Boobquake - 36DD on the Richter scale

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An Iranian cleric's claim that showing skin by women causes earthquakes was almost proved to be true, after Taiwan experienced a temblor coinciding with women across the globe baring their breasts in defiance, a media report said Tuesday. The cleric Kazem Sedighi had said on April 12, 'Many women who do not dress modestly... lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes.'

To show how irrational such statements can be Jen McCreight of www.BlagHag.com, “a liberal, geeky, nerdy, scientific, perverted atheist feminist trapped in Indiana”, kick-started Boobquake, for which over 200,000 women across the world, including from Iran, registered on the Facebook event 'Boobquake'.

Coincidentally, a tremor measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale, hit Taiwan on Monday, though it caused very little damage, like, buildings swayed briefly but none fell and there were no casualties, and a landslide over a three-lane highway, burying three cars.

She said, 'I don't want people to force themselves to dress more immodestly than they feel comfortable. But if you want to wear a low-cut shirt or some shorts, whatever you like. And we're going to see if we actually cause more or more severe earthquakes today.’

According to Wikipedia 'There are around 500,000 earthquakes each year, 100,000 of these can actually be felt and minor earthquakes occur nearly constantly around the world in places like California and Alaska in the U.S., as well as in Guatemala, and, Chile, Peru, Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, the Azores in Portugal, Turkey, New Zealand, Greece, Italy, and Japan, but earthquakes can occur almost anywhere, including New York City, London, and Australia. Given such frequent occurrence of quakes, and the number of quakes from 6.0 to 6.9 account for about 37% of all quakes, linking the dress-styles of women to earthquakes is irrational.