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Christians, do you remember the warnings and signs for the end times?

March 6th, 2010 12 comments

This is amazing…we have had many earthquakes of various sizes in just over the last 4 months… Are you ready to endure to the end?
If not, don’t you think it’s time to prepare your heart?
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Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) — Chile was rocked by a magnitude 8.8 earthquake centered 200 miles (317 kilometers) southwest of Santiago near the main winemaking region. Dozens of people were killed and tsunami warnings were issued across the Pacific.

The quake struck at 3:34 a.m. offshore from the province of Maule at a depth of 22 miles (35 kilometers), according to the U.S. Geological Survey Web site. At least 64 people have been killed, Chilean Interior Minister Edmundo Perez told reporters.

“Amid such a major earthquake we can’t rule out that the death toll will rise,” President Michelle Bachelet said at a televised press conference. “We will provide information as soon as we have it.”

Power and phone connections were disrupted and Santiago residents waited in the street amid fears of aftershocks, pictures on CNN+ showed. The quake’s focus was 70 miles north of Concepcion, Chile’s second city, close to the vineyards of the Curico valley. While the world’s largest underground copper mine, El Teniente, is 180 miles from the epicenter, most of the country’s copper deposits are at least 500 miles to the north.

“I’m trying to get in touch with Santiago,” said Gonzalo Cuadra, a London-based executive at Codelco, the world’s biggest copper producer and the owner of El Teniente. “I think in the north there haven’t been problems. We have to see what happened with the mines near Santiago.”

Rio Tinto Group, a shareholder in the world’s largest copper mine, Escondida, located in northern Chile and owned by BHP Billiton Ltd., has had no reports of damage, London- based spokeswoman said Christina Mills said by telephone.

State of Emergency

A state of emergency was declared in Maule and the province of BioBio to the south, where Concepcion is located. A third region, Araucania, south of BioBio and the center of the country’s forestry industry, may also be added, Bachelet said.

In the aftermath of the 90-second quake, the USGS reported 11 aftershocks, of which five measured 6.0 or above.

Heavy waves struck the Chilean coast and the Tsunami Warning Center for Chile and Peru issued alerts that were later extended up the coast as far as Costa Rica and also to Australia and New Zealand, Japan, the Philippines, Russia and island groups including Hawaii, where the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said urgent action should be taken to protect lives.

“This is a major, damaging earthquake,” Randy Baldwin of the USGS told the BBC in an interview. “For any population in the area it would be reasonable to expect some damage.”

Chile was struck by the most powerful earthquake on record in 1960, when a magnitude 9.5 temblor killed about 1,655 people, according to the USGS Web site. A further 211 people died when associated tsunamis struck Hawaii, Japan and the Philippines.

Earlier today, a magnitude 7 earthquake hit near Okinawa, Japan, at about 5:31 a.m. local time, the USGS said.

Last month, Haiti was struck by a magnitude 7 quake. The death toll may reach 300,000, President Rene Preval said Feb. 21. More than 1 million people were left homeless.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a0z0ThTpynDc&pos=8

These earthquakes are nothing in comparison to what will happen in the Tribulation Period. Thankfully I’ll be raptured before all Hell breaks lose!

8.8-magnitude quake rocks Chile ?

March 4th, 2010 4 comments

SANTIAGO, Chile — A massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake capable of tremendous damage struck central Chile early Saturday, shaking the capital for a minute and half and setting off a tsunami.

Buildings collapsed and phone lines and electricity were down, making the extent of the damage difficult to determine. According to Reuters, President Michelle Bachelet said six people were killed and that more deaths were possible.

The quake hit 200 miles southwest of the capital, Santiago, and at a depth of 22 miles at 3:34 a.m. (0634 GMT; 1:34 a.m. EST), the U.S. Geological Survey reported. Its epicenter was just 70 miles from Concepcion, Chile’s second-largest city, where more than 200,000 people live along the Bio Bio river, and 60 miles from the ski town of Chillan, a gateway to Andean ski resorts that was destroyed in a 1939 earthquake.

Buildings shook and collapsed in Santiago. With phone lines down, confirmation of damage was difficult elsewhere, especially further south toward the epicenter. The quake was felt in Argentina as well.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a warning for Chile and Peru, and a less-urgent tsunami watch for Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica and Antarctica.

"Sea level readings indicate a tsunami was generated. It may have been destructive along coasts near the earthquake epicenter and could also be a threat to more distant coasts," the center said.

The U.S. west coast tsunami warning center said it did not expect a tsunami along the west of the U.S. or Canada but was continuing to monitor the situation.

The largest earthquake ever recorded struck the same area of Chile on May 22, 1960. The magnitude-9.5 quake killed 1,655 people and left 2 million homeless. The tsunami that it caused killed people in Hawaii, Japan and the Philippines and caused damage to the west coast of the United States.

This is terrible, the world are bad, maybe there are more than 20 000 people killed, now, we do not know, because the phone lines and electricity are out. But after, maybe we will have a suprise.

Terrible human disaster. Hope not many dead since the epicentre was not near big city. People chose to live along the fault lines , it is economicaly advantageous in the long run.