Revelation 6:12 I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
A magnitude 8.2 earthquake off the coast of northern Chile left at least six people dead and injured hundreds.
The quake was significant enough that government and local officials forced an evacuation of the coastline in anticipation of a tsunami. The waves peaked out about 7 feet above normal before officials allowed residents to return 10 hours after the quake.
The only major damage from tsunami waves struck Iquique by flooding city streets and washing away fishing boats. The city was also hosting several military units after the quake caused the collapse of a wall in the city’s women’s prison resulting the escape of all 300 prisoners.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake had 20 aftershocks including one that registered magnitude 6.2. The initial quake was so large that the USGS reports the capital of neighboring Bolivia reported a 4.5 magnitude earthquake.
Mike Simons, a seismologist with the USGS, said that despite the intensity of the current quake, scientists are expecting a more massive quake to strike Chile.
“Could be tomorrow, could be in 50 years; we do not know when it’s going to occur. But the key point here is that this magnitude-8.2 is not the large earthquake that we were expecting for this area,” Simons said.
It would be helpful if the dates of these events were posted with the headlines. I’m wondering when the earthquake in Japan happened.
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