I completely agree on the lightning... Initially I wanted to make the earthquake area look like bullet holes, like someone had shot through the upper background area and revealed the background. I like your idea for using explosions, etc... I am relatively new to photoshop so I will play around and watch some tutorials to see what I can come up with.
Yeah I rendered that entire text at the same time in the 3D area, I imagine I could break it up into 2 text objects and make the subscribe to text smaller, I agree that it's too large.
Thanks for the input.