~ Another earthquake... ~

Seems like disasters come aplenty these days...
Does it come to everyone's minds what all these means?
Or do we just simply dismiss it as something that happens all
the time and doesn't concern 'me'.

Maybe we've all got too much to think about..
but anyway, just an interesting nugget,
was talking to my dad this morning and he touched
on how the oil prices were going up and how this
caused Keppel's stock prices to go up as it seems like
they've recieved lots of orders for their oil rigs and stuff
like that.

He was complaning that just last year the forcasters said that
they're shares were only worth $2++ and now it's at ard $11++.
But anyway, seems like the rise in oil price is causing people to go
out looking for more wells to drill. Probably found some new oil wells too...

Then my dad said that probably all this drilling into the earth,
and sucking out the oil is causing all these earthquakes.
Which might be true... if considering that diggers do not check if the
site they're drilling is near the edge of a 'plate'.

But just think about it... if there's so much oil being taken out,
wouldn't that leave lots of empty spaces? If they were to cave in,
would that not cause certain disruptions to the earth's crust?
I mean i'm sure the earth is trying to balance itself out too right?

Anyway just a ponder... back to mugging...
:(