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It appears that the impact events / extinction events are happening roughly every 65-70 million years. You have the Chuxulub event (the KT dinausor killer), the impact swarm 130 million years ago, the Triasic extinction 195 million years ago, the "great dying" 260 million years ago at the end of the Permian and beginning of the Triasic. Beginning to see a pattern? This is close to double the periodicity of our solar system's passing through the galactic plane, which occurs about every 35 million years (we are currently going 7 km/s in the direction of galactic "north"). that would indicate that there's something bad that happens every time we pass from south of the plane of our galaxy to north of it, but it doesn't seem to affect us as much when we go north to south. I wonder what the heck that means.

My great theory is that we have times of more... stuff, yeah, stuff... and times of less stuff. Right now, we're entering into a time of more stuff. This affects not just natural disasters, such as impacts or volcanoes, but I also believe that it affect life, such as us, in the way we act and interact. And when the stuff hits the fan, as it is doing now in human events, we will also see great upheavels in natural events. More impacts, more volcanoes, more hurricanes, more wars, etc. It is a general increase in energy, increase in entropy, increase in... stuff.

Now, the question is, do you have your stuff together, or is it time to duck, cause the stuff is running downhill, straight at us?

I read many years ago that it was every 83 million.

"My great theory is that we have times of more... stuff, yeah, stuff... and times of less stuff. "

There do seem to be cycles (Maybe celestial cycles?). Some of the cycles are so far apart that we have not noticed them yet.