A Tribulation Period Disaster Waiting to Happen!
April 13, 2008
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The Juan de Fuca Tectonic Plate is sure to be a major contributor to the Chaos in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia during the time of the Tribulation Period.
The April 12, 2008 Article from Fox News, tells of the current swarm of under ocean earthquakes on the Plate, and our Archive March 6, 2005 Supplement to Archive Prophecy Updates 205A and 208A, gives background on the history of the Plate.
SUPPLEMENT TO ARCHIVE PROPHECY UPDATES 205A & 208A
March 6, 2005
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Off Shore Danger to NW U.S.– W Canada–Juan de Fuca!
There have been swarms of minor to moderate earthquakes along the Juan de Fuca Fault off the Oregon and Washington coasts this week. It is not uncommon, but this h as been
a rather persistent intermittent pattern during the past several months. This earthquake pattern from off the coast of Ferndale, California to Vancouver Island, Canada, could be the herald of a future large earthquake stress release on this fault.
I have tracked the notorious San Andreas Fault, which runs north-northwest just a few miles inside the interior western coastal dry land section of California.
I tracked it off the dry land lying southwest of the Golden Gate Bridge, under the Pacific inlet west of the Bridge, and then picked it up again on dry land northwest of the bridge. Most people are familiar with the great number of large earthquakes that have occurred on dry land in California from this fault, as well as other faults parallel and transverse to it.
However, there is an ever present danger of a tsunami producing earthquake occurring along its continued northern extension on the ocean floor
off the long western coastlines of Oregon, Washington, and
the Canadian Island of Vancouver.
The San Andreas Fault changes its basic form when it leaves the northwestern dry land of California about 35 miles SSW of Eureka to proceed under water off the aforementioned sections of the United States and Canada. Just west of Eureka it changes from a fault of primarily horizontal slippage to the Cascadia Subduction zone, and the slippage along it is as much up and down at about a 45 degree angle into the earth as it is horizontally north and south. The northwestern part of the Juan de Fuca plate is called
the Explorer Plate, which lies off Nootra Island and extends to the Queen Charlotte Islands, and the south part of it is called the South Gorda Plate. The most dangerous part of the Juan de Fuca subduction zone is from west of Crescent City, California to the southern half of Vancouver Island. It subducts along this portion under the lighter continental crust, and melts under the continent to fuel the magma chambers of the long chain of volcanoes from British Columbia through Oregon.
The eastern edge of the Juan de Fuca plate is subducting un
der the Canadian and American continents. The force pushing it eastward against the North American continent is a zone along its western border that is bringing up liquid rock, which forms new crust that forces the plate to move east. There are subterranean miniature volcanoes along the western border of the plate where the magma is pushing up. The following Scriptures indicate that the Juan de Fuca plate will only be a small part of the great horror unleashed by God, during the tribulation period, along the entire length of the thousands of miles of tectonic plate boundaries encircling the globe.
Isaiah 29:6 – Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
Luke 21:25-28 – And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; [26] Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. [27] And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
Revelation 6:12-14 – 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; [13] And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. [14] And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
Revelation 16:18-20 – 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. [19] And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. [20] And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
Matthew 24:21 – For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
Begin Fox News Report
Swarm of Earthquakes Detected off Central Oregon
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Associated Press
GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Scientists listening to underwater microphones have detected an unusual swarm of earthquakes off central Oregon, something that often happens before a volcanic eruption — except there are no volcanoes in the area.
Scientists don’t know exactly what the earthquakes mean, but they could be the result of molten rock rumbling away from the recognized earthquake faults off Oregon, said Robert Dziak, a geophysicist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Oregon State University.
There have been more than 600 quakes over the past 10 days in a basin 150 miles southwest of Newport.
The biggest was magnitude 5.4, and two others were more than magnitude 5.0, OSU reported.
On the hydrophones, the quakes sound like low thunder and are unlike anything scientists have heard in 17 years of listening, Dziak said. Some of the quakes have also been detected by earthquake instruments on land.
The hydrophones are left over from a network the Navy used to listen for submarines during the Cold War. They routinely detect passing ships, earthquakes on the ocean bottom and whales calling to one another.
Scientists hope to send out an OSU research ship to take water samples, looking for evidence that sediment has been stirred up and chemicals that would indicate magma is moving up through the Juan de Fuca Plate, Dziak said.
The quakes have not followed the typical pattern of a major shock followed by a series of diminishing aftershocks, and few have been strong enough to be felt on shore.
The Earth’s crust is made up of plates that rest on molten rock, which are rubbing together.
When the molten rock, or magma, erupts through the crust, it creates volcanoes.
That can happen in the middle of a plate. When the plates lurch against each other, they create earthquakes along the edges.
In this case, the Juan de Fuca Plate is a small piece of crust being crushed between the Pacific Plate and North America, Dziak said.
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