Place your bets...

Mole men, Cthulhu rising, a Jules-Vernean boring machine trying
to return from a Journey to the Center of the Earth, or what?

From the Monday 14 April NBC Nightly News:

    There are troubling rumblings in the Pacific Northwest
    tonight.  The U.S. Geological Survey is re****ting there
    have been over six hundred small quakes in Oregon over
    the last ten days, many of them out at sea.  Scientists
    say they sound like nothing they've ever heard or
    measured before; they'll continue listening closely.

("It's like nothing we've ever seen before, Captain!")

Long-shot bets: (1) Martian war machines about to emerge from the
ground and attack Tom Cruise (yay!); (2) the lava-dragon equivalent
of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on the last stage of their
heroic climb; or (3) the final phase of a secret WWII Japanese
operation to tunnel under the Pacific and attack the United States
from underneath.

-- 
William December Starr <wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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