Geological Tectonic Unrest in the Foothills of the Himalayas!
Supplement to Archive Prophecy Updates 205, 205A, & 205B
A 7.6 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Between Pakistan and Kashmir
October 8, 2005
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The Indian Ocean Tectonic Plate has been pushing northward for a very long period of time.
It was this push that formed the great Himalaya mountain chain along the south boundary of the vast plateau of Tibet. The southern boundary line of tectonic activity push curves northwestward along the borders separating India from the provinces of Bhutan, Nepal, Westernmost China, Pakistan, and Kashmir. This lineament is connected to the great subduction zone on the eastern side of the Indian Ocean Tectonic Plate, which produced the catastrophic tsunami some 10 months ago. This plate is becoming more active, and will continue to show increased tectonic activity above what is normal for this tectonic zone.
In geological considerations, the earthquake was fairly shallow, because it represents the shallow push of the India Plate against the massive plateau of Tibet, and occurred on the south side of it. Although we are not in the tribulation period predicted in the Bible, I do not believe it is something that can be said to be “in the far distant future.” The events of the worst part of the great tribulation period will begin with a great earthquake in Israel’s Jordan River Valley
, which is found in Revelation 6:12. This will release an energy surge north and south from its occurrence into the east-west fault extending across northern Turkey, and into the Red Sea and Indian Ocean faults. This will result in the loosing of locked faults in these areas which, in turn, will begin a massive chain reaction across the thousands of miles of interconnecting fault lines across the surface of the earth.
This process will continue for some three and one-half years. When will this great earthquake occur in the Jordan River Valley? I DON’T KNOW! But I am of the opinion it could occur as early as 2007, and is likely to occur before 2012.
I do know that when it occurs the world will know it, and some three and one-half years of horror beyond human imagination will continue until the final earthquake in the Book of Revelation in 16:18. For a fuller exposition of this tectonic faulting zone associated with the Indian Ocean, please check out Prophecy Update Numbers 205, 205A, and 205B in our Prophecy Update Archives.
Revelation 6:12 – And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
Matthew 24:21,22 – For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. [22] And except those days should be shortened,
there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
Revelation 16:18 – And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and
so great.
The following extracts about the earthquake were taken from an article in the Jerusalem Post by the Associated Press.
It says “hundreds feared dead,” but I suspect the final casuality count could exceed 4,0oo.
BEGIN JERUSALEM POST EXTRACTS
Hundreds Feared Dead in Indian Subcontinent Quake
By the Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST
October 8, 2005
A magnitude 7.6 earthquake jolted South Asia on Saturday, killing dozens of people and injuring hundreds of others in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India. Several villages in northern Pakistan were buried in landslides triggered by the quake, and casualties could be “massive,” a military spokesman said.
“The damage and casualties could be massive and it is a national tragedy,” said Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan, the Pakistani army’s chief spokesman. “The is the worst earthquake in recent times.”
Pakistani army officials who flew over quake-hit areas reported seeing hundreds of flattened homes in northern villages, a government official in Islamabad said.
“Everybody seems to be affected in those villages,” the official said.
He declined to be named because he is not authorized
to speak to the media.
Part of a 19-story apartment building collapsed in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, and dozens of people were feared trapped in the rubble.
“We have received news of widespread damage in Pakistan’s northern areas, Kashmir and other parts of the country,” said Gen. Shaukat Sultan, the spokesman for Pakistan’s army.
He said troops and helicopters were dispatched to earthquake-hit areas to conduct rescue operations.
The US Geological Survey said on its Web site that the quake, which struck at 8:50 a.m. local time, had a magnitude of 7.6 and that its epicenter was 80 kilometers north-northeast of Islamabad.
Qaiser Abbas, a receptionist in the damaged apartment building in Islamabad, said he was sitting in his office when the building suddenly began to shake.
“After five seconds, I heard big sound, and then about 40 apartments collapsed,” he said.
He said he believed about 100 people might be trapped in the rubble. Rescue workers pulled two injured people from a huge pile of debris.
In Islamabad, buildings shook and walls swayed for about a minute. Panicked people ran out of homes and offices in many cities. Slight tremors continued afterward.
The quake badly damaged one village near Balakot, a scenic town about 300 kilometers northeast of Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province, said regional police chief Ataullah Wazir.
He said rescue teams were sent to the area. Local media reports said many homes in Balakot had collapsed.
Arif Mahmood, a seismological official in the northwestern city of Peshawar said the quake was felt in many parts of Pakistan.
Mohammed Hanif, another seismological official, said it was apparently strongest in Islamabad.
The quake also caused panic in the cities of Rawalpindi, Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta near the Afghan border, as well as the disputed Himalayan territory of Kashmir, which is divided between India and Pakistan and claimed in entirety by both.
Residents in the Afghan capital, Kabul, felt the quake, fleeing their homes for fear they would collapse.
The tremor also affected northern India.
‘`It was so strong that I saw buildings swaying.
It was terrifying,” said Hari Singh, a guard in an apartment complex in the New Delhi suburb of Noida. Hundreds of residents there raced down from their apartments after their furniture started shaking.
Srinagar, the summer capital of India’s Jammu-Kashmir state, was jolted by the quake.
“It was one of the most intense earthquakes felt in the Srinagar region in at least two decades,” said G.K. Mohanty, an official in the meteorological office in Srinagar.
END JERUSALEM POST EXTRACT