TODAY'S CATASTROPHIC EARTHQUAKE: Hmm, any Major Nations overdue for a punishing temblor? China, maybe? Very big country, lots of people, not really smacked down by the 2010 Parade of Death Quakes. So, China it is: "At least 300 people have died and others are trapped under rubble after a magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck China's Qinghai province." UGH this planet. [BBC News]