Earthquakes in Divers (Diverse) Places – Dogger Bank (6.1) – 1931
April 29, 2007
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The great North Sea Dogger Bank 6.1 earthquake occurred the year before I was born. I issued forecasts for Wales, Scotland, and England from 1958 to 1961, and developed an objective forecast tool to forecast rain stratus in the Midlands of England in 1959, which was published in the 1961 December Issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
Earthquakes are indeed rare in that area, but the overlapping fault structures in the North Sea does produce “traps” for oil laden layers of rock strata to build up, and slippage along these fault zones produces an earthquake ever now
and then.
The article which follows our lead article gives the details of the recent Kent earthquake in coastal southeast England.
This is an update of the earthquake statistics I began to keep some 30 years ago, updating them every year, and presenting them as I conducted lectures across the earth. You will find them in all my books, and may view them by clicking on “Birth Pang” on Our Menu, and then on “Birth Pang Figures.”
What follows is Prophecy Update Number 18, issued in 2001, and from which you may read about these statistics.
ARCHIVE PROPHECY UPDATE 18 QUOTE BEGINS
Before the sons of God were to appear in glorious manifestation on the millennial earth, there was to be a groaning of God’s creation. The earth was to travail like a woman experiencing birth pangs.
We were advised of this by Paul in verses 19 and 22 of the eighth chapter of Romans, where he wrote: “For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God,” and “For we know that the whole creation groaneth and trvaileth in pain together until now.” The birth pangs were occasionally felt during the time of Paul’s writings, but Matthew indicated they would increase noticeably just before Christ’s coming for his saints in verses 7b and 8 of the twentieth-fourth chapter of his gospel, where he wrote: “And there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers (many different) places. All these are the beginning of sorrows (odin).” The word “odin” is used for “sorrows” by Matthew, and the same root word for “odin” is used by Paul in Romans 8:22 to describe the “travail” of God’s creation. You may use any Greek lexicon of your choice, and you will find that the basic meaning of the word “odin” refers to the birth pangs experienced by a woman in the travail of delivering a child. Therefore, when the Lord said “All these,” in verse 8, he was referring specifically to the birth pangs that would be suffered, in a period of time just before his coming, because of famines, pestilence, and earthquakes. He indicated that all three of these phenomena would increase steadily like a woman’s birth pangs, ever increasing in this period labeled as “the beginning of sorrows.” Down through the centuries earthquakes, famine, and pestilence have been used repeatedly to teach that the coming of Jesus was at hand. However, they have never followed the “odin” pattern of a woman’s birth pangs during recorded history, that is, until now. In order for this prophecy of Christ to be fulfilled these phenomena had to behave like a woman’s birth pains. When true labor pangs begin, they become greater and greater in frequency and intensity with the passage of time.
Earthquake surges have come and gone in short duration patterns since this prophecy was uttered, but now, for the first time since it was given, they are steadily following the pattern of “odin.” The same basic pattern is now being followed in famine, pestilence, and earthquakes, just as Jesus indicated. In this update we will show the “odin” pattern in earthquakes. In future updates we will cover pestilence (loimos) and famine, Lord willing. The statistics which will follow were first extracted from the Earthquake Data File Summary, U. S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Environmental Data Service, Boulder, Colorado, which was issued in May of 1976. I have received updates to the original report from the same source every year since 1977. While the intensity of the earthquakes is similar to the Richter scale, with which most people are familiar, they are not exactly the same, but rather than launch out into a technical discussion of the difference, let me simply state that, for comparative purposes, they are the same.
They come from Table 2 – Summary of data file by year by magnitude and depth. As you read the numbers which follow in the narrative, remember they are referring to earthquakes reported across the earth greater than one in intensity on the Richter scale. Before Israel officially became a nation in May of 1948, there were never more than 6,000 earthquakes greater than one reported in any 19 year period.
I chose a 19 year cycle, because that is the number of years which passed between the time that Israel became a nation (1948), and the time she finally took back Old Jerusalem and her Temple Mount (1967). During the 19 year period between 1948 and the beginning of 1968, 32,789 earthquakes were reported across the surface of the planet. In 1967 Israel recaptured the Old City of Jerusalem and her Temple Mount and, for the first time since she lost it to the Romans in A.D. 70, she regained sovereignty over it.
During the 19 year period that followed, from 1968 to 1986, there were 125,011 earthquakes reported across the earth. In just 14 years, from 1986 to 2000, we had 247,347 earthquakes reported on this globe.
I assure you that they will continue to accelerate, but if they were simply to continue at this static rate of 17,688 per year then, by the time that the 19 year cycle is completed in 2005, there will have been 335,687 reported across the earth. By 2000 the average number reported per year since 1948 had increased, in 19 year cycles, from 1,726 to 6,579 to 17,688. I realize that a large part of the increase is due to better seismological equipment, a better reporting system, and an increase in the density of population, but it cannot be attributed to these factors alone.
And, after all, Jesus simply said, for all practical purposes, that more and more would be reported in many different (divers) places just before he came again. And, in saying they would be in many different places, one would have to surmise he knew man would spread across the earth and that technology would rapidly increase in the last days.
In any case, it demonstrates he is who he claimed to be, the Son of God, who knows the future. Did not the Spirit, in Daniel 12:4, indicate that man would spread across the earth, and technology would bring a literal knowledge and capability explosion: “But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” Could Jesus have known less?
ARCHIVE PROPHECY UPDATE 18 QUOTE ENDS
2007 UPDATE
The average number per year did accelerate from 2000 to 2005, such that instead of 17,668 per year being the average number per year from 1986 to 2005, it was actually 20,061.
Please consult the last half of Prophecy Update Number 126B in our Archives for an answer to the question: “Why are so many earthquakes being reported?”
Begin Earthquake Article
Kent, `Garden of England,’ Has Worst Quake Since 1580 (Update2)
By Brian McGee
April 28 (Bloomberg) — A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck Kent, a region southeast of London known as the “Garden of England,” in the worst tremor in the area since 1580, the British Geological Survey said.
The tremor shook an area of 0.25 square miles (0.4 kilometers) around the seaside town of Folkestone from 8:15 a.m. today, felling chimney stacks and loosening roof tiles, Bill Feeley, deputy chief fire officer of Kent Fire & Rescue, told Sky News. One person suffered minor head injuries, he said.
“The earth’s crust beneath our feet is riddled with ancient faults,” Brian Baptie, Edinburgh-based head of seismology at the British Geological Survey, told Sky News. “Stress can build up and eventually these faults fail.”
Earthquakes aren’t common in Britain. The Dover Straits, a section of the English Channel between England and France, registered a temblor of 5.8 on the Richter scale in 1580, Baptie said. Another measuring 4.1 hit the same spot in 1950.
The local fire service sent 25 engines after logging about 200 earthquake-related calls, Kent Fire & Rescue’s Feeley said. Accounts of how long the tremor lasted differed, varying from five to 20 seconds, the British Geological Survey said.
The most severe on-land earthquake in the U.K. occurred in 1984, a 5.4 temblor near Caernarvon, north Wales, Roger Musson, a seismologist with the British Geological Survey, said in a telephone interview.
A tremor 100 years before that in Colchester, east of London, wrought much more damage, he said. Though it registered 4.7, that temblor was two to three kilometers underground, compared with a depth of 20 kilometers in Caernarvon.
Dogger Bank
The Dogger Bank earthquake of 1931, of magnitude 6.1, had its epicenter in the North Sea and was felt across Britain as well as in countries including Germany and Holland, Musson said.
The impact of today’s tremor appeared to be restricted to five streets in Folkestone, with both the port of Dover and the tunnel linking England to France unaffected, said Kent Police Chief Superintendent Alex Hope.
“Given the time that it happened and the number of people that were about, we should be genuinely thankful that so few people were injured,” he told reporters in a televised briefing.
Kent is often referred to as the garden of England because of its extensive orchards and hop fields. The expression’s origins date back to the sixteenth century and a dish of cherries from the region enjoyed by King Henry VIII, according to a report last year in the Guardian newspaper.
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