Another Massive Earthquake

[kantuckyII]

Rant:
1 : to talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
2 : to scold vehemently


Rave:
1: to talk irrationally in or as if in delirium b : to speak out wildly c : to talk with extreme enthusiasm
2 : to move or advance violently

No one ranted, no one raved.

[my2cents]

No one ranted, no one raved?

Rant:
1 : to talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
2 : to scold vehemently

de·clam·a·to·ry (dĭ-klām'ə-tôr'ē, -tōr'ē)
adj.
Having the quality of a declamation.

Pretentiously rhetorical; bombastic.

Best to be ready for 'the shout!'
Oooooooo, is that an exclamation point?

exclamation point 
–noun
1.the sign (!) used in writing after an exclamation.
2.this mark sometimes used in writing two or more times in succession to indicate intensity of emotion, loudness, etc.: Long live the Queen!!
3.this mark sometimes used without accompanying words in writing direct discourse to indicate a speaker's dumbfounded astonishment[/b]: “His wife just gave birth to quintuplets.”(!)

[b]So we have taken care of the RANT!


Rave:
1: to talk irrationally in or as if in delirium b : to speak out wildly c : to talk with extreme enthusiasm
2 : to move or advance violently



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
mar·a·nath·a  –interjection
O Lord, come: used as an invocation in I Cor. 16:22.

I think we have the RAVE more than covered. Any more fun games with words?


No one ranted, no one raved.

[mstangmom]

[quote="kantuckyII"]


What state in the US has the most earthquake prone area (it ain't the one many think)


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UMMMMMMMM I do blieve the answer to that is Ohio/indiana where there is a Huge faultline.


Fact is though Earthquakes do not kill people, its the manmade structures that were not built to handle earthquakes that kill people.

[my2cents]

There are hundreds of small Earthquakes everyday, all over the world. I guess god only causes the big ones!

[mtiger24]

Kantucky- i would have given up while i was ahead. In your case, that was after the original post.

[kantuckyII]

I am ahead still, they just don't understand it

[kantuckyII]

Oh, I don't know that I need to be ahead. I made an indisputable statement that was just meant to make people think.

[my2cents]

Well,it did make us think, but not what you think we would think, I don't think you thunk it out before you thought you would make us think.

[noreply66]

Oh, I just checked this..5 of the worse 11 earthquakes in the last 110 years have occurred in the last 5 years!

When taling about worst are you saying highest reading or number of dead?

Gave you chance here to talk about the quake and you just keep on going on the ones with religion. I trying to stay with the topic.

[kantuckyII]

Well...as I said, it makes me just look up more than ever. I fully believe that the Rapture of the Church is so close now. In my lifetime? In your lifetime? who knows? I do know that those who aren't ready will be left behind and face a hell on earth that can't really be comprehended! it's coming..like a woman who travaileth in birth, it's going to and nothing will stop it!

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Interesting...

Chile Earthquake May Have Shortened Days on Earth

The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire Earth's rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a NASA scientist said Monday.


The quake, the seventh strongest earthquake in recorded history, hit Chile Saturday and should have shortened the length of an Earth day by 1.26 milliseconds, according to research scientist Richard Gross at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.


"Perhaps more impressive is how much the quake shifted Earth's axis," NASA officials said in a Monday update.

The computer model used by Gross and his colleagues to determine the effects of the Chile earthquake effect also found that it should have moved Earth's figure axis by about 3 inches (8 cm or 27 milliarcseconds).

The Earth's figure axis is not the same as its north-south axis, which it spins around once every day at a speed of about 1,000 mph (1,604 kph).

The figure axis is the axis around which the Earth's mass is balanced. It is offset from the Earth's north-south axis by about 33 feet (10 meters).

Strong earthquakes have altered Earth's days and its axis in the past. The 9.1 Sumatran earthquake in 2004, which set off a deadly tsunami, should have shortened Earth's days by 6.8 microseconds and shifted its axis by about 2.76 inches (7 cm, or 2.32 milliarcseconds).

One Earth day is about 24 hours long. Over the course of a year, the length of a day normally changes gradually by one millisecond. It increases in the winter, when the Earth rotates more slowly, and decreases in the summer, Gross has said in the past.

The Chile earthquake was much smaller than the Sumatran temblor, but its effects on the Earth are larger because of its location. Its epicenter was located in the Earth's mid-latitudes rather than near the equator like the Sumatran event.

The fault responsible for the 2010 Chile quake also slices through Earth at a steeper angle than the Sumatran quake's fault, NASA scientists said.

"This makes the Chile fault more effective in moving Earth's mass vertically and hence more effective in shifting Earth's figure axis," NASA officials said.

Gross said his findings are based on early data available on the Chile earthquake. As more information about its characteristics are revealed, his prediction of its effects will likely change.

The Chile earthquake has killed more than 700 people and caused widespread devastation in the South American country.

Several major telescopes in Chile's Atacama Desert have escaped damage, according to the European Southern Observatory managing them.

A salt-measuring NASA satellite instrument destined to be installed on an Argentinean satellite was also undamaged in the earthquake, JPL officials said.

The Aquarius instrument was in the city of Bariloche, Argentina, where it is being installed in the Satelite de Aplicaciones Cientificas (SAC-D) satellite. The satellite integration facility is about 365 miles (588 km) from the Chile quake's epicenter.

The Aquarius instrument is designed to provide monthly global maps of the ocean's salt concentration in order to track current circulation and its role in climate change.

[kantuckyII]

Oh, I just checked this..5 of the worse 11 earthquakes in the last 110 years have occurred in the last 5 years!

When taling about worst are you saying highest reading or number of dead?

Gave you chance here to talk about the quake and you just keep on going on the ones with religion. I trying to stay with the topic.

Well, I believe that the one a few years ago killed more people than all the other's mentioned combined..over 1/4 of a million people

[my2cents]

It's no great mystery why Earthquakes kill more people now, there are more people around to kill. Even KII should be able to do that math. For example there were about 1.5 million people in Istanbul in 1970, now there is almost 12 million. It is in an Earthquake zone and is overdue for a big one. When it happens it is going to be catastrophic, not because of god, but because of overcrowding and people living in substandard housing.

[kantuckyII]

Well again, almost 50% of the earth's greatest earthquakes of the last 110 years have occurred in the last 5 years. If we even have one of those in the next 10 years, it will be astounding

[my2cents]

Here's a list of the biggest quakes since 1900, I only see 3 in the past 5 years of the 15, 4 if you take 1994, so that is not 50%. You will notice they are all in the ring of fire in the pacific where the earth crust in most active, or is god biased to the pacific rim countries?



1. Chile 1960 05 22 9.5 -38.29 -73.05 Kanamori, 1977
2. Prince William Sound, Alaska 1964 03 28 9.2 61.02 -147.65 Kanamori, 1977
3. Off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra 2004 12 26 9.1 3.30 95.78 Park et al., 2005
4. Kamchatka 1952 11 04 9.0 52.76 160.06 Kanamori, 1977
5. Offshore Maule, Chile 2010 02 27 8.8 -35.846 -72.719 PDE
6. Off the Coast of Ecuador 1906 01 31 8.8 1.0 -81.5 Kanamori, 1977
7. Rat Islands, Alaska 1965 02 04 8.7 51.21 178.50 Kanamori, 1977
8. Northern Sumatra, Indonesia 2005 03 28 8.6 2.08 97.01 PDE
9. Assam - Tibet 1950 08 15 8.6 28.5 96.5 Kanamori, 1977
10. Andreanof Islands, Alaska 1957 03 09 8.6 51.56 -175.39 Johnson et al., 1994
11. Southern Sumatra, Indonesia 2007 09 12 8.5 -4.438 101.367 PDE
12. Banda Sea, Indonesia 1938 02 01 8.5 -5.05 131.62 Okal and Reymond, 2003
13. Kamchatka 1923 02 03 8.5 54.0 161.0 Kanamori, 1988
14. Chile-Argentina Border 1922 11 11 8.5 -28.55 -70.50 Kanamori, 1977
15. Kuril Islands 1963 10 13 8.5 44.9 149.6 Kanamori, 1977

Quake in the past 30 days and line showing the tetonic plates. The plates are moving in different directions and pressure builds up as they try to move until there is a slip to relieve the pressure. There is no boogeyman causing these quakes. That mindset went out with the dark ages.

[kantuckyII]

CNN Earth Quake Chart Since 1905

[noreply66]

Could someone put up the top ten most powerful and the top ten that killed the most people?

It seems like the most powerful doesn't always come out to where the most lives are lost.

[mstangmom]

Top ten lists

Deadliest natural disaters

Rank Event Location Date Death Toll (Estimate)
1. 1931 China floods China July, November, 1931 1,000,000–4,000,000
2. 1887 Yellow River flood China September, October, 1887 900,000–2,000,000
3. 1556 Shaanxi earthquake Shaanxi Province, China January 23, 1556 830,000[
4. 1970 Bhola cyclone East Pakistan, Pakistan November 13, 1970 500,000
5. 1839 India Cyclone India November 25, 1839 300,000
6. 526 Antioch earthquake Antioch, Byzantine Empire May 526 250,000-300,000
7. 1976 Tangshan earthquake Tangshan, Hebei, China 28July 28, 1976 242,419
8. 1920 Haiyuan earthquake Haiyuan, Ningxia-Gansu, China December 16,1920 234,117
9. 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Maldives, among other nations December 26, 2004 230,210
10. 2010 Haiti earthquake Port-au-Prince, Haiti January 12, 2010 222,517 (we know the body count is still ongoing)

[mstangmom]

[edit] Blizzards

Rank Event Location Date Death Toll (Estimate)
1. Iran Blizzard Iran 01972 1972 4,000
2. 2008 Afghanistan blizzard Afghanistan 926
3. Great Blizzard of 1888 United States 01888 1888 400
4. 1993 North American Storm Complex United States 01993 1993 318
5. Schoolhouse Blizzard United States 01888 1888 235
6. Hakko-da Mountains incident Japan 01902 1902 199
7. Armistice Day Blizzard United States 01940 1940 144
8. 2008 Chinese winter storms China 02008 2008 133
9. 1995 Kazakh Blizzard Kazakhstan 01995 1995 112
10. Blizzard of 1978 United States 01978 1978 54

[mstangmom]

Contractable diseases
See also: List of epidemics
Pandemics killing at least 1,000,000 people:

Rank Event Location Death Toll (Estimate) Date
1. Bubonic Plague: Black Death Asia, Europe, Africa 100,000 approx. 1300s–1720s
2. Spanish Flu Worldwide 100,000,000 1918–1919
3. Bubonic Plague: Plague of Justinian Asia, Europe, Africa 100,000,000 540–590
4. Bubonic Plague: Third Pandemic Worldwide 12,000,000 ? 1850s–1950s
5. Antonine Plague Roman Empire 5,000,000 165–180
6. Asian Flu pandemic Worldwide 4,000,000 1956-1958

[mstangmom]

Cyclones
Main article: Tropical cyclone
Rank Death Toll Event Location Date
1. 500,000 1970 Bhola cyclone Bangladesh (East Pakistan) 1970
2. 300,000 1839 Indian cyclone India 1839
3. 300,000[14] 1737 Calcutta cyclone India 1737
5. 210,000 Super Typhoon Nina—contributed to Banqiao Dam failure China 1975
6. 200,000[15] Great Backerganj Cyclone of 1876 present day Bangladesh 1876
7. ~146,000 Cyclone Nargis Myanmar 2008
8. 138,866 1991 Bangladesh cyclone Bangladesh 1991
9. 100,000 1882 Bombay cyclone Bombay, India 1882
10. 60,000 1922 Swatow Typhoon China 1922
10. 60,000 1864 Calcutta Cyclone India 1864