Sign posted at an Emergency Services Management command post:
Civilization exists by geological consent - subject to change without notice.
That's right. There is a certain type person who upon having a thought, or impulse, is unable to think beyond that particular idea. I've long suspected them to be the obsessive-compulsive sort who once a thought/impulse enters a region of their brain, they are incapable of any subsequent rational thought beyond whatever it is that is on their mind. Not to different from a cat that just had it's hair disturbed.
Why should the Japan quake of 2011 be more cosmically divine origin that the Tokyo quake of 1923 which killed over 100K. Why wasn't the Tunguska explosion of 1908 a sign of the end times while the Japan earthquake is? On and on one could go with this.