Caribbean Tectonic Nose Snorts Loudly in HAITI,
But it will snort and buck much more in Tribulation,
Along With Entire Worldwide Tectonic Plate System!
January 13, 2010
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
The following phenomena are associated tectonic plate boundary “Rings of Fire.”
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.
We sent this out by e-mail yesterday to all on our list when the earthquake occurred. I decided to wait for a better description of the phenomena associated with it before I issued a Blog about it.
HAITI EARTHQUAKE (Reported to those on our e-mail list yesterday)
Haiti lies on the northern border of the Caribbean Sea Tectonic plate finger.
It is a separate tectonic plate that extends off the massive Pacific Tectonic Plate known as the “Ring of Fire.” The plate looks like a bent index finger extending east across extreme southern Mexico just south of the Yucatan Peninsula, between Cuba and Jamaica, across southern Haiti and Puerto Rico, then southeast and south along the Lesser Antilles to Port of Spain, then west along the northern coastline of South America to Panama. The Plate could be referred to as a small offshoot “Ring of Fire” because of the volcanic island forming activity around its periphery.
The following is the latest information we received today from Wikipedia.
The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake centered approximately 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, at 16:53:09 local time (21:53:09 UTC) on Tuesday 12 January 2010. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 kilometres (6.2 mi). The United States Geological Survey recorded a series of aftershocks, twelve of them between magnitudes 5.0 and 5.9.
Most of Port-au-Prince’s major landmarks have been significantly damaged or destroyed in the earthquake, including the Presidential Palace, the National Assembly building, the Port-au-Prince Cathedral and at least one hospital. The United Nations reported that headquarters of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), located in the capital, was destroyed and that a large number of UN personnel were unaccounted for (including the Mission’s Chief and family).
Haiti is a poor country, ranked 149th on the Human Development Index (of 182 countries).[ There is concern about the emergency services’ ability to cope with a major disaster, and the country is considered “economically vulnerable” by the Food and Agriculture Organization.
Background
The last time an earthquake of this magnitude hit the south of Hisp
aniola, the island that Haiti shares with the Dominican Republic, was in 1751. MSNBC.com and NBC News reported USGS geophysicist Kristin Marano called it the strongest earthquake since 1770 in what is now Haiti. According to Moreau de Saint-Méry (1750-1819), while “only one masonry building had not collapsed” in Port-au-Prince during the 18 October 1751 earthquake, “the whole city collapsed” during the earthquake of 3 June 1770.
The city of Cap-Haïtien and other cities in the northern part of Haiti and the Dominican Republic were destroyed in an earthquake on 7 May 1842.
In 1946, a magnitude-8.0 earthquake struck the Dominican Republic and also shook Haiti, producing a tsunami that killed 1,790 people.
A 2006 earthquake hazard study by C.
DeMets and M. Wiggins-Grandison noted that the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault system
could be at the end of its seismic cycle and forecasted a worst case of a magnitude 7.2 earthquake, similar in size to the 1692 Jamaica earthquake. Paul Mann and a group including the 2006 study team presented a hazard assessment of the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault system to the 18th Caribbean Geologic Conference in March 2008, noting the large strain (overall equivalent to a 7.2 Mw earthquake); the team recommended “high priority” historical geologic rupture studies, as the fault was fully locked and had recorded few earthquakes in the preceding 40 years. An article published in Haiti’s Le Matin newspaper in September 2008 cited comments by geologist Patrick Charles that there was a high risk of major seismic activity in Port-au-Prince.
Earthquake details
The earthquake occurred inland, on 12 January 2010, approximately 15 kilometres (10 miles) WSW from Port-au-Prince at a depth of 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) at 16:53 UTC-5 on the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault system. Strong shaking with intensity VII – IX on the Modified Mercalli scale (MM) was recorded in Port-au-Prince and its suburbs. It was also felt in Cuba (MM III in Guantánamo), Jamaica (MM II in Kingston), Venezuela (MM II in Caracas), and the bordering country of Dominican Republic (MM III in Santo Domingo).
The quake occurred in the vicinity of the northern boundary where the Caribbean tectonic plate shifts eastwards by about 20 mm per year relative to the North American plate. The strike-slip fault system in the region has two branches in Haiti, the Septentrional fault in the north and the Enriquillo-Plaintain Garden fault in the south; seismic data suggests that the January 2010 quake was on the Enriquillo-Plaintain Garden fault, which had been locked solid for 250 years, gathering stress.
The stress would ultimately have been relieved either by a large earthquake or a series of smaller ones. It is reported that the surface along the fault may have been offset in places by a meter or so.
The United States Geological Survey recorded six aftershocks in the two hours after the main earthquake of magnitudes approximately 5.9, 5.5, 5.1, 4.8, 4.5, and 4.5. within the first nine hours 26 aftershocks of magnitude 4.2 or greater were recorded, with twelve of them magnitude 5.0 or greater.
According to a member of the U.S. Geological Survey, based on the strength and location of the quake, about three million people would have been affected. Since the quake occurred under land rather than water, structures and people on the surface were directly exposed to the tremors, particularly since the fault was quite shallow.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami warning after the quake, but cancelled it shortly afterwards.
Aftermath
The National Palace was destroyed.
The buildings of the finance ministry, ministry of public works, the ministry of communication and culture, the Palace of Justice, the Superior Normal School, the National School of Administration, the Caribbean regional office of the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), Parliament, and the Port-au-Prince Cathedral were damaged to varying degrees.
Communications were also seriously disrupted, with a Haitian diplomat saying: “Communication is absolutely impossible… I’ve been trying to call my ministry and I cannot get through.”[30] A hospital in Pétionville, a wealthy suburb of Port-au-Prince, also collapsed from the earthquake.
The headquarters of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) – the Christopher Hotel, and offices of the World Bank were destroyed.
Haiti’s Prime Minister reports that “hundreds of thousands” of people have died in the quake. Reports from the country such as estimates of the death toll and infrastructure damages were not expected until daybreak on Wednesday due to the communication problems that have occurred since the earthquake. As of Wednesday, power is still out in the Haitian capital making communication difficult.
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