Birth Pangs for Earth

We seldom write about all the earthquakes because they seem to be happening every day. But has anyone noticed that in the past week we have a 1000 yr flood in Fargo (never happened in history of man), a freak tornado in Greece and a volcano erupting in Alaska and Russia, while the earth continues to shake in Yellowstone? How many strange things can happen all at once before the inhabitants of planet earth realize that the earth itself is groaning?