Climate Change, Earthquakes and Doomsday

has witnessed a substantial increase in earthquakes. According to long-term records, since about 1900, the average number of major earthquakes per year has been 16. These usually include 15 earthquakes in the magnitude seven range and one earthquake having a magnitude of 8.0 or greater. The records of the past 40-50 years reveal that we have exceeded the longterm average number of significant earthquakes about a dozen times. Earthquakes are increasing all around the world. The above tradition relates earthquakes with Doomsday, as an Earthquake is, in fact, a small reminder of the day of resurrection. A surge the earth is split asunder with a terrible rumbling; when buildings come tumbling down like playing cards; when the upper layers of the earth are cracked open, and the interior of the earth is spewed out, when cities bustling with life are reduced to ashes in a matter of minutes; when the earth is strewn with dead bodies, like shoals of fish washed up on the sea coast, man realises his utter helplessness in the face of nature. What is most tragic about earthquakes and volcanic eruptions is that no one can predict when or where they will take place. Moreover, everything happens in a flash when they do, leaving little or no time for