There was apparently a 6.0 earthquake in Northern California today, and Volcano Bang Bang Boom over in Iceland is threatening to smother the northern hemisphere in ash but, as damaging as these events might be, they are at least natural disasters of a type we understand: fire, flood, hurricane, tsunami, volcano, earthquake, avalanche…there might be a few others on that list.
Golfo de Hermosillo (proposed)
Nobody really knows how bad the Icelandic volcano could be (experts are estimating it at ‘very fucking bad.’), and a 6.0 is nothing to sneeze at, especially if you’re near the epicenter, but Bay Area residents have lived through worse.
As bad as they might be, though, there are people who know about earthquakes and volcanoes, there are emergency responses in place.
The strange holes in the Earth’s surface that have been appearing all over the place, now, there’s another kettle of fish. Of course, sinkholes aren’t even making the news any more, unless they swallow a bus or something. People aren’t paying too much attention to the weird holes that opened up in Siberia, probably because it’s Siberia. Not a lot of people want to live there. In fact, the number who want to live there is probably somewhat less than the number of people who actually live there, and that is not a high number. Then there is the Hermosillo Trench.
The Hermosillo Trench is a hole in the Earth that just opened up the other day, about a kilometer long, about 8 meters deep at the deepest and about 5 meters wide at the widest. It is near Hermosillo, Mexico, which is just a bit inland from the Pacific Coast. A couple of newspaper articles I read said ‘farmland,’ but it sure looks like desert to me.
Some experts are saying quake, some are saying a collapsed river bed. I say, whatever. The question is, what are we going to do about it.
With the Siberian holes, as I wrote once before, the sensible thing to do would be to plant as many plants as possible around the rims, to try and get the methane out of the air the same way that plants everywhere take care of carbon dioxide, or monoxide, I always get those two confused (which is a euphemistic way of saying I don’t know the difference).
With the Golfo do Hermosillo, I would (if I were the town council of Hermosillo) widen it a bit and extend it as far as the ocean. Give yourselves a bit of a recreational area, and a tourist draw. Maybe even set up some shrimp farms.
You know. Lemons. Lemonade.
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