Our best protection vs restless planet

SCIENTISTS tell us that it was probably just a coincidence that four major earthquakes – one in Myanmar, two in Japan (which included a volcanic eruption as a completely unnecessary bonus), and one in Ecuador – all occurred within days of each other.

We at The Manila Times are willing to take the scientists’ word for it, but we see no harm in the public’s imagining they are witnessing a chain of events rather than a coincidental collection of individual ones.