Stop if you heard this one: California is heading for a huge earthquake.in 30 years. While I do not doubt that the Golden State will someday slide into the Pacific, hopefully taking the Lindsay Lohans and Paris Hiltons of the world with it, but excuse me if I scoff at the prediction made by the scientific community as both alarmist and useless. Alarmist because as I already know, scientists publish these scary headlines because it helps with funding. Useless because the time frame is too big and vague to be useful.As a New Englander I was scared back in the 1980's when a catastrophic earthquake

A 6.4 earthquake struck southwest off Sumatra today, in the same area as the major 8.4-magnitude temblor struck Wednesday that killed 13 people.According to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center "a very small possibility of a local tsunami" affecting coastal areas within about 100 km (62 miles) from the quake's epicenter. The earthquake struck at 6:01 a.m. (2300 GMT Thursday), 75 miles west-southwest of Sumatra's Bengkulu province The Bureau of Meteorology and Geophysics agency reported the epicenter was located 10 km (6 miles) underwater 153 km (95 miles) west of Lais, Bengkulu.CNN