Between 2010 and 2012, I wrote numerous articles on this site about earthquakes. So many, in fact, that my wife warned me that I was turning into the Boy who cried Wolf. I took her advice to heart, and haven’t had anything to say about the subject for months.
But….
The wolf is still out there.
Last week, CBS Nightly News did not quite predict that California will slide into the Pacific, but they did say that a major California quake is inevitable – possibly overdue – not a matter of if but when.
Not even Hobbits are safe. Last month, two giant bronze eagles were installed at the Wellington, New Zealand, airport. A magnitude 6.2 quake there yesterday caused one of the one ton birds to fall to the floor.
The good news for Tolkien fans is that the bird that fell is not the one that carries Gandalf. The wizard is still aboard the other eagle soaring above the terminal.
What has that got to do with earthquakes in California? Not much, maybe, but they are related. New Zealand sits at the southwestern edge of the Pacific "ring of fire," an area of high seismic and volcanic activity that stretches up through Japan, across to Alaska and down the west coasts of North and South America.
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