Last week it was more hysteria on how New York is due to be destroyed by a hurricane any time now, and this week we're being warned about how the New Madrid fault in Missouri is due for another earthquake, which will destroy the entire industrialized midwest.
Of course, by the time that happens, the bird-flu pandemic will have already wiped out most of the population anyway, so I think I'll just go have a beer.
Given enough time, all these things will indeed happen. For instance, the New Madrid fault appears to have been causing major earthquakes every 100 to 200 years for quite a long time.
We're closing in on 200 years since the last one.