Few have brought up the point that it may or may not be on topic. Is it?
This subject is covered every year at the American Geophysical Union(http://sites.agu.org/). I would say that if this question is outside the scope of this website, then, planetary science as a whole is off topic.
If we were to break this question into a simpler, general term, it could be:
Are there Earth like events on other planets?