There has been a massive earthquake about 150 km off the coast of Japan in the north, near Sendai. It is continuing to generate several large aftershocks and a devastating tsunami that has multiple waves. I'm saying prayers for friends in Japan, Guam, Taiwan, Indonesia, the Philippines and Hawaii. And hoping the tsunami doesn't do more than cause ( Read more... )

My freshman year of college I was a geology major, so I have a soft spot in my heart for geologists and geophysicists already, but here is one who absolutely rocks my socks. Maria Brumm, a Seattle geophysicist, explains, with diagrams, how gay marriage causes earthquakes.

iamzuul wrote an interesting, somewhat ranty post about hurricane and earthquake preparedness. I started to reply in her lj, and realized I was writing an essay, so I ought to post it here instead.

( And now a break from family chaos to muse about natural disasters... )