Second Banana

Earlier this week, you may remember this post about a fairly sizable earthquake and associated aftershocks rocking Japan.

With all the political hubbub in the air, you may not have realized that a volcano erupted in Ecuador yesterday.

Now I'm no geologist, but as a former archeology student, I became extremely familiar with the sequences of events that result from shifts in the Pacific Plate (the submarine tectonic plate that connects Coastal Lands from Alaska to Hawaii to South America to Japan) and I would venture to guess that we're going to see a lot more activity along the Ring of Fire before the year is out.

Obviously, I have very little scientific evidence to back this assertion, but it's become clear to me that my "feelings" of late are often more accurate than most people's "science".

Now I'm not claiming to have any clairvoyant gifts, I just seem to be drawn to certain topics days and weeks before they become news. And it seemed unusual to me that I even NOTICED this article, because the report comes from half-a-world away from Ecuador, and it seems like the whole world is looking for its next big story from the Middle East, not South America.