"it's in the news because the media plays lip service to end of the-worlders these days, because they have somehow made themselves loud enough by hijacking a major political party.
it is all very, very normal. yet idiots would use this to say that god is angry with us b/c of the economy."
Idiots would say it's in the news because the media plays lip service to end-of-days types.
A 5.9 quake on the east coast - felt by millions of people over hundreds of miles - is news, period.
The crap you inserted about the media and political parties - it's all just food for talk show morons.