" 11 The LORD said, "Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by."
Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake."-1 Kings 19
Creation?
PROOF of CREATION
"Logical PROOF for creation for Atheists. VIDEO CREDIT: aTHEISTnotanAtheist on YouTube ::::::::::::::::Tags: Earth Science Creation Evolution Natural Selection Physics Darwin Fossils Geology Biology God Bible Atheist Savation Richard Dawkins"
How The Mountains Formed
"This video talks about the theory of Continental Shift. More specifically, the video explains how certain land formations that have traditionally been thought of as taking millions of years to form could have taken only a matter of months or even days if they were formed by a devastating Flood. Did someone say Noah? "
Earthquakes
Experts puzzled by undersea quakes
"There have been over 600 quakes in 10 days 150 miles off the Oregon coast. After this video document was made, a volcano went off in Columbia and an unusual earthquake of a magnitude 5.2 happened in the Midwest which was felt over a large area."
"...The Scriptures say that Abraham looked and saw "the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace" and does not seem to mention a quaking, but does use the Hebrew term for "overturning" in Deuteronomy 29:23. Possibly this is an indication that the earthquake proposal is valid. Changes of elevation of up to 164 feet have been noted which caused a change in direction of the Wadi Numeria at the site, which is believed to be the event that caused the destruction. Also found were evidences that the residents hastily fled the site and buried skeletons of those who were caught in the destruction..."
"Tubb excavated a site called Tell es-Sa'idiyeh, north of the Dead Sea. He found evidence of an early olive oil factory, showing how sophisticated life had become, even in these ancient times. Tubb believes the early Bronze Age was the only time that towns matching the descriptions of Sodom and Gomorrah could have existed at all.
So were there big earthquakes in the early Bronze Age? According to American forensic anthropologist Professor Mike Finnegan, the answer is yes. He has examined the skeletons of three men discovered at the early Bronze Age site of Numeira near the Dead Sea. From the way their bones were broken, he concluded that they were crushed to death - possibly because an earthquake brought down a stone tower on top of them. Carbon dating put the date of the tower's beams at 2350 BC - the early Bronze Age..."
"..Two geologists think they know how the infamous biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed. Graham Harris and Tony Beardow argue in the Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology that the land near the Dead Sea on which the cities may have stood literally liquefied in an earthquake, swallowing them up ca. 1900 B.C. A similar event, in which loosely packed, waterlogged soils liquefy under seismic force, destroyed an area of nearly 30,000 square miles in China in 1920."
*see California * Homosexuality
10 mins before the 2008 Sichuan earthquake in China
" May 13, 2008 (Less info)
Bizarre glowing cloud phenomenon in the sky was observed about 10 mins before the May 12, 2008 Sichuan earthquake took place. This was recorded in Meixian, Shaanxi province ~550km northeast of epicenter. The phenomenon was said to last for about 1 min.
source: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_cb00XMjc..." 30 mins before the 2008 Sichuan earthquake in China, from youtube.com ". This was recorded in Tianshui, Gansu province ~450km northeast of epicenter, by someone using a cell phone.
source: http://news.qq.com/a/20080513/004283.htm.."
*see China
LOCAL
I've heard earthquake stories of Morris, which really suprised me. In fact, Morris is located an hour from the continental divide, which is the reason for our earthquake prone area. The most recent earthquake was back in June of 1993 and the last one before this was in 1973:
USGS: Earthquake Hazards Program: Largest Earthquake in Minnesota
Western Minnesota
1975 07 09 14:54:21.3 UTC
Magnitude 5.0
Intensity VI .
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In the 141 years since 1860, Minnesota has recorded 18 earthquakes, more than half of them during the last 35 years. Most of Minnesota's earthquakes occur along a line that runs from the southwest to the northeast through Ortonville, Morris, Alexandria, Staples and Nisswa. This area is part of the Great Lakes Tectonic Zone, which, along with the Yellow Medicine Shear Zone, was formed more than 2 billion years ago. They are called zones instead of faults because the exact location is hard to pin down, but runs in about a 30-mile wide band situated on the basis of earthquakes that have occurred in the past."-Glaciers, Ecosystems, and Earthquakes-Yellow Pages
"one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in the contiguous United States, occurred on February 7, 1812. It got its name from its primary location in the New Madrid Seismic Zone, near New Madrid, Louisiana Territory (now Missouri).
This earthquake was preceded by three other major quakes: two on December 16, 1811, and one on January 23, 1812. These earthquakes destroyed approximately half the town of New Madrid. There were also numerous aftershocks in the area for the rest of that winter.
There are estimates that the earthquakes were felt strongly over 50,000 square miles (130,000 km²), and moderately across nearly one million square miles. The historic San Francisco earthquake of 1906, by comparison, was felt moderately over 6,000 square miles (16,000 km²)."
"People don’t often think of Illinois and California as two peas in a pod, whether culturally, politically, economically or demographically. But a rattling reminder came early this morning that deep down below the surface (say, six miles deep), they do have something big in common geologically: Both states are earthquake country.
At 4:36 a.m. Central daylight time, a quake of magnitude 5.2 (revised from an initial 5.4) struck the southeastern part of the state, centered five miles from Bellmont, a tiny farm town close to the Wabash River, which marks the border with Indiana. ..
Update | Noon Eastern time
As many people are pointing out in the comment thread below, a second shock struck in almost the same location at 10:14 a.m. Central time. This one was somewhat weaker — 4.6 magnitude — but was still felt over a wide area. Many smaller aftershocks have also been recorded.
On the damage front, the Associated Press has word of a collapsed porch on a house in Mount Carmel and some fallen masonry in West Salem, but no reports of injuries. That’s about what you’d expect from a quake of this size."
5.2 Earthquake strikes Central Illinois????
"A 5.2 earthquake strikes Central Illinois around 4:37am Friday April 18, 2008. This is very rare to happen in the Midwest."
"FREE eNovel -- I would like to send you a free copy of one of my novels. All I ask is that you email your local public or school library and request that they purchase my two mystery novels: The Healing Place by Joe C. Ellis ISBN-13: 978-0979665516 Murder at Whalehead by Joe C. Ellis ISBN-13: 978-0979665509 Just copy and paste the above info into the email you send to the library. Then email me at joecellis@comcast.net and let me know which of the two eNovels you would like me to send you. Thanks for you help! Joe C. Ellis I wrote this song a couple of weeks ago. Joel 2:30-31. "I will display wonders in the sky and on the earth, Blood, fire and columns of smoke.The sun will be turned into darkness And the moon into blood Before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes." "Red Moon on the Rise" -- an original song by Joe C. Ellis copyright 2008. This song is about the end times, which may be during our life time. Here are the lyrics: RED MOON'S ON THE RISE Looking out my window at a world that's gone wrong, Dark clouds passing over, and the night's coming on. Hearts are growing colder, and violence fills our eyes. The Beast is getting bolder, Red moon's on the rise Chorus: Red Moon's on the rise, Earthquakes shake the land. Stars fall from the skies, Tumbling from God's hand. The Devil has his day. That comes as no surprise. So choose the narrow way. Red Moon's on the rise. The blood of a thousand flows from one suicide. In the name of heaven the gates of hell open wide. They say at Armageddon, almost everybody dies. Is that where we are headin'? Red moon's on the rise. Chorus: Red Moon's on the rise, Earthquakes shake the land. Stars fall from the skies, Tumbling from God's hand. The Devil has his day. Don't listen to the lies, And choose the narrow way. Red Moon's on the rise. If you liked the song, please check out my novels at www.amazon.com: 1. The Healing Place--Prequel to Murder at Whalehead"
A co-worker of mine had a dream of an earthquake that may have been caused by bombs (maybe nuclear) along a stretch from Alaska-Minnesota-Pennsylvania-Savanah, Georgia-Arizona. He shared this with me last week (September 2005)
As I write this I remember another co-worker shared an interesting insight with all these oil drilling. Can all this oil drilling directly affect increasing earthquakes?
GLOBAL
earthquakes are increasing in world
"earthquake here in uk recently was 5.3 (Added: 03-24-2008)
-Sri Lanka
Orphans in Sri Lanka Saved From Tsunami by the Hand of God
"When the tsunamis hit there was much devastation but in the story, reported by CNN, a man talks about how God delivered him and some orphan children from the storm."
Floods
Matthew 7
"This is the classical story of the man, who built his house on the rock, and how he showed great wisdom. Contrasted with the foolish man who built his house on the sand and it did not withstand the storms and the floods, and great was the fall of it."
" There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare [children] to them, the same [became] mighty men which [were] of old, men of renown.
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And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually.
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And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
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And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
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But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD."-Genesis 6:4-8
"[Who] laid the foundations of the earth, [that] it should not be removed for ever.
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Thou coveredst it with the deep as [with] a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
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At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
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They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.
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Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
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He sendeth the springs into the valleys, [which] run among the hills.
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They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.
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By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, [which] sing among the branches.
He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works."-Psalm 104 5-13
GLOBAL
Worst Floods in Mexico's History
"80% of the Mexican state of Tabasco is underwater. Streets have become canals. Pastureland has become floodplains. Farmland has become island. In the midst of this unprecedented disaster, Operation Blessing has teamed up with Centro Cristiano, one of the largest churches in Villahermosa. They are distributing survival kits to help flood victims get through the next few days and weeks. More importantly, they have worked to install four water purification systems, delivering up to 10,000 gallons of clean drinking water per day."
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Hi - I actually lived in Morris, MN in the early-mid 1990's when there was some earthquake in the area. I also studied Geology at that time at the Univ. of Minnesota in Morris.
There are actually several faults throughout Minnesota. Check out page 3 of this publication for a map: http://www.morris.umn.edu/earthquakes/gl…
There's a larger version here: http://www.morris.umn.edu/earthquakes/ep…
You can also see the faults on this map: http://www.morris.umn.edu/earthquakes/Im…
Both of these came from this site: http://www.morris.umn.edu/earthquakes/in…
Dr. Peter Whelan has passed away, so you won't be able to contact him as the previous poster suggested.
Also check out this site: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/stat…
Most of the Earthquakes in Minnesota occur along an area called the "Great Lakes Tectonic Zone". Here's a map of the zone: http://www.winona.edu/geology/MRW/mrwima…
This zone is the result of two different plates colliding about 2.6 billion years ago (early Pre-Cambrian). One plate was a land mass about 3.6 billion years old and the other was about 2.7 billion years ago. A good explanation is here:
http://www.morris.umn.edu/academic/geolo…
If you need more info try googling "Great Lakes Tectonic Zone"
Good luck"
"We who live along Montana's Yellowstone River are downstream from a simmering volcanic caldera, a geologic hot spot that has become especially active recently. Indeed, Yellowstone National Park contains the floor of a gigantic volcanic cauldron, one that rises and sinks with the forces that lie beneath — hence the picturesque geysers and steam holes. But a wave of recent earthquake activity is raising fears that have their origins 642,000 years ago — when a Yellowstone "supervolcano" exploded so violently that it created the caldera itself. Such an explosion — 1,000 times more powerful than the explosion of Mount St. Helens in 1980 — today would not only cover most of the United States with ash but throw so much dust into the atmosphere that the world's climate could change.
Could the current activity be the warning signs of another such apocalypse? Or just a large, but not world-ending earthquake, like the 7.5 on the Richter scale temblor that happened on a summer night in 1959, causing a mountain to slide down into a campground, killing 28 people and damming the Madison river?
Last week, geologists at the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO) annouced that they had recorded "a notable swarm of earthquakes underway since Dec. 26 beneath Yellowstone Lake." The strongest tremor among the hundreds in the last week measured 3.9 on Dec. 27; most of the readings above 2.8 were felt by park employees and visitors around the lake area. The activity relaxed in magnitude early this week but then flexed upward again to top the 3.0 scale by early New Year's eve. "This December 2008 earthquake sequence is the most intense in this area for some years," YVO reported, "and is centered on the east side of the Yellowstone caldera," the ancient collapsed volcano beneath Yellowstone Lake. The scientists said they cannot immediately "identify any causative fault or other feature without further analysis." (See a gallery of recent volcanic eruptions.)
This activity could have a whole range of consequences. In a study released last year, the United States Geological Survey said possible hazards could include hydrothermal explosions, when steam breaks through the surface and forms a crater. That has happened 26 times in the park's 127 years of record-keeping. The USGS discounted chances for cataclysmic eruption of the caldera, noting that the hot, active magma chamber below Yellowstone has turned into "largely crystallized mush." But the same study also said: "Depending on the nature and magnitude of a particular hazardous event and the particular time and season when it might occur, 70,000 to more than 100,000 persons could be affected; the most violent events could affect a broader region or even continent-wide areas."
Jake Lowenstern, Ph.D.,YVO's chief scientist, who also is part of the USGS Volcano Hazards Team, told TIME that it doesn't appear a supervolcano event is imminent. "We don't think the amount of magma exists that would create one of these large eruptions of the past," he said. "It is still possible to have a volcanic eruption comparable to other volcanoes. But we would expect to see more and larger quakes, deformation and precursory explosions out of the lake. We don't believe that anything strange is happening right now." Last summer, YVO installed new instrumentation in boreholes 500 to 600 feet deep to better detect ground deformation. Says Lowenstern: "We have a lot more ability to look at all the data now." (See an interactive graphic depicting how scientists monitor volcanoes.)
The Yellowstone Caldera — formed by the massive upheaval 642,000 years ago that spread airborne debris all the way to the Gulf of Mexico — is nowhere close to being extinct. Areas of the park's topography inflate like a bellows because of magma infusing into volcanic chambers about six miles below the surface. About 1,000 to 2,000 tremors a year — mostly small — have been recorded since 2004, when interpretation of satellite imagery with GPS readings indicated the caldera has been rising as much as three inches a year. The past week's number of tremors — about 400 — is considered unusual.
The 1991 explosion of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines was the largest eruption in recent memory and its effects on the atmosphere are still being measured. The 1883 eruption of Indonesia's Krakatoa led to a global cooling and the deadly winter of 1886-87 that wiped out the short-lived, open-range cattle bonanza of Montana Territory. In 2000, Ken Wohletz, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, postulated that an even bigger Krakatoa eruption in sixth-century A.D. may have sent a tall plume of vaporized seawater into the atmosphere, causing formation of stratospheric ice clouds with superfine hydrovolcanic ash, which literally cast a pall over much of the world at the beginning of what became known as the Dark Ages.
YVO's alert code for the Yellowstone caldera stands at green, but if it ever elevates to yellow or red based on seismic readings, Lowenstern says, "ultimately it's my reponsibility to put out alerts. The National Park Service and local officials would be reponsible for civil defense measures and evacuation plans. For now, life goes on. The system is generally automated, and a seismologist at the University of Utah is on call to make sure it's a real event, should it be anything unusual."
This time of year, Yellowstone is a land of dramatic, fire-and-ice contrasts, with hissing, boiling water heated in chambers far below shooting clouds of steam out over a sub-zero, snowy alpine landscape, where bison and elk find warm patches of open ground to browse. We who live here, it has been said, do so at the mercy of geology. In much of the West, with its long seismic faults and Yellowstone-centered hot spots, it is for humans a sublimely tenuous co-existence with the Earth's fickle tectonic temperaments.
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Old Faithful Geyser Eruption YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK 2008
"Old Faithful Geyser Full 5 Minute Eruption at the Upper Geyser Basin in YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK July 2008 "
Crystal Geyser - Healing, Wealth-Giving Water
"The "super-eruption"... Crystal Geyser - Near Green River, UT... a rare, cold, carbon dioxide powered geyser. This eruption went on to last approximately 2 hours. We were told that every thir eruption lasts for two hours. The ones in-between last for twenty minutes. "
"Based on the classic Jules Verne novel of the same name, Journey to the Center of the Earth stars Mummy actor Brendan Fraser as a science professor whose untraditional hypotheses have made him the laughing stock of the academic community. But on an expedition in Iceland, he and his nephew stumble on a major discovery that launches them on a thrilling journey deep beneath the Earth's surface, where they travel through never-before-seen worlds and encounter a variety of unusual creatures.
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The Eyjafjallajokull (ay-yah-FYAH-lah-yer-kuhl) volcano continues to produce spectacular visual effects. Photographers have captured images of lightning, seemingly erupting directly from the volcano. The bolts may look like Hollywood special effects, but they're very much the real deal. No CGI required. But as LiveScience reports, they're also still a "bit of a mystery."...
Iceland Evauates Hundreds, Volcano Erupts Again
"April 14, 2010 — Hundreds of people in southern Iceland had to be evacuated as a volcano erupted under a glacier again, triggering floods. No lives or property were in immediate danger, but authorities feared another eruption in the future could be worse. (April 14)"
'Survivors of the Haiti earthquake - measuring seven on the richter scale - are struggling to save those still trapped under the rubble. An estimated three million people will need emergency relief as aid organisations make their way to the scene. The Haitian Red Cross predicts an horrific death toll of around 50,000. The global community is doing everything possible to help the survivors. "
History
-2010
Earthquakes Are Frequent in 2010,
Janey Falk
Published March 03, 2010 by: associatedcontent.com "...There is speculation by some that due to the frequency of earthquakes this year combined with the Chilean quake, Mexico, California and Alaska with be hit by serious earthquakes in the near future. Earthquake prediction is nowhere near an exact science but Newsblaze.com has seen fit to issue their own warnings of impending disaster.....
-Earthquake Alert for Mexico, California and Alaska
By Ian Brockwell Published: February 28, 2010
"...If the three plates in the Chile region have moved in an easterly direction, this could allow the Pacific plate to do the same. If this is the case, pressure can be expected along the eastern Pacific and create further quakes in traditionally suspect areas: Mexico, California and Alaska.
Earthquake Alert
Historically, this has happened many times before, although the magnitude of the quakes will probably be less than that seen in Chile.
Whilst there is no guarantee that the Chile quake will trigger others, there is a good chance this will occur within a matter of days, if it happens at all.
Although experts have informed us that earthquake activity is no higher than usual, we only have to look at the quakes recorded in the Pacific area in the last few weeks to see that this is not entirely true. Not all of these are of a dangerous level, but the numbers are very high.
Earthquakes, large and small, are something we have to live with all the time, but it is worrying when the frequency and size of them increase over a short period of time. One can't help feeling that something much worse is imminent. ...
"Amethyst is the purple variety of quartz and is a popular gemstone. If it were not for its widespread availability, amethyst would be very expensive. The name "amethyst" comes from the Greek and means "not drunken." This was maybe due to a belief that amethyst would ward off the effects of alcohol, but most likely the Greeks were referring to the almost wine-like color of some stones that they may have encountered. Its color is unparalleled, and even other, more expensive purple gemstones are often compared to its color and beauty. Although it must always be purple to be amethyst, it can and does have a wide range of purple shades."
*got a sample rock from Black Hills Institute of Geological Research Shoppes
" is the science and study of the solid matter that constitutes the Earth. Encompassing such things as rocks, soil, and gemstones, geology studies the composition, structure, physical properties, history, and the processes that shape Earth's components. It is one of the Earth sciences...."
"Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder and a severe earthquake. No earthquake like it has ever occurred since man has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake."-Revelations 16
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