Earthquake sync

During a break between classes, I was working on my very long (and still unfinished) post trying to reconstruct the hypothetical 1 Zenos document from quotations and allusions in various parts of the Book of Mormon and Bible. When I stopped to teach my evening class (7:50-9:20), I had just been writing about Samuel the Lamanite's Zenos-influenced prediction of an earthquake and other phenomena at the death of Jesus:

Yea, at the time that he shall yield up the ghost there shall be thunderings and lightnings for the space of many hours, and the earth shall shake and tremble; and the rocks which are upon the face of this earth, which are both above the earth and beneath, which ye know at this time are solid, or the more part of it is one solid mass, shall be broken up; yea, they shall be rent in twain, and shall ever after be found in seams and in cracks, and in broken fragments upon the face of the whole earth, yea, both above the earth and beneath. And behold, there shall be great tempests, and there shall be many mountains laid low, like unto a valley, and there shall be many places which are now called valleys which shall become mountains, whose height is great. And many highways shall be broken up, and many cities shall become desolate (Hel. 14:21-24).

I then went to the classroom and opened up the textbook to today's grammar lesson, where I saw this:

Grammatical rules are illustrated using examples about an earthquake, including "The road cracked open" -- with an illustration of a road doing just that -- and "the ground was shaking," so I thought that was a bit of a coincidence.

A further coincidence came several minutes later, at 8:14, when -- while everyone had their books open to that page -- a magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck Taiwan. That's a moderate quake, the kind we experience once a month or so, so no highways were cracking open, but the timing was still rather uncanny.