Today (Mar 5, 2010), the US Geological Survey reported that a strong earthquake with the magnitude of 6.5 struck off the southwest coast of Sumatra, in Indonesia, causing panic, but no threat of a tsunami.  Haiti,  Japan, Chile, Taiwan and now Sumatra, and a second strong earthquake this week  Well, what is going on with this? Is the earth collapsing? No, not according to scientists.

Scientists at the US Geological Survey tells us that earthquakes happen everyday. Most are minor. Most of the strong ones do not happen in populated areas, so they go unnoticed by the public. And that earthquakes do not occur at random places on the planet, but on geological fault lines. So, unless we live on or near one of those fault lines,  we don't have to worry that we will be waken from our sleep, by our shaking house, during an earthquake. Scientists are also saying that we should expect many more earthquakes this year.