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Earthquakes - 7/11/2009 2:40:40 AM
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supernova1976
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http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/
Doesn't this fasinate and terrify everyone all at once? I am so afraid of earthquakes, I would rather live through a tornadoe lol. But in looking at this, in this day and age we can actually on our own access all the earthquakes that have taken place. God said there would be earthquakes in various places during the last days and look what is happening. China just had a 6.0 too. This is amazing to be able to witness how God's Prophecies are coming true and to think in this world he created me- ME? this person that for wathever reason he placed here for a purpose I don't understand but only he truly does. Whever I think that I am not important I think of the fact that I actually exist and see how much he must have loved me. What more do we need in life than that? a God that made us. Wow. A God that placed me on the earth during a time where as an adult and as a mother I would witness these very things. All the days I have walked with him are becoming this beautiful story- it is like I am saying to him right now- "So you were there this whole time? every night I cried myself to sleep and I felt comfort it was you Lord? it was you even before I knew that chapter titles of your word- The Holy Bible/ then it was you who kept me alive when I wanted to die- it was you Lord."
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RE: Earthquakes - 7/11/2009 2:53:37 AM
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I have to play opposition for a sec, but not because I completely disagree with you. Just how my critical thinking skills work! I want to read the "signs of the times" correctly.
Is there an actual increase in the number of Earthquakes happening? Or, is that just a false perception because we are actually able to RECORD and witness more of them? In other words, say the globe has been averaging 100 EQs over a 7.0 every year, but due to technological restrictions, only 5 were recorded and reported. However, as technology improved and information was able to be shared instantaneously, we now hear about 90 of these EQs. There wasn't actually any net increase, we are just hearing about more.
Make sense? Just curious.
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RE: Earthquakes - 7/11/2009 3:15:47 AM
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I have no clue lol- I am pretty ignorant when it comes to this stuff. I lived through the 1994 Northridge Earthquake in California and that was very scary. I just know that God said there will be earthquakes in various places and that is what terrifies me. I might have to go through that again. I guess your right, we do have the ability to view them more. But either way, I find it fasinating that our knowledge has increased to what it has.
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RE: Earthquakes - 7/11/2009 10:12:54 AM
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I would have to research but as I remember the frequencies of earthquakes is increasing over historically data. Of course that precludes those times of which we have no data.
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RE: Earthquakes - 7/11/2009 8:30:33 PM
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One of the Science programs, a while back, stated that cat-4 and greater has a definite increase, number, and magnitude. Cat-1 through 3 are also increased, but somewhat attributable to better seismograph equipment.
Wear your rubber souled  shoes folks. They are easier to run in. Jellystone is the place I am concerned about. I hear the land is raising, and that the geysers are a bit temperamental lately. Give me a tornado, any day.
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RE: Earthquakes - 7/11/2009 10:21:39 PM
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Robert_G
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Scientific fact and observation says earthquakes have been increasing for at least a millenium. The sources for this information are quite large, and you'll find little opposition to this being stated as reliable information.
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RE: Earthquakes - 7/11/2009 11:10:05 PM
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ORIGINAL: ManimalX
I have to play opposition for a sec, but not because I completely disagree with you. Just how my critical thinking skills work! I want to read the "signs of the times" correctly.
Is there an actual increase in the number of Earthquakes happening? Or, is that just a false perception because we are actually able to RECORD and witness more of them? In other words, say the globe has been averaging 100 EQs over a 7.0 every year, but due to technological restrictions, only 5 were recorded and reported. However, as technology improved and information was able to be shared instantaneously, we now hear about 90 of these EQs. There wasn't actually any net increase, we are just hearing about more.
Make sense? Just curious.
look at the increase from 2000-08
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/massive-increase-earthquakes-2008-0
< Message edited by Psalm30 -- 7/11/2009 11:16:15 PM >
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RE: Earthquakes - 7/11/2009 11:54:40 PM
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Jellystone is the place I am concerned about. I hear the land is raising, and that the geysers are a bit temperamental lately. Give me a tornado, any day.
Agreed. The last time the Yellowstone caldera blew it put over 100x as much ash in the air as did Mt St Helens when it blew a few years back. The entire area of what we now call Nebraska had over 6 ft of ash fall on it.
And it is past due for another big blow.
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RE: Earthquakes - 7/12/2009 1:04:50 AM
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ORIGINAL: Psalm30
look at the increase from 2000-08
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/massive-increase-earthquakes-2008-0
Greetings,
Thanks for the link, but it is basically the exact same question as the OP here. Sure, there is a "hockey-stick" graph, showing a sharp curve as it moves from 1900 to 2008. However, there is no data from the link you provided that accounts for the technological advancements in seismology over the past decade. If I remember my earth science correctly, it used to be very hard to detect and record small earthquakes under a certain magnitude (3.0, it seems to me?). Now we have equipment that can sense much lower. Also, there are many more seismographs and other equipment being installed around the world every year.
So, my point still remains: it is possible that frequency of earthquakes is just as it always has been, and we are only now able to notice most of them. If you have any studies that take this into account, I would love to read them, because I would love nothing more than to have "signs of the times" verified.
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RE: Earthquakes - 7/12/2009 2:54:17 PM
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quote:
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ORIGINAL: Psalm30
look at the increase from 2000-08
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/massive-increase-earthquakes-2008-0
Greetings,
Thanks for the link, but it is basically the exact same question as the OP here. Sure, there is a "hockey-stick" graph, showing a sharp curve as it moves from 1900 to 2008. However, there is no data from the link you provided that accounts for the technological advancements in seismology over the past decade. If I remember my earth science correctly, it used to be very hard to detect and record small earthquakes under a certain magnitude (3.0, it seems to me?). Now we have equipment that can sense much lower. Also, there are many more seismographs and other equipment being installed around the world every year.
So, my point still remains: it is possible that frequency of earthquakes is just as it always has been, and we are only now able to notice most of them. If you have any studies that take this into account, I would love to read them, because I would love nothing more than to have "signs of the times" verified.
hello,
did u actually read the graph? these are for only big earthquakes in 6-8 magnitude range and in one area called the pacific rim.
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RE: Earthquakes - 7/12/2009 3:07:16 PM
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Well we can definitely say that the over the last 100 years the increase is significant.
Likely what Christ is saying in Matt 24 is there will be significant (major) earthquakes around the world and in particular in and around the Middle East.
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RE: Earthquakes - 7/12/2009 5:10:59 PM
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Jellystone is the place I am concerned about. I hear the land is raising, and that the geysers are a bit temperamental lately. Give me a tornado, any day.
Agreed. The last time the Yellowstone caldera blew it put over 100x as much ash in the air as did Mt St Helens when it blew a few years back. The entire area of what we now call Nebraska had over 6 ft of ash fall on it.
And it is past due for another big blow.
Dave, Shalom.
My point, exactly. Six feet of ash in my yard, and house, is not a desirable option,  and would cover far more than my yard, like five states. Fresh ash don't grow diddly squat.
ManimalX, you may be right about the number of 'small' earthquakes, but, if my memory still functions at all, the quakes over 7-Richter, being something like 10 or 11, something in that area, all but two have been in the past decade, whatever the number. To me, coward that I am, that is something I pay attention to.
If there is no problem, then we 'chicken-little's,' will take our Psycho-lumps later on. But somewhere in the Bible it says that if a person knows a danger, or something like that, and don't tell, he will receive many lashes. The person who don't know, can't tell, but will receive few lashes (IMO, because he should have known). He who knows, and tells, gets off Scott-free. No lashes is far more desired than even one. 
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RE: Earthquakes - 7/12/2009 6:34:57 PM
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Showing my ignorance again.
When I first starting to read my King James version, long before some of you were born, my book said "divers" places. I took that to mean diverse places, or earthquakes in unusual areas.
Now I read and hear 'various' places used in now a day Bibles as an interpretation of the same.
Which to me, gives a different meaning and could mean just any old earthquake any where.
I still take note when we read or hear of earthquakes in places that are not in the usual and expected areas.
I've always wondered about this change. Any thoughts?
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RE: Earthquakes - 7/12/2009 7:15:00 PM
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Hi, I looked up Diverse in the dictionary and it reads = Diverse, or Divers [Archaic of the same] meaning Many and different or various. Just thought it might help :)
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RE: Earthquakes - 7/12/2009 10:09:41 PM
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Thanks Sonic,
You did what I was too lazy to do. I guess there is no real change in the meaning. I've got too good of an imagination. Got to watch that! lol
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