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Earthquakes: Japan
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John Henry
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Aug 27, 2007 08:07 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)
2 Killed, Over 320 Hurt in Japan Quake
July 16, 2007
By Chisaki Watanabe
TOKYO (AP) - A strong earthquake jolted northwestern Japan on Monday
morning, killing at least two people and injuring more than 320 others.
The quake flattened dozens of wooden houses and triggered a fire at a
nuclear power plant.
Fire sirens could be heard in hard-hit Kashiwazaki city, and older
buildings were reduced to piles of lumber. National broadcaster NHK
reported more than 320 people were hurt, with injuries including broken
bones, cuts and bruises.
Two women in Kashiwazaki died, an official at Kashiwazaki Central
Hospital said on condition of anonymity, citing hospital protocol. NHK
reported that the women were in their 80s and had been buried in separate
buildings.
"I was so scared - the violent shaking went on for 20 seconds,"
Ritei Wakatsuki, an employee of convenience store Lawson, told The
Associated Press by telephone from Kashiwazaki. "I almost fainted by
the fear of shaking."
(AP) A resident stands in front of a house collapsed by a strong
earthquake in Kashiwazaki, northwestern... Full Image The U.S. Geological
Survey said the quake registered 6.7 magnitude.
A series of smaller aftershocks rattled the area, including one with a
4.2 magnitude. Koichi Uhira of the Meteorological Agency warned that the
aftershocks could continue for a week.
Flames and billows of black smoke poured from the Kashiwazaki nuclear
plant. The fire, at an electrical transformer, was put out shortly after
noon and there was no release of radioactivity or damage to the reactors,
said Motoyasu Tamaki, a Tokyo Electric Power Co. The reactor and two
others in the region had shut down automatically.
Some 2,000 people in Kashiwazaki were evacuated from their homes, city
official Takashi Otsuka said.
NHK reported nearly 300 buildings in the city had been destroyed. The
force of the quake buckled seaside roads and bridges, and one-yard wide
fissures could been seen in the ground along the coastline.
A ceiling collapsed in a gym in Kashiwazaki where about 200 people had
gathered for a badminton tournament, and one person suffered minor facial
injuries, Kyodo reported. The quake also knocked a train car off the
rails while it was stopped at a station. No one was injured.
The Meteorological Agency issued tsunami warnings along the coast of
Niigata state, but the warnings were later lifted. Waves up to 20 inches
were believed to have hit the coast, but no damage was reported.
Several bullet train services linking Tokyo and northern and northwestern
Japan have been suspended. Officials said water and gas services for
Kashiwazaki's 35,000 households were suspended after reports of gas
leaks, reports said. About 18,000 households were without power as of
Monday afternoon.
The quake, which hit the region at 10:13 a.m., was centered off the coast
of Niigata, 160 miles northwest of the capital, Tokyo. The tremor made
buildings in Tokyo sway and was also felt in northern and central
Japan.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, campaigning in southern Japan for
parliamentary elections later this month, was to return to Tokyo to deal
with the quake, and the government had set up a task force, reports
said.
Niigata Airport, which had suspended flights shortly after the quake,
resumed services after finding no damage, Kyodo said.
Japan sits atop four tectonic plates and is one of the world's most
earthquake-prone countries. The last major quake to hit the capital,
Tokyo, killed some 142,000 people in 1923, and experts say the capital
has a 90 percent chance of suffering a major quake in the next 50
years.
In October 2004, a magnitude-6.8 earthquake hit Niigata, killing 40
people and damaging more than 6,000 homes. It was the deadliest to hit
Japan since 1995, when a magnitude-7.2 quake killed 6,433 people in the
western city of Kobe.
Source:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070716/D8QDGSN00.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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