Connection between the Killer Quake and Tibet?

In the whole morning, I was concerned with the difficulties of the rescue process, such as heavily rainy weather, highly destroyed road and the debris flows in those mountain area, in the disaster area of the killer quake in China, from news sources of China and NPR.

Among the update news and the personal interviews with the local people from NPR, there was another impressive msg: The NPR journalist in the disaster area said Chinese tend to associate natural disasters with other things, like in 1976 the Tangshan earthquake was widely considered to be linked with the death of Minister Zhou Enlai and later on Chairman Mao Zedong, when the host asked how Chinese people view natural disasters compared with Americans.

And later on, my good friend Robert mentioned something similar and pushed the issue further. The following is the excerpt from his email: 'The question that I have is that the Chinese associate earthquakes with signs that the gods aren't happy. The last major earthquake happened in 1976 2 weeks before Chairman Mao died and the Gang of Four were taken out of power. Then Another big one in the 1920s was right after the Communist reformers were starting to try to recruit people. So, I heard that this quake is associated with Tibet. And the question is: are the Chinese going to take it easy with the Tibet or are we to expect mass executions of Tibetans (somebody suggested that the authorities may try to link the quakes with Dalai Lama).'

I have two points to make about this issue:

First, it is true that Chinese associate natural disasters or natural abnormal phenomenon with human activities. We did link 1976 Tangshan earthquake with the death of important figures and so on, but I don't know the 1920s earthquake had been considered with Communist reformers.
Those karma with natural disasters are really folk and non-governmental though. And in my opinion, Chinese this point of view probably is from two aspects:
a) from the folk stories or drama. One of the most famous ancient dramas, , is one woman, Dou Er, was sentenced to death by murder crime but she was innocent. Before her death, she made three wishes and she said if the wishes came true the Heaven and Terra would prove she is innocent. One of the wishes is it would snow soon after her death and it was mid summer (of course it depends on the location, I am sure if the drama happened in Colorado, she won't make a wish like), another one is her hometown wouldn't get any rain in the next 3 yrs. And in that drama the wishes all came true and at the end there is one good officer rechecked her case and claimed she is innocent. And almost everyone in China knows this story.
b) from lots of aphorism and proverbs that reveal the karma from all kinds of gods to bad guys. 'stand condemned by God' is the translation I found for one of those proverbs.
And in my opinion people create these kinds of karma to the bad individuals, or to the larger group of people from a deeper grievance (like in the drama I mentioned, which I don't think it is fair though) only because they can not find any realistic force to keep the righteousness for them, and people need to grab any kind of hope for justice, no matter how tiny the righteous hope is, to keep living or die with their eyes closed.
So based on my reasoning, the more people rely on the natural force, the weaker people are and the darker the society rules are. This is why that drama is considered to reflect the bad ruling class at that time and the calling from the people for the justice.

Second, I don't think any connection between the earthquake and Tibet, or Dalai Lama would be built or accepted, not mention any further changes on the plans or the actions with Tibetan people from this point of view. Two reasons:
a) as I mentioned earlier, the karma connection is quite folk and non-governmental. And people nowadays talk it much less. No official conclusions have ever been made to link any kind of karma to any natural disasters. And NO official decisions have ever been made based on karma either.
b) just for the record, many Tibetans and other minorities ethical groups are living in one area that is quite close to the center of the earthquake. Even if Dalai Lama did have something to do with the quake, why he hurt his own people? Sacrify fewer Tibetan people to hurt tons of Han people? If I were someone who can control the natural force and I were Dalai Lama, I would let the Beijing rock instead of choosing remote places of Sichuan. Sorry, I know I am too far away from the topic.

In conclusion, this post first reviewed reasons why Chinese associate natural disasters to certain karma. Second, there won't be connection between the quake with Tibet. I haven't heard any Chinese individual or media talked about the connection between the quake and Tibet, and I can not recall any karma talking in the snow disaster early this year in China either.