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There are only two places in the U.S. where an earthquakecould cause a tsunami on the scale of the one that hit theFar East recently. Studies show that at least one of theseareas is long overdue for a quake and may have one at anytime.

Robin Lloyd writes in LiveScience.com that the Cascadiasubduction zone, running 50 miles up the coast of thePacific Northwest, has experienced four huge earthquakes inthe past 1,600 years, and another big one is overdue.
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The crystal skull in the British Museum in London, one ofonly 13 in the world, has been shown to be a fake.

Steve Connor writes in the Independent that detailedanalysis of the skull’s surface has revealed that it was cutand polished with the kind of rotating wheel that was foundin jewelers in 19th-century Europe.

Historians and scientists now believe that the skull was cutfrom a piece of Brazilian rock crystal by a jeweler inEurope, and then sold as an Aztec object.
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The worst winter storm in decades has thrown northern Europeinto chaos and caused at least 14 deaths, while a fierce”Pineapple Express” has brought record rain and snowfall half a world away toCalifornia, and caused at least 7 deaths.

Parts of the Sierra Nevada, an area noted for intensesnowfalls, have not seen such snow in 90 years, and the next24 hours promises to add another 3 feet to the twenty feetthat have always fallen over the past week in higher elevations.

Seven people have been killed in southern California, houseshave collapsed into canyons throughout the area, and majorroadways have been closed by landslides and snows. Amtrak’sCalifornia Zephyr was stranded overnight in the notoriousDonner Pass. The train had to back up to Sacramento.
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According to NOAA, the number of tornadoes in 2004 set arecord. In September, the U.S. usually has an average of 47tornadoes, but this year we had 247!

We?d better build tornado shelters?or learn toleave ourbodies!

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