Posted on 12/26/2014 6:59:57 PM PST by Star Traveler
There have been more than 500 magnitude 3.0 or greater earthquakes in Oklahoma this year, up significantly from 109 in 2013 and just 35 in 2012, according to U.S. Geological Survey officials.
As of Monday, there were 549 of the higher magnitude quakes in 2014, with 19 being magnitude 4.0 or greater.
USGS officials focused on magnitude 3.0 or greater quakes because the smaller the magnitude, the more potential there is for missing an event, USGS Geophysicist Robert Williams said.
The USGS is looking into the increase in earthquakes, mostly occurring in central and north-central Oklahoma, he said.
“Starting probably in 2009, we started to notice the jump in earthquakes, even though it was small back then, relative to 2014,” Williams said.
A new scientific group focused on studying induced seismicity has been formed. There probably are six to 10 researchers working on the issue, with about four or five working full time now, according to Williams.
(Excerpt) Read more at enidnews.com ...
I don’t think Oklahoma even has any historic volcanoes, much less a current one developing ... :-) ...
Your volcanoes are “primarily” along plate boundaries, but there are exceptions, like Yellowstone.
Nobody should probably be nervous.
Just nervous enough to buy earthquake insurance ... which is something new for Oklahoma ... :-) ...
Well a volcano would at least add some scenery there.
If it BLOWS.... you’re close.. downwind too..
Wow, is earthquake insurance affordable there? Here [California] it is most definitely not.
We have been experiencing numerous swarms of quakes in Southern OR/ Northern NV. All activity is about the same intensity of the central OK quakes. This has been the most active spot on the planet multiple times over the past few months. No fracking here, probably just basin and range divergent plate movement. Hoping these little guys take the tension out of the earth and are not signs of a major one to come.
Have you ever read about how Paracutin volcano came into being in 1943?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par%C3%ADcutin
Three weeks before the actual eruption, rumbling noises that resembled thunder were heard by people near Parícutin village. These were actually deep earthquakes.[3] The volcano began as a fissure in a cornfield owned by a P’urhépecha farmer, Dionisio Pulido, on February 20, 1943.
I’m sure that’s every Okie’s dream, Husker: to look more like Nebraska.
I’m glad it’s not connected to yellowstone, but it has been 40 years since roe, so hang on!
My, is someone sensitive about the prediction that NE is going to get slaughtered in its bowl game? ;-)
The problem is it’s awfully difficult to find an expert that doesn’t have an agenda. We need to hear from geologists who aren’t opposed to fracking.
On the bright side, maybe we can sue big oil over the cracks in our tile shower. ;-)
Yeah, now that you mention it ... I do remember it. But also note that this is on the “Ring of Fire” while Oklahoma is not. That’s a key difference.
I find that graph from the link showing the earthquakes to be very interesting, that’s quite a spike.
From the USGS website, if you go back 30 days, you can see 2.0’s littered about the USA, I wonder how common this is historically?
I have little doubt that in Oklahoma at least that its the result of fracking technology occurring in the state, or specifically the wastewater injection back into the ground that could be causing this uptick,
Jesus tells us there will be increasing earthquakes in “divers” places (that is different from where they normally occur) and as we get closer to that time, we should be reminded that he said “the end is not yet” but it will come like birth pains, with increasing frequency and intensity,
I find it interesting that earthquakes are not signs but that they would be occurring with the general nearness of the time of the end,
We’re shown in Psalm 22 and in Isaiah 53 the precise manner in which the Messiah would be killed. Daniel Chapter 9 says that the Messiah would be “cut off” the word in the original means executed, killed. David wrote over nine-hundred years before Jesus, Isaiah wrote seven-hundred years before and within all those intervening years, the method of capital punishment in Israel was death by stoning.
So what does that have to do with Earthquakes in Oklahoma?
Maybe nothing at all, but I mention it just to illustrate what occurs to me when I read reports like this one,
The Romans invented crucifixion as a form of capital punishment in about 90 BC, they borrowed the idea from the Persians, its where the word ‘excruciating’ comes from,
Would anyone have believed that some unknown Roman engineer who invented crucifixion as a form of capital punishment was in anyway conscious of or aware that it could someday fulfill those precise prophecies far in the future? We would hardly have expected anyone at that time to make such a connection,
But what about even a week prior to the crucifixion? and even if the manner was clearly understood at that time, before the Messiah was about to be put to death, it still would’ve seemed no less ridiculous, even with it so clearly described, that this method of capitol punishment could actually be that same (prophetically important) future event,
So when we’re told in the Bible that at the time of the end there would be earthquakes “in diverse places” again, meaning occurring in different places than where we would normally experience them, instead of just along known fault lines (sure faults can be anywhere and/or become known) my point is only this, what does it matter about the reasons why the earthquakes may be increasing? or how it is that some engineer came up with a way to extract resources from deep within the earth causing them, how is this any different? The end result is the same,
As the invention of the method of crucifixion came and allowed for the fulfilling that prophecy, understanding by what means it would come doesn’t make the ground shake any less as we understand the reasons of how we got here or that we even did it to ourselves,
Were shown in the Bible that earthquakes can occur as a result of spiritual warfare, and I think that scenario has to be considered for what we’re witnessing here, or on the other hand maybe it means absolutely nothing and is quite geologically and statistically normal if we only had additional centuries of data to compare?
We’ve heard of strange tremors in Wisconsin, 5.0’s in Oklahoma and smaller tremors across multiple states, there’s been no shortage of these kinds of reports over the last few years and whether or not this is just the result of our increased awareness via email, twitter and youtube to share them I don’t know?
I would say that it may be that these earthquakes mean nothing at all and are being just a natural occurrence or environmental impact brought about by our own actions, the data historically has never been that clear (to me at least)
But at the very frighteningly worst, they certainly could be a sign with deep prophetic implications, maybe evidence of intensifying spiritual battles taking place and increasing here as a wake-up call that time is running out for this nation.
That should work; an annual Maintenance Supplement paid to all property owning residents within a twenty miles radius. This will be a recurring expense for sure.
Umm, we don’t have volcanoes here either. And yes I know we’re going to get our ass kicked in the bowl game.
Works for me!
The earthquakes in Oklahoma don’t relate to Yellowstone.
Yeah, it’s quite affordable ... and it’s been on the local news that a lot of people in Oklahoma are getting it now.
What do they relate to?..
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