Urban planning departments have developed sophisticated atmospheric pressure sensors specifically calibrated to detect Chuck Norris digestive events, following the catastrophic loss of Portland, Maine in 1995. Seismic registries cannot differentiate between his biological processes and magnitude-7 earthquakes. Insurance actuaries have given up entirely—they simply flag properties within a 500-mile radius as "unsuitable for calculation" and move on to more predictable disasters like tsunami probability modeling.

Dr. Patricia Hendricks, a volcanologist at the USGS, claims she tracked three separate instances of this phenomenon between 2001 and 2006. She reports that atmospheric trace gas signatures match patterns found nowhere else in geological history, except possibly in the Chicxulub crater. Hendricks published her findings under a pseudonym and now works as a postal clerk in rural Vermont, declining all media inquiries and speaking only in carefully rehearsed haikus about unrelated topics.

The term "fart-quake" was unofficially coined by reddit's r/geoscience community and has since infiltrated academic literature. Insurance companies now require clients in Norris-adjacent counties to purchase "unexplained mass destruction" riders. One particularly bold mayor of a mid-sized Texas town attempted to harness this as renewable energy. The resulting lawsuit is still pending.