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Why there are earthquakes and tsunamis
This blog is not about the metaphysical reasons why a disaster of earth-changing proportions has happened to the people in the Indian Ocean coastal communities and to thousands of foreigners and tourists who are also dead, missing, devastated by unspeakable loss, and mourning the death of friends, loved ones and the lives they used to know. I would never presume to claim to have such knowledge - no sane person could or would and there is a very good chance that there is either no metaphysical reason for such pain or as many reasons for it as there are people involved in it. Either way, it's too much for words.
However, I do believe that I know the physical reason that earthquakes and the tsunamis they produce happen. This is
CHAPTER ONE
of my Story of the Creation of Life on Earth, the telling of which is a most ancient tradition at New Year's Celebrations.
It is thought that the Earth formed about four and a half billion years ago, as did much of our solar system. Numbers like that are so big that they get small again and don't actually mean very much to me, but that's the scientific thought on the subject.
Now when the large planets of our solar system formed from the cooling of hot gigantic globules of gases, they distributed themselves at distances from the Sun and from each other that can be predicted by an elegant mathematical formula called the Fibonacci ratio. If the Earth was where it is supposed to be and its spinning on an axis that was not inclined 23 degrees, we would have years of 360 days and no change of seasons. But when you look at where the Earth should be according to that ratio, you find the asteroid belt. What happened to make this so?
Here's what happened to bring this about according to the great Zecharia Sitchin's writings about the ancient Sumerian civilization that flourished more than 5,000 years ago in what is now Iraq. Everything that follows in this Creation Story (it's not a Myth) I learned from reading Zecharia Sitchin's amazing series of books, starting with "The Twelfth Planet." You will never have the equal of experiencing the "Ah ha!" feeling that you will get from reading this most important man's books. I highly recommend them.
About four billion years ago, give or take a few million years, the Earth was struck a glancing blow by one of the moons surrounding a rogue planet that had been expelled from another solar system and then "wandered" through space until it had been captured by our Sun's gravitational force. When that happened, it came hurtling through our solar system and that's when Earth got hit by one of this rogue planet's moons.
The force of this blow exploded a large chunk out of the earth, pushing the Earth out of its orbit and away from the Sun and leaving the pieces from that explosion to become the Asteroid Belt that occupies the orbit around the Sun that the Earth used to have.
Now, you are probably wondering if there is any proof about any of this and there is. All you have to do is look at the very amazing map that National Geographic Society made and printed a few years ago showing what the Earth looks like without any of the oceans on it and you will see that it doesn't look like a sphere at all. It looks like an apple that someone has taken a huge bite out of. The edges of that bite are what we now call "The Ring of Fire," the most geologically active areas on Earth, the Pacific Rim, the place where the most of the biggest earthquakes and tsunamis occur and with good reason.
When you look at a globe with the Pacific Ocean facing you, it's easy to see that there's hardly any land visible above the water waterline once you get north of Australia and New Zealand, except for some beautiful islands. But most of these islands rise tremendous distances from the sea floor, a sea floor that is incredibly deep because it is where that bite was taken out of the Earth by the collision with the rogue planet's moon four billion years ago.
Why does the Ring of Fire exist? Why are the various plates that make up the Earth's surface moving against each other and slipping as they do so, resulting in earthquakes? It's quite simple really. The Earth is trying to heal itself. The surface of the Earth was fractured into the various plates by the impact of that moon and for the last four billion years these plates have been moving toward the Pacific, toward each other actually, trying to close up the wound that was opened four billion years ago. And that is why we have the fractured Earth's surface of shifting landmasses, also known as plates, moving and grinding against each other forming Earthquakes and Tsunamis.
How did the ancient Sumerians know this over 5,000 years ago and how do I know it now? Tune in for the next chapter of our New Year's Creation Story and I'll tell you. It gets better and better!
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