Weather, Natural Disasters and signs in the Sky: Understanding the Forces of The Earth

An earthquake is one of the worst natural disasters on our earth. We think that the ground we stand on is very stable, but it isn’t. It moves quite a lot. In the last few decades scientists have been able to find out why earthquakes happen.

Earthquakes happen when there is a sudden vibration in the earth’s crust. It’s like a large lorry that travels down your street. When it passes by, you feel your house shake.

Earthquakes can be caused by a lot of things :

Volcanoes that suddenly erupt
Meteorites that hit the earth
Undergrounds explosions
Buildings that fall apart

But most earthquakes happen because the earth’s plates move.

In the middle of the 20th century scientists found out that continents do not always stay in the same place. They have been moving on plates for millions of years. The earth’s surface is made up of many such plates. Where two plates meet magma comes out of the inner part of the earth . These areas are called faults—breaks in the earth’s crust.

How plates move

When two plates move away from each other lava or magma comes out of the earth. Most of this happens at the bottom of oceans, where the earth’s crust is very thin. Lava cools down when it reaches the water and underwater mountains are formed.

When plates push towards each other—one of them slides under the other. Rocks are pushed up and new mountains are formed.

Some plates slide past each other— for example, one moves north and the other moves south . When these plates move along faults a lot of energy is released and the biggest earthquakes happen.

(read here http://www.english-online.at/geography/earthquakes/earthquakes-and-plate-tetonics.htm)

Three of the known seven (7) Super Volcanoes are located in the United States. Yellowstone, which is the best known and is also the most likely to erupt, is in Wyoming. Long Valley Super Volcano in California, and the Valles Calderas Super Volcano in New Mexico are the others. The worlds other Super Volcanoes are Lake Toba in Indonesia, Taupo Super Volcano in New Zealand, Aira Caldera Super Volcano in Japan, and the Siberian Tarps Super Volcano, in Russia. The Siberian Tarps Super Volcano is by far the largest of the Super Volcanoes, and is often referred to as Yellowstone's' "Big Sister."

According to the "experts", the Eruption of a super volcano will happen "sooner or later" and will chill the planet and threaten human civilization. The bad news is: There's not a thing we can do about it.

A Super Volcano Eruption would dwarf the eruption of Mount St. Helen's. The Eruption would be about 100 times larger and would likely devastate an area the size of the United States with pronounced deterioration of the global climate for years following the Eruption. The Effect of a Super Volcano Eruption would be severe, and would likely result in the devastation of World agriculture and severe disruption of the food supply, which would result in world-wide mass starvation.

Revelation 16:17-21

New International Version (NIV)

¹⁷The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and out of the temple came a loud voice from the throne, saying, “It is done!” ¹⁸Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder and a severe earthquake. No earthquake like it has ever occurred since mankind has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake. ¹⁹The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath.²⁰Every island fled away and the mountains could not be found. ²¹From the sky huge hailstones, each weighing about a hundred pounds,^[a] fell on people. And they cursed God on account of the plague of hail,because the plague was so terrible.

Weather, Natural Disasters and signs in the Sky

Saturday, November 30, 2013

Understanding the Forces of The Earth

How plates move

Revelation 16:17-21

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