Depending upon where you are in the fractal you could grow or shrink.
I wonder if geologic events obey a fractal timeline. Random events do not seem as likely as a fractal inevitability.

Earthquakes & eruptions may want to be fractal but certain jams in faults lock up a shift in land masses or magma pools.
What seems like a coincidence could be fractal interactions that have a kind of pattern.
Who knows we might get lucky as global warming gets fatally severe, Yellowstone could erupt causing an Ice Age.

Imagination is fractal.