"Expert: Small Ark. earthquakes could be warning"; http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gFMHRVlmLRQtwwnjzoDjOGi6iMqAD94NSS4O3 Who do JWs blame for earthquakes? All the signs of the times/composite sign are symptoms of man's protracted loss of god, but how to earthquakes fit into that? They could perhaps chalk up some tectonic activity to oil extraction? But if one plotted earthquakes on a map and compared it to lives lost, I don't think that oil extraction and earthquakes are correlated. Do they explain earthquakes as a nefarious activity of Satan? And if they refuse to acknowledge something so silly, who do they pass the buck to? Is it because of fallen creation, i.e., part of the 'curse the ground' thing God did to Adam? As far as I was aware, the JWs allowed the 'curse the ground' to be figurative to underscore the difficulty of Adam's life as a newly-minted imperfect man, not to underscore that God did a physical thing to the planet or transformed the character of thermodynamics and entropy. If a JW could be made to acknowledge that they don't know who causes earthquakes, and if they are not part of some modification or curse that God placed on the Earth, and if they are not part of some developing protracted presense of too much 'worldy mankind', then there's piece of the puzzle missing. Somehow, something bad is happening that 1) is not punishment from God 2) is not caused by God for any other reason 3) is not caused by Satan 4) is not caused by man. Did I miss anything? Is this a real hole in their story? Or have they filled it in?
Earthquakes in one place after another.
by rmt1 6 Replies latest jw friends
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purplesofa
Expert: Small Ark. earthquakes could be warning
By JON GAMBRELL – 1 day ago
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A series of small earthquakes that rattled central Arkansas in recent weeks could be a sign of something much bigger to come.
By this weekend, seismologists hope to install three measurement devices to gather data about future temblors in the area. That information could show whether the rumbles come from heat-related geological changes or from an undiscovered fault — which could mean a risk of substantial earthquakes in the future.
"The potential for generating a high-magnitude earthquake is real," said Haydar Al-Shukri, director of the Arkansas Earthquake Center at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Five earthquakes ranging in magnitude from 2.2 to 2.7 have hit central Arkansas this month. Quakes with a magnitude of 2.5 to 3 are typically the smallest felt by people.
While hundreds of earthquakes occur each year, including several in Arkansas, the location of the recent ones give Al-Shukri pause. Arkansas quakes generally occur in the state's northeast corner, part of the New Madrid Seismic Zone, where three temblors with magnitudes of around 8 struck during the winter of 1812 and smaller ones continue today.
But central Arkansas does not have any seismic history, Al-Shukri said.
"It is abnormal. It is significant," he said. "We need to carefully watch this activity."
The area does not have any permanent seismograph, so researchers asked the University of Memphis in Tennessee if they could use its portable equipment. The nearest seismographs aren't close enough to provide the detailed readings scientists need to determine what could be causing the tremors or properly locate their origin, said Scott Ausbrooks, the geohazard supervisor for the Arkansas Geological Survey.
"I don't know if you've looked at a map of where these events are located, but they've got a scatter on them," he said. "We're thinking this is probably the inherited error built in when you try to locate events of this small a magnitude from that far away."
Ausbrooks said officials would install the three seismographs around Magnet Cove, a Hot Spring County community near where a magnitude-2.7 earthquake hit on Nov. 1. Residents told police dispatchers they heard what sounded like an explosion.
One possible culprit could be a hydrothermal quake, caused by extremely hot fluid pushing into rocks under the surface. The hot fluid percolates into the cracks of the rocks and causes movement, Al-Shukri said.
That theory matches the geologic history of the area. Central Arkansas is home to Hot Springs, a city that grew up around its namesake spas. The springs have 143-degree waters rushing to the surface continuously.
If that's the case, the earthquakes likely wouldn't pose a drastic danger to the area, Al-Shukri said. At their strongest, such quakes reach only a magnitude of 5, the U.S. Geological Survey's threshold for "moderate."
However, if the earthquakes are caused by a previously unknown fault, that could mean a much more powerful temblor in the future. A recently discovered fault in eastern Arkansas near Marianna caused an earthquake with a magnitude of between 7.2 and 7.5 in the past 5,000 years, Al-Shukri said. That could cause widespread, heavy damage.
"Now, it's not active, but in geologist time, that's yesterday," he said.
Ausbrooks wouldn't speculate on what could be causing the earthquakes, saying he wanted to see what data the seismographs capture. However, he acknowledged an unknown fault could be running through the area.
"There are numerous faults across the state, both known and unknown," Ausbrooks said. "This area has got a lot of faults associated with it from the mountain building of the Ouachitas, but they're considered inactive."
On the Net:
- Arkansas Geological Survey: http://www.geology.ar.gov
- UALR Arkansas Earthquake Center: http://quake.ualr.edu
- U.S. Geological Survey: http://www.usgs.gov
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purplesofa
We have been hearing about AR getting a big earthquake for years. Years ago, a scientist predicted one to hit on Dec 3, forget the year, and you could not buy water, batteries, flashlights, anything weeks before. We all lived in a panic.
The damage is really supposed to be bad for Memphis, but could do considerable damage to Little Rock.
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Homerovah the Almighty
The earthquakes that occur in are modern time get utilized in their prophetic end times dogma,
as it gets placed into the recipe and pushed through indoctrination it sits there as a marketing tool of support.
An educated rational thinker realizes that earthquakes have not increased in are recent time over previous generations,
an explanation of this is obtainable from any factuality of Geology, oh but wait a second JWS are not allowed to go to Universities ........sorry
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could be a sign of something much bigger to come.
wooooooooooo
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JWdaughter
WAIT, 5000 YEARS ago Ark. had an enormous earthquake and recently it has had some tiny tremblors. But then they were NOWHERE near the end times, and NOW it is right on our doorstep? Seems like 5000 years ago was a lot closer to the end times then the present is if THAT is the measure of it. I think people need to get a grip.
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Nathan Natas
Obviously, JWDaughter, those were the "end times" 5,000 years ago, but the times were cut short lest no flesh be saved.
That, and Jesus hadn't arrived yet.
Como se dice "plate tectonics" in Aramaic?