Earthquake!

Earthquake hit the heart of China. As far as Beijing and HongKong felt the 7.8 earthquake at Sichuan. At least hundreds if not thousands may be dead. Another horrible natural disaster strike. This is the same 7.8 scale as the disasterous 1976 Tang Shen big earthquake!

Hurricane! Earthquake! Volcano! When mother nature roars on Mother's Day, it turns a Happy Mother's Day into Horrifying Day.

I can't help but recall this interesting game that I played on the Tandy 1000: Archon, where you can summon elementals. Some war strategy games also have random events such as fire and earthquake to test your rebuilding strategy while watching your enemies. Sorry, I know, this is no game.

The weatherman more or less can predict when storms are coming, but it is so hard to detect earthquake. Ancient Chinese made a cool device where they carve balls in dragon mouths. When the balls drop the ground is shaking! Run! How come we don't see much progress in earthquake detection since the Han dynasty? All the research institutes do is to show a EKG like diagram and attach a logarithmic Ritcher scale number afterwards.

We can't prevent the wrath and schedule of mother nature. It probably took many many earthquakes over millions of years to crash India from Antarctica to the Chinese border to create the Himalayas, and to separte Africa from South America. The earth has its schedule.

Our entire civilization of a few thousand years is a small segment in earth's time line.

Although we are quite limited beings, but we should put out the best efforts to help those in need... You can help too! Donate to your favorite help-the-world charity organizations.