What seems dangerous often is not--black snakes, for example, or clear-air turbulence. While things that just lie there, like this beach, are loaded with jeopardy. A yellow dust rising from the ground, the heat that ripens melons overnight--this is earthquake weather.

--Amy Hempel, from one of my all time favorite stories, In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried.

With the powerful earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, Taiwan, and Turkey in the last two months, it feels like earthquake season. Luckily, it's not--the earth's plates are slowly moving along like they normally do: at the speed that human fingernails grow. Marc Acito, The Upside columnist for Walletpop, has this to say:

Good news -- we're not actually getting more earthquakes.[...]

[Published in GreenNews - Read the original article]