What’s this?:
The mouth of Hell? No, it’s an overhead radar image of the Icelandic volcano now ruining air travel in Europe. As blogger Stein Sigurddson writes of this anthropomorphic image, “The mind does some great interpolative associative processing ;-)”
Be that as it may, a friend asked me at lunch today if it seemed weird that there was so much seismic activity around the globe this year. I agreed that it did seem like this has been an unusually active seismic year, but we couldn’t decide if we were just paying more attention to earthquakes and volcanos this year, or if it really has been extra busy under the earth’s surface. It’s possible that we are seeing a pattern and imposing meaning on it where one doesn’t exist — like seeing a face in the Icelandic volcano, for example.