Book: Delirium (Delirium #1)

All of the great events starts with something small. The earthquake destroyed the whole city, emerging from a slight tremor in the earth. Music creates a vibration. Flooding in Portland, which happened after two months of incessant rain, have started with the fact that the docks entered a trickle no wider than a finger. Then, twenty years ago, flooded more than a thousand houses, streams of water carried through the streets as trophies, tires, bags of garbage, old shoes, and then more than one month in the air stank of rot and mold.
And the Lord created the Universe from an atom no bigger than a thought.