Eerie Earthquakes

 In this weird world of ours, every eccentricity can be somehow predicted. Except one! Yes, the eerie earthquake! Based on the ocean currents, scientists can predict the el niño and la niña effects on the monsoon cycles. Tsunamis, however, they can not because they are triggered by the quakes.

Sure, our dearest friends, the doggies, do get the sensations somehow, may be, given their sharper auditory/aural abilities. They start wailing pitifully. Just as all the animals can sense a tsunami, and move to higher places fast. That way, we humans, too, have our Baba Venga and Nostradamus, who, incidentally, has predicted a horrible quake in May.

Now, however, geologists, too, have joined such soothsayers. Based on the wave patterns in the water table in Tibet, and given the geological  delamination process, because of which a geological plate gets pulled in to the mantle of the earth, the scientists are predicting a huge earthquake which might divide India in to two, it seems. Some prediction it is, as if the "two nations" notion, rampant since the Partition days, is not enough!

As it is, given the subtle but inevitable process of tectonic plates shifting, a major part of India lies in the Zone 4 and Zone 5 fault lines. In fact, the most sensitive, and hence extremely dangerous Zone 5 has in its radius/ on its radar New Delhi as well as Mumbai, that is, both the capital and the financial center of India. Add to it the delamination process, not to forget the solar surface disturbances! Are we indeed on the threshold of a disaster?

There is no knowing! Geologists are predicting equally eerie processes near the African landmass which may get newer seas, while the ever active Ring of Fire may burn up a huge tragedy in Japan which may experience both a severe earthquake and a huge tsunami.

Well, every Japanese is always prepared every which way. Since school days, every child is trained thus. Here in India, we are busy fighting over the three language formula. True, children initially should transact the whole educational business through the mother tongue. But, here in India, parents themselves do not bother about English being taught at a very tender age, and kids do,  are allowed to, watch cartoons in every possible language! Then why the opposition to Hindi? Is it politically motivated? Are not such linguistic, regional skirmishes a premonition of (a consciously planted/planned?) division of india as per the North versus South fault line?

Anyways, if the earthquake does indeed strike, hope the safer Southern peninsula would rush to help the North that the geologists predict would completely be bifurcated! Though many a politicians and other such petty practitioners of all sorts of differentiations may love such a division, here is praying ardently that it never happens. In the meanwhile, Happy Easter!

Pratima@ Stay safe. Stay informed. Stay prepared. Stay organised. Stay calm. Earthquakes happen!