There have been twenty-four earthquakes today in Honshu Japan, four of them over 6.0, which are USGS classified as “major.” Twenty of them were in the upper 4.0+ range and into the upper 5.0 magnitude range. And for good measure, there was another strong quake off New Guinea.
6.6 NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
6.1 2011/03/09 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
6.0 2011/03/09 OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
6.1 2011/03/09 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
7.2 2011/03/09 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
In Australia, animals have been washing up on shore in large numbers. “Dead fish, eels and crayfish have been found on shores with the coastline of Green Head, some 290km north of Perth, being covered in washed up carcasses. Green Head resident Rod Wilson said: “It’s very heartbreaking. I’ve been here for 28 years and I’ve never seen anything like it. To us it’s a local ecological disaster.””
Massive fish kill in California. “Officials said there is layer of fish about 12 to 18 inches thick covering the bottom of the marina, and those fish will wash up to the surface in the days ahead. Firefighters are using a hose at the bottom of the harbor to try to stir the fish up for a diver to capture. A sewer vacuum truck is also being used to suck the dead fish from the water with a long plastic hose. “Now that you have millions and just tons of dead fish, it’s going to become a hazmat situation,” Sgt. Phil Keenan of the Redondo Beach Police Department told KTLA.” News reports variously attribute the fish dying to winds, red tide, and/or lack of oxygen.
The dead fish are wall-to-wall and are 18 inches deep in the water.
In space, news, the sun has been active. Just as seismologists have an earthquake rating system for magnitude, the astronomers-that-be have a rating system on the gaseous emissions that flare out and eject from the sun. C class is small, M class is medium and X-class is the largest. An M1 is smallest M-class flare and a M9 is largest. Spaceweather.com summarized of one of the larger M-class flares: “FAST CORONAL MASS EJECTION: A coronal mass ejection (CME) exploded from the vicinity of sunspot 1164 during the late hours of March 7th. It leapt away from the sun traveling ~2200 km/s, making it the fastest CME since Sept. 2005. A movie of the cloud prepared by Karl Battams of the Naval Research Lab shows a possibly substantial Earth-directed component. This CME and at least one other could brush against Earth’s magnetic field on March 9th or 10th. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras.”
The Coronal Mass Ejections emitting from the sun this week sure have been crackling. On March 7th, there have been 7 M flares, on March 8th there were 5 M flares. There have been at least 2 flares on March 9th, and still counting. And this evening, we have an X flare.
NOAA Space Weather Alerts, Message Code: SUMX01
Serial Number: 69
SUMMARY: X-ray Event exceeded X1
Begin Time: 2011 Mar 09 2313 UTC
Maximum Time: 2011 Mar 09 2323 UTC
End Time: 2011 Mar 09 2329 UTC
X-ray Class: X1.5
Optical Class: 2b
Location: N90W10
NOAA Scale: R3 – Strong
Coronal Mass Ejections (when a flare is released from the sun and its emission travels through space) can affect earth if earth is in the path. We can experience anything from satellite dish disruptions, radio transmission interruptions, to electrical power grid outages. The X-Flare that occurred just happened a few hours ago and NOAA et al are still assessing its direction and potential impact.
I wonder, at what point will people say that it is God, and not “natural disasters.” When an earthquake so bad happens that the mountains crumble and men hide in the caves? (Rev 6:14;15). Or when the sun becomes dark, the flips on the lightswitch again? (Rev 8:12). Or when 100 pound hailstones fall? (Rev 16:21). The fact is, there are many who will continue to believe that God does not exist and that the events occurring in the world are the result of global warming or climate change or wars or man’s failure to unite with one heart or to tap into its universal consciousness or that any moment now, it will all be right again. Pharaoh himself saw the works of God and refused to believe.
Many will believe during the Tribulation, and praise God for that. He super-seals 144,000 evangelists and they proclaim His word and they believe. An Angel flies around the sun proclaiming to every tribe, nation and tongue, and many believe. The Two Witnesses proclaim God to the peoples and many believe. But many will not. I hope you believe.
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