I do think the rules said: You can have personal comments as a part of a related post, but no completely off-topic postings please.

Anything earth related or earth changes realted is fair game... any geo phenomena, weather stuff, astronomical stuff, not just quakes..

And the occasional OT is fine, as we've had when these earth related things are slow, just label it as such in the subject and don't get carried away. If it's clearly labeled, then we can choose to read it or not.

Canie