[unixfox]

He believes in global warming too, right?

Of course he does. But he will blame earthquakes on fracking.

[MarMema]

No - actually this has some soundish science behind it.

They know the earth is losing time and went back and found that every fifth year in this cycle was one in which there were a lot of large earthquakes. Then it quiets down again until next time.

So 2018 is the fifth year. We shall see......