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Earthquakes: Peru
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John Henry
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Aug 27, 2007 08:05 PDT
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"For nation shall rise against nation, and
kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and
earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning
of sorrows." (Matthew 24:7-8)
Powerful Earthquake Strikes Peru
Aug 15, 2007
By Leslie Josephs
LIMA, Peru (AP) - A powerful earthquake shook Peru's coast near the
capital on Wednesday, toppling some houses in Lima and causing alarmed
residents to flee into the street for safety. A tsunami warning was
issued for South America's Pacific coast based on the strength of the
quake.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the 7.5 magnitude temblor hit about 90
miles southeast of Lima at a depth of 25 miles. It was followed by two
strong aftershocks that registered at magnitudes 5.8 and 5.9.
There were no immediate reports of injuries. Associated Press reporters
said the quake shook Lima for more than a minute and that some homes had
collapsed in the city's center.
Firefighters said some street lights and windows shattered in Lima and
that hundreds of workers were evacuated from office buildings and
remained outside, fearing aftershocks.
The quake also knocked out telephone service and mobile phone service in
the capital. Firefighters were called to put out a fire in a shopping
center.
Callers to Radio Programas, Peru's main news station, said parts of
several cities in southern Peru had been hit with blackouts.
The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami warning
for the coasts of Peru, Chile, Ecuador and Colombia, and a tsunami watch
from Panama to Mexico.
It also issued a tsunami advisory for the U.S. state of Hawaii. The
center said it did not know if a tsunami had been generated.
The last time a quake of magnitude 7.0 or larger struck Peru's central
coast was in 1974 when a magnitude 7.6 hit in October followed by a 7.2 a
month later.
The latest Peru quake occurred in a subduction zone where one section of
the Earth's crust dives under another, said USGS geophysicist Dale Grant
at the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo.
Some of the world's biggest quakes strike in subduction zones including
the catastrophic Indian Ocean temblor in 2004 that generated deadly
tsunami waves.
Source:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070816/D8R1QLI81.html
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The Lord Jesus said, "... Take heed that no man deceive you.
For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall
deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars:
see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but
the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and
kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and
pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
All these are the beginning of sorrows." (Matthew
24:4-8) The "sorrows" here are like those of a woman when
she about to delivered her child. God told Eve that He would
"greatly multiply [her] sorrow and [her] conception; in sorrow [she
would] bring forth children" (Genesis 3:16). Similarly a
"sign of [Christ's] coming, and of the end of the world"
(Matthew 24:3) will be as a woman's birth pains increase as time for
delivery nears. All five of the things in Matthew 24:4-7 (false
christs, wars, famines, pestilences, earthquakes) will be simultaneously
increasing as the time of the end draws near. Research shows that
this is in fact occurring in our lifetime.
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