The world is a turbulent thing, there have always been great natural disasters.
There were severe earthquakes hundreds of years ago, thousands even. Floods, cyclones, locust swarms, volcanic eruptions. You name it.
Earth is unstable, nothing is certain. The only reason these current disasters are getting any press is because people are now associating it with the whol 2012 doomsday nonsense. And they forget that there wasn't a doomsday theory hundreds of years ago, but there were still natural disasters.
There were severe earthquakes hundreds of years ago, thousands even. Floods, cyclones, locust swarms, volcanic eruptions. You name it.
Earth is unstable, nothing is certain. The only reason these current disasters are getting any press is because people are now associating it with the whol 2012 doomsday nonsense. And they forget that there wasn't a doomsday theory hundreds of years ago, but there were still natural disasters.