Supplement to Archive Updates 204C, 205, 205A, and 205B
July 22, 2005
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Dardanelle MBC
The following article on the potential New Madrid Fault hazard is very interesting.
No human can predict the precise time the New Madrid fault will produce two horrific quakes with the magnitude of those th at
occurred in 1811 and 1812, nor can any human predict when the great tribulation period described in the Bible will begin. But I can tell you this – when the tribulation period does begin, we can expect many great earthquakes of magnitudes greater than those experienced in 1811-12, and millions of casualties in southeastern Missouri, southern Illinois, western Kentucky and Tennessee, northeastern Arkansas, and northern Mississippi.
But this will merely be part of the worldwide activity that will claim billions of lives
before the tribulation period is finished.
The New Madrid Fault Zone and Israel’s Jordan River Valley Fault Zone will be among the earth’s prime targets for great earthquake activity.
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Arkansas Residents Urged to Prepare for Major Quake
July 21, 2005
Scientists See ‘Significant Probability’ of Temblor Along New Madrid Fault
By ANNIE BERGMAN, AP
Residents of the northeastern part of Arkansas along the New Madrid fault should be prepared for a high-magnitude earthquake, the University of Memphis Center for Earthquake Research and Information says.
Gary Patterson, the center’s information services director, said Tuesday that there is a “significant probability” that a major temblor could rock the region.
“There’s always reason to be aware when you’re in an area that has the probability to have a a magnitude 6 or greater,” Patterson said.
T here have been six earthquakes measuring 2 or above along t
he southern part of the New Madrid fault zone since May 1, and four earthquakes of near magnitude 4
since February, he said.
“It is unusual to have that many fours, but we’re only basing that on 30 years worth of data we have to compare it too,” Patterson said. “Earthquakes are kind of like hundred-year floods, these things don’t follow like clockwork.”
Despite the increase in seismic activity,
there is no way to forecast whether a larger earthquake will hit, the scientists said.
“We don’t think there’s any reason for an increased level of concern.
There’s not a larger event that those would have been precursors too,” he said.
On average, there are 150-200 earthquakes in the state each year, Patterson said.
The most recent 2.3 magnitude earthquake near Manila on Sunday put the number at 99, which is at
the high end of normal occurrences, he said.
Haydar J. Al-Shukri, the director of the Center for Earthquake Education and Technology Transfer at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, said there have only been two other times in state history where magnitude 4 earthquakes have happened in such rapid succession.
“Does this mean we’ ll see bigger one
? We don’t know at this point,” Al-Shukri said Tuesday.
The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management Web site urges Arkansans to prepare for a large earthquake in the region because such an earthquake could cause extensive damage.
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