Chile’s Megathrust Earthquake Changed The World
March 15th, 2010 - 7:28 pm ICT by GD ( 17 comments )By Madhuri Dey
Mar 15, (THAINDIAN NEWS) According to a professor of geology and geophysics with the University of Minnesota, Justin Revenaugh, the effects of the phenomenal earthquake in Chile on the geography and the movements of the earth were very predictable, one looked at the kind of earthquake that the country suffered. As the Geological Survey of the United States had reported earlier, the earthquake in Chile had been of the mega thrust kind, one that caused the maximum damage. In this process, one tectonic plate shifts under the other, instead of riding up on it, or moving apart, which leads to faults in the earth’s surface.
This process is called subduction. So far, there has been only 14 such cases recorded. These are generally very high in magnitude, and measure 7.5 and above. Due to their intensity, and the huge amount of energy that is released by the subduction of the two plates, the shape of the earth is somewhat affected, leading to what happened this time in the Chile earthquake. The change in shape led to a slight shift in the axis, causing a geographically minimal shortening of the day.
The speed of rotation of the earth increased due to the shift in the axis. This can be explained by the fact that the mega thrust earthquake caused the earth to get more compact in form, leading to a faster spin. This, in turn, has led to the shortening of the length of the day by about 1.26 millionth of a second. However, the Chile earthquake, though not predicted to the minute, could be expected, as some of the mega thrust quakes had taken place in the country before, and it is known to be seismically very active.
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March 15th, 2010 at 9:54 pm
Jesus already predicted this over 2000 years ago. Read Matthew 24, Chile maybe a microcosm of some of the larger ones to come (Matthew 24:22) hmmm. Food for thought. Do not be alarmed though no one knows that day or hour of His return, but we need be ready.
March 15th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
Jesus talked about these signs that would indicate we are living in the last days. People better wake up and start looking to the bible to see what our creator expects of us so that we can know how to survive, because this world is just going to get worse and whos’s going to protect us? NOT MAN!
March 15th, 2010 at 10:35 pm
hahaha Jesus, God, riiight. Because you know, we have never had an earthquake before, Zeus causes lightning, God must cause the earthquakes to show us our impending doom. Please.
Ever here of plate tectonics? Continental drift? Go read a couple books NOT written by Moses or Matthew please
March 15th, 2010 at 10:36 pm
u cant sha; change time in the earth??? why so can we eatr out
March 15th, 2010 at 11:24 pm
We have been haveing earthquakes and other natural disasters it is just now that they are getting worse and worse. Makes you wonder is the earth going to survive, what if it is an earthquake where you live how wil you handle that?
March 15th, 2010 at 11:48 pm
@ Elfuerté
Yeah it’s easy to laugh now out of ignorance but disprove one thing in the bible and compare it’s details: Times written, the many authors, consistency, prophecies fulfilled, no errors, etc…. Just compare it to anything ever written in all of history and then understand it’s significance. Just because you don’t believe in the POWER of God doesn’t mean your knee won’t be bowed one day before him at the time of judgement. His wonders are all around you, open your eyes and unplug your ears before you have no time left to do it and the end is here.
1 Corinthians 1:18-25
18For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19For it is written:
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
20Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. 22Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, 23but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 24but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.
March 16th, 2010 at 12:44 am
I don’t want to burst your bubble (bible), but fact is earthquakes have been happening ever since the planet formed and will continue beyound you and me. They aren’t worse, they are just better recorded as technology improves. Anyone can predict doom - I saw plenty of that in New York City when I was living there in the 60’s where homeless men were wearing sandwich signs that read “Repent, the world is coming to an end”…..it is for us as our lives are limited.
We can believe and put our trust in faith, but with our eyes open, we can see how this world’s face is always changing as it has been over its entire lifetime. Did you ever think that evolution is also the handywork of a higher being?
March 16th, 2010 at 12:50 am
“In the Bible, He told us that seven signals–war, revolution, plague, famine, earthquakes, religious deception & strange occurrences in space–would alert us that the end of the old world & the birth of the new was near.” Yes we’ve had earthquakes & all the rest, but in the Greek version it reads: “All of these things are the beginning of birth pains.” Not the “beginning of sorrows, as the King James version reads. Does it really need to be any more clear? They certainly are getting stronger & more frequent. How better to describe it to even the most illiterate.
March 16th, 2010 at 1:14 am
@ Kitehill
No one argues that earthquakes have happened “ever since the planet was formed” as you put it, however it doesn’t change the prophecy of Jesus Christ. As for evolution, what of the change in the inherited traits of a population of organisms through successive generations? Or natural selection? Does it mean the creator cannot design such things to occur?
What of other things science has no explanation for and theories that are still unproven yet believed as fact without merit? Why stand on those beliefs and ignore others? I guess one requires responsibility like active faith and the other does not.
@ deanna: Yes I agree it is the beginning of birth pains which will bring sorrow for some and joy for others when the eventual judgement takes place. Just like in real birth, some mothers get a healthy living baby and some do not.
March 16th, 2010 at 2:11 am
So much babble
March 16th, 2010 at 2:40 am
Luke 21:34,35
34″Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you unexpectedly like a trap. 35For it will come upon all those who live on the face of the whole earth. 36Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.”
March 16th, 2010 at 2:54 am
Buy the book How to Know God, translation of The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali. It tells in Ch 3 how to do all the things Jesus did that were called miracles but you have to gain the same state of consciousness Jesus had, which is what all yogis have–enlightenment. Do a search for “yogic flying.”
March 18th, 2010 at 12:36 am
Chile means “where the land ends”
8.8 according to the bible,8 means “new beginnings”
for double = heaven earth.
Concepcion, Chile = the birthing of the Spirit of God on the earth- “where the land ends”
Santiago means “St. James” and Saint James in Hebrew means Jacob and in Hebrew Jacob means “deceived”.
See what God reveals to you in the Megathrust- birthing coming to those who are deceived!
March 21st, 2010 at 5:34 am
question???? does this have anything to do with chile and 2004 sunami ,both shortend days ,but is this related that is my question: mathew 24:22(question),after chile earhtquake moved the world axis and made it spin faster therefore less sun and less moon, therefore shorter day, a permanent change for now
January 20th, 2011 at 9:08 am
weo!!! first of all we know that this thing will all comes because it says in the bible. we have to be carefull of words that comes in our mouth cause it could be sharp….prepare your self for the coming of our god….
January 20th, 2011 at 9:18 am
god created the earth and everything.all things are possible through christ.. we are at the end of the world.havent you heard about the famine and how life changes. we could tell from it. because our god is an awesome god. so i urge you to accept him as your lord and saviour..because he died on the cross for you and me. imagine who gave you the perfect life that your living it with…do not mock him or grieve. cause he done a miraculously thing in our life so don’t forget….he loves you and he said,i will not leave you nor forsake you…
April 10th, 2011 at 8:35 pm
I have a hard time trusting in something that so many have written,rewritten,put into and taken out of what they(man)want and letting us read it as is not how it was written (The Bible), and this is why. If you stand in a room with ten people and tell a story the story will change every time they tell it to someone else (put in and take out words) because its how they interpret it. Alright enough of that, the world is changing and we have no power to change or stop it. I do agree that our time here is limited, either death by natural or unnatural causes. The earth has been here for awhile (my opinion) but no one can predict (now lets be honest) when it will not be.So in closing I think we should all try to do what is right not because you were told to but because you want to. To the main subject, I feel for the people affected by earth quake’s and any natural disasters this one,all the one’s that have been and all the one’s to come.