That End of the World Feeling

That End of the World Feeling
5/31/08
Have you ever noticed that there are so many movies in Hollywood that corresponds with the end of the world, or super disasters that cause the end of the world. Movies such as " The Day After Tomorrow"," 10.5 Apocalypse", or "Category 7 End of The World". Well I don't believe in those things, though I sometimes want to watch it, just to see it's special effects or maybe see how they make the effects so real. But lately, there were many natural disaster that happened possibly in one day or week at a global scale. These things gave some weird feeling that makes everything feel out of order. This feeling first came from a major earthquake in China that measured 7.9 on the richter scale. It happened in Sichuan which contains about 3 provinces that is also called the Szechuan Province. Later on for about 1 week or so there were more than 2000 aftershocks, most were under 3.9 on the richter scale. But there were 2 that measured at 6.6 and 6.4 which would actually be considered a moderate earthquake. Then during this week, there were 3 moderate aftershocks, they were measured at 6.4, 5.7 and 4.7.This constant aftershock that lasts so long is rare and expecially the earthquake that lasted for 3 minutes when normal earthquakes last for only 10 to 15 seconds and cause major damage. Now there are nearly 70,000 people dead and expected to hit 90,000. After these 3 weeks there was news that there was an earthquake in Alaska, which led me to a theory that the " Ring of Fire" might be spreading. The " Ring of Fire" like a Ring that stretches from San Fransisco,California to Chile, South America, then takes a curve to Eastern Australia, up to the Phillipines, then to the Japan and Korea and at last take a curve to the border of Alaska and back down to California. The Ring Of Fire consists of mainly volcanoes and earthquakes and it's really rare that China even has any earthquake, the last earthquake in China was 32 years ago! But earthquake in Alaska is not as rare, though this one was not at the border of Alaska and measured at 6.7 or so. This led to a theory that the "Ring of Fire" is spreading, shifting or a continental shift. Now to Europe, they had a sandstorm that covered the whole sky, it was said that it came from the Sahara Desert in Africa. At the same time scorching temperatures in Europe has already occurred. And in the United States there were constant tornadoes in the " Tornado Alley" or the MidWest, and the tornado season haven't even started yet! So far there more than 100 tornado deaths reported since the start of the year. This is all happens from one day to a week all at once, making me feel a little aware of the feeling that it is the end of the world, though I hope it's not.