Are earthquakes cyclical? I can understand why they would be. Earthquakes are massive releases of tension created by plate tectonics. Presumably violent movement on one part of the plate would create tension on another part of the plate and... a rash of earthquakes.
No one has explained to me if that is the case though.
I am waiting for Pat Robertson to blame it on Japanese porn or Rand Paul to say it's because he can't buy incandescent lightbulbs. Probably Jim Inhofe will tell us that it's because the dinosaur that Jesus rode when he made the earth 8000 years ago did a bad job hiring the subcontractor (Satan anyone?) to handle the plate stuff.
I don't mean to minimize the seriousness of this catastrophe. I just know that if it happened in this country, we'd have a rush of conservatives to microphones explaining how this validates their previously held Flat Earth, anti-science worldviews. Given that it happened to Not-White people on the other side of the world, it will probably just be chalked up to atheism or socialism or something.
Anyway, don't be a glib cynic like me.
Give here.
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