Our Land in Peril

Not much to say here except to link together a few articles containing information that we should all be paying attention to.

East coast has a 5.8 magnitude earthquake, strongest since 1988, very rare for the region. People have too much fun "tweeting" about it to wonder why it may have happened.

Maybe it's just a fluke thing and there's nothing to worry about. Earthquakes happen all the time after all, and even regions where they are rare still have to have them... after all, rare and impossible are not the same.

Or maybe, right in line with some thousands year long cycle coming to an end a little over a year from now (as predicted by the Mayans, who as anyone who knows anything about the Mayans can tell you, knew next to nothing about cycles... not) the Earth has finally had enough with us, and these disasters lately including this one are it's warning shots before it decides to throw us off its back for good.

Or maybe, as some scientists are saying, we brought this on ourselves:
Fracking could have caused East Coast earthquake
The gist of the article is that there is evidence that the earthquake, along with many other geological instabilities along the East Coast of late, may have been caused by"Hydrofracking." 
This relatively new innovation brought about by our insatiable thirst for energy involved injecting millions of gallons of saltwater bi-product into the Earth's crust.
Funny how no major US news sources are reporting on this yet, even though the evidence seems pretty damning.

And at the same time, power companies with nuclear plants along fault lines cut funding for quake sensors so they can save money.
“Quake sensors removed around Virginia nuke plant due to budget cuts”

While we still are dealing with the impact of the disaster at Fukushima in Japan almost 6 months ago.
“We are basically recreating Fukushima all over again” — Clouds of radiation continue across to Pacific Northwest

As we hurtle forward...