes lately. I mean, the year started off with the shocking and horrible devastation in Haiti. Just after that, we actually did have a minor, but disturbing, tremor here in Chicago. Then there was one in California. Then there was a big tremor, one of the largest ever recorded, that struck Chile. There was another one in California that also affected Mexico. Now, suddenly, there is a big series of quakes in China. It's only April and that is a lot of earthquakes.
Maybe this happens more often than we realize. I am not a seismologist. I don't know about these things. I do know that I was surprised when I got to St. Louis and started going to college there that the world's largest inland fault is in New Madrid Missouri. My second year there I felt a small tremor while sitting in a friend's room. I felt another that hit that same fault even though I was all the up in Chicago back in 2008. When the fault had a big quake in the 1800s it made the Mississippi run backwards and rang church bells in Boston. I remember thinking that this was not in the brochures I got about the school.
I don't think the world is coming to an end. At least, I don't think so. I am no expert. I just know that, were I the earth, I might have just about had enough.
I don't know. The earth is always moving. There are movements of the plates of the earth all the time. Most of the time they move in such tiny movements that we don't even feel them. There are fault lines everywhere. We even have them here in Chicago. However, they are mostly small and when they do move they just make minor tremors.
So, I am not sure if it just seems like the earth is moving more because we have 24-hour news channels and they have a lot of time to fill. Maybe we are just on an earthquake kick the way everyone was on a shark attack kick the summer of 2001, before 9/11 made that little obsession seem exactly like what it was - stupid.
It just seems like the earth is trying to shake us off or something. Like a dog that has gotten wet and is standing there shaking and spraying all over you clothes. However, it's like it's trying to shake humanity off into space. Again, given what humanity has done to the earth, I wouldn't exactly blame it.
It just seems like there have been a lot of earthquakes lately. I mean, the year started off with the shocking and horrible devastation in Haiti. Just after that, we actually did have a minor, but disturbing, tremor here in Chicago. Then there was one in California. Then there was a big tremor, one of the largest ever recorded, that struck Chile. There was another one in California that also affected Mexico. Now, suddenly, there is a big series of quakes in China. It's only April and that is a lot of earthquakes.
Maybe this happens more often than we realize. I am not a seismologist. I don't know about these things. I do know that I was surprised when I got to St. Louis and started going to college there that the world's largest inland fault is in New Madrid Missouri. My second year there I felt a small tremor while sitting in a friend's room. I felt another that hit that same fault even though I was all the up in Chicago back in 2008. When the fault had a big quake in the 1800s it made the Mississippi run backwards and rang church bells in Boston. I remember thinking that this was not in the brochures I got about the school.
I don't think the world is coming to an end. At least, I don't think so. I am no expert. I just know that, were I the earth, I might have just about had enough.
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