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About Earthgasm.com

Many years ago in the early 1980's, I attended a storm chase conference full of "weather weenies" in Asheville, North Carolina. Every evening we would set around talking about chasing tornadoes and the excitement it gave us. Anyone who has been storm chasing or has seen videos of storm chasing knows how crazy chasers get when they see a tornado, high winds, a rotating wall cloud, or large hail stones. In the conversation the phrase "having a 'stormgasm'" was brought up. Thereafter, many of my storm chasing friends used that term. I often thought about getting a web page called "stormgasm.com" but it was taken. (You can visit it at www.stormgasm.com - an excellent web site!).

On the morning of November 14, we were having severe weather across Louisiana. I have several weather computers monitoring many aspects of weather. I also have three seismographs that record earthquakes from around the world. I was watching the storms and all of the colors flashing across the radar screen. The lightning detector was going crazy. The watch/warning map on another computer was flashing causing alert tones to constantly sound. I was in meteorology heaven! Then just before 5:30 AM I glanced at the seismograph screen. It began to go crazy. It was the 8.3 Kuril Islands earthquake that generated a small tsunami in Japan.

I was now in earth science ecstasy! But it was much more than just having a "stormgasm". It was the dynamic earth at its finest! Thunder, lightning, winds, hail, heavy rain, tornadoes, and then....EARTHQUAKE! Wow! I shared the experience with my earth science students later that day discussing the web site. Then one student said, "Why don't you create it?" The rest is now history.

Now please get one's mind out-of-the-gutter. Earthgasm just refers to a state of excitement generated by observing powerful, natural phenomena generated by planet Earth. It might be weather. It might be earthquakes. It might be volcanoes. It might even be tsunamis. If Mother Nature excites you, then this web site. is for you!

Enjoy the web site.!

Don Wheeler
Assistant Professor of Science
Delta Community College
Monroe, Louisiana