A few days ago Mexico City held a drill to commemorate the 1985 earthquake that caught the region off guard, killing scores of people. They wanted to remember and they wanted to make sure that this time they were prepared–that after 22 years the city was finally ready.
It wasn’t.
Just two hours after the drills the earth began to move again. 51 meters below the surface the earth shifted. The result was a 7.1 magnitude disaster. The fallout was far worse. Hundreds have died throughout the region and the damage and losses are still being counted as I write this post. Yet as I write this post I have questions. I question the coincidence of the oddly timed 22 year anniversary. I question the fact that no aftershocks were felt anywhere near the epicenter. I question that this 7.1, which follows an 8.1 that hit earlier in the month is not being seen as a trend. The area of the earth in question is known as the Cocos plate and is undergoing subduction to the North American plate. This movement, though slow, is so violent that it triggered a volcano as a result of this past earthquake.
Yet nobody is interested in having that conversation.
Similarly, little is being said about the quake in Westwood, California that resembled an aftershock to the Mexican quake in every way but location. Given this movement and the unusually strong storm season, it stands to reason that the earth is going through some sort of upheaval right now. It could be that there are seaquakes happening as well, triggering additional storms and threatening our extremely fragile cities. Of course, nobody wants to have that discussion unless its happening to characters on the big screen.
Because things like that never happen in real life, right?
Some Thoughts:
- I started here today, because I don’t have anything to say. This isn’t a pregnant pause before profundity strikes or even the flip, an emptiness of thought. I don’t exactly know how to put my thoughts together this morning.
- The thoughts I do have are less profound than conspiratorial.
- I remain completely in love and completely aware that while I will keep the love, the life that should blossom isn’t.
- I think I know what I ought to write about now. As above it is about things that should be simple but aren’t.