I don't know. I'll make a few phone calls and find out.
To compare and contrast, here is something said by Chief Rabbi of the British Commonwealth Jonathan Sacks in 2005:
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Natural disasters have no explanation other than that God, by placing us in a physical world, set life within the parameters of the physical. Planets are formed, tectonic plates shift, earthquakes occur, and sometimes – innocent people die. To wish it were otherwise is in essence to wish that we were not physical beings at all. Then we would not know pleasure, desire, achievement, freedom, virtue, creativity, vulnerability and love. We would be angels – God’s computers, programmed to sing His praise.
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Or to put it another way, shit happens.