The earth is not asleep. Sometimes just a few days before a "biggie" one will hear an inexpiable 'BANG!', like a large, heavy can of something falling to the floor. But there's nothing there. During and after the 9.2 quake of March 1964 we heard huge snow slides and avalanches over on the Wrangell Mountains. We have white northern lights in the Copper Valley, like shifting curtains. Was it an arc or a straight line?