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There was another earthquake, this time in China.  All of these earthquakes happening so often makes me (and probably many other people) wonder about the future of this planet.

Earthquakes are of course caused when ti-tonic plates rub up against each other and this rubbing produces shaking around the area that has shifted.  These can be near mountain ranges, or specific fault lines such as the famous San Andrea’s faults in California.  Another place where earthquake activity can occur is in the ocean.  Our planet is over 70% ocean and many volcanoes are actually beneath the surface of the ocean.  The infamous “ring of fire” is a good example of this.

In China though, mostly seem to be mountain ranges, so I suspect that the rubbing of these mountains together may be the cause of what happened in China.  This of course does not bother me.  What bothers me is the frequency of the earthquakes recently.

Now, this could be due to the fact that the world is becoming more and more interconnected.  Only because of things like television and internet have we recently been able to access everything that is happening throughout the world.  What we know now is much more than we knew before.  But, how many occurrences did we not know of before?  We will never know, since they probably were never recorded, or if they were, the public did not know about them.

However, many say that the earthquake occurrences are much more than before, and if this is the case, we have to ask why.  If there is a reason that we can figure out, maybe we can prevent it.  But it is quite possible that we will not be able to prevent it since we still know very little about earthquakes themselves, and as far as I know of, we do not have the technology to stop them.