earthquakes

A temblor rated at 5.8 on the Richter scale struck southern California about a quarter past 11 a.m. The quake was centered near Pomona. CNN reports,

The quake's epicenter was about 2 miles southwest of Chino Hills and about 5 miles southeast of Diamond Bar, the USGS said.

Two earthquakes occurred today (July 5, 2008) in or near Tennessee.

The first was at 1:14 am and registered 2.0 on the Richter scale.
It was centered four-miles ESE of Madisonville (38 mi. SSW of Knoxville) in East Tennessee.
Quake information from the USGS.

In a post earlier this week I mentioned the strange case of Karma, Vodka, and Earthquakes.
The good news is Ms. Stone finally sobered up. Good for her.
 Hollywood star Sharon Stone has apologised for suggesting China’s earthquake was bad “karma” for its handling of Tibet, but Christian Dior on Thursday dropped her from its local ads [...]

When I was a kid, and I’m talking about five-years-old, I used to confuse earthquakes and volcanos. I was terrified of volcanos for some reason, but I would get the words messed up and ask my mother if west Tennessee could have earthquakes.
Of course, she responded “Yes” and I would freak out thinking she was [...]

I've been tagged by Jay3gsm, EllasDevil, and Kat for this meme, when I’m tripled teamed it is hard not to comply.

These are the rules:
1. When tagged, place the name and URL of the tagger on your blog.

A long essay by Edward T. Oakes, "Atheism and Violence," discusses and refutes the recent books of Richard Dawkins, Chris Hitchen, et. al., that if all humanity would only renounce religious belief, then violence would cease and permanent peace would result. Curiously enough, the rant-filled Friedrich Nietzsche, who claimed that "God is dead" and originated the germanic idea of the Superman, offers the best argument against these arg