Luke 21:11 There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
Important Takeaways:
- Magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes New Guinea, Papua New Guinea region
- An earthquake of magnitude 7.2 struck New Guinea, Papua New Guinea region early on Monday, according to the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC).
- The quake was at a depth of 80 km (49.71 miles), it added. The US Tsunami Warning System said there was no tsunami warning after the quake.
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Mathew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
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- Vanuatu gets back-to-back earthquakes, cyclone
- The Pacific nation experienced an initial 6.5 magnitude quake, followed by an aftershock.[5.4] A state of emergency has been declared amid the threat of Cyclone Kevin.
- The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no tsunami threat from the initial quake.
- Just a couple of days ago, strong winds and rain from Cyclone Judy had lashed Vanuatu. Electricity and communications in the island nation are still affected.
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Mathew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Important Takeaways:
- Today’s global seismic activity level: HIGH
- Magnitude 6+: 1 earthquake
- Magnitude 5+: 4 earthquakes
- Magnitude 4+: 46 earthquakes
- Magnitude 3+: 128 earthquakes
- Magnitude 2+: 382 earthquakes
- [The Largest was] Mag 6.5 Bismarck Sea, 109 km northwest of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea
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Mathew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Important Takeaways:
- Earthquake death toll in Turkey rises to 43,556, minister says
- The number of people killed in Turkey in this month’s devastating earthquakes has risen to 43,556, the country’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said overnight.
- Soylu told state broadcaster TRT Haber that there had been 7,930 aftershocks following the first quake on Feb. 6 and that more than 600,000 apartments and 150,000 commercial premises had suffered at least moderate damage.
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Mathew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Important Takeaways:
- Panic as Turkey, Syria rocked again by 6.3M earthquake
- A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck southern Turkey near the Syrian border late on Monday, setting off panic and further damaging buildings two weeks after the country’s worst earthquake in modern history left tens of thousands dead.
- Two Reuter’s reporters said the tremors were strong and lasting, damaging buildings and leaving dust in the night air in central Antakya city, where it was centered. It was also felt in Egypt and Lebanon, Reuter’s reporters said.
- The European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said the tremor struck at a shallow depth of 2 km (1.2 miles).
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Mathew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Important Takeaways:
- Blinken pledges long-term aid for Turkey after devastating earthquakes
- Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Turkey on Monday the United States would help “for as long as it takes” after deadly earthquakes two weeks ago, as Turkish authorities carried out wide-scale demolition of damaged buildings.
- Washington has sent a search and rescue team to Turkey, along with medical supplies, concrete-breaking machinery and additional funding in humanitarian aid that also covers Syria.
- Blinken on Sunday toured an area devastated by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake and aftershocks that killed more than 47,000 people in southern Turkey and northwest Syria.
- Total U.S. humanitarian assistance to support the earthquake response in the two countries has reached $185 million, the U.S. State Department has said.
- [Death Toll] was expected to climb further, with some 385,000 apartments in the country known to have been destroyed or seriously damaged and many people still missing.
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Mathew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Important Takeaways:
- Earthquakes that killed thousands in Syria and Turkey are world’s deadliest in nearly two decades
- As of Feb. 16, ten days after the initial 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the region, more than 41,000 people are known to have died. That earthquake was only the start of the growing disaster, with another 5.7 magnitude quake hitting the following day and hundreds of aftershocks in between.
- The earthquakes are the deadliest to occur in the world since a massive 2005 quake in Pakistan killed more than 70,000 people.
- In 2011, nearly 20,000 people were killed after a 9.0 quake off of Japan’s coast triggered a tsunami.
- And the year before [2010] that, a catastrophic earthquake in Haiti devastated the capital city, Port au Prince, with a death toll estimated at 200,000 or more.
- 2018 in Indonesia at least 4,340 people were killed by the earthquake and its torrential aftermath, including at least 1,200 in the tsunami
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Mathew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Important Takeaways:
- ‘Keep Praying’: Survivors Still Being Found in Quake Rubble, Operation Blessing Relief Effort Underway
- Rescuers are still finding some survivors amid the rubble… in Turkey and Syria. It’s the worst natural disaster in Turkey’s history with at least 35,500 now known to be dead. Nearly 32,000 of those people died in Turkey with at least 3,500 more in Syria.
- The destruction zone in Turkey after those two massive earthquakes and dozens of aftershocks is stunning in its magnitude. As a comparison, it is the same size as the area north of New York City all the way to the south of Washington D.C., including New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware and part of Pennsylvania.
- Diego Traverso, Operation Blessing’s international director of disaster relief, says the ministry is rushing to meet needs as quickly as possible.
- “We want to be in the center of the action where the people need it, where, not only the people that are suffering… Keep praying for us, keep praying for the victims, keep praying for our volunteers, for our teams we’re deploying right now. Our experts are gonna be arriving in the next couple hours, water engineer, doctor, health team… the health is so needed.”
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Mathew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Important Takeaways:
- Strong earthquake shakes New Zealand
- The temblor hit the Cook Strait off the coast of the capital Wellington at 7:38 p.m. local time, the U.S. Geological Survey said, adding it was at a depth of 46 miles.
- The USGS said it was a 5.7 magnitude strike while its New Zealand counterpart, GeoNet, registered it as a magnitude 6.1.
- More than 61,000 people reported experiencing the temblor, GeoNet said, explaining that the depth it hit means “it was felt more widely and strongly.”
- A second earthquake, this one a magnitude 4.0, was registered at 8 p.m. near Taumarunui, which is about 227 miles north of Wellington.
- No tsunami warning has been issued.
- The earthquakes hit as New Zealand combats the effects of a cyclone that wreaked havoc on the North Island this week.
- On Tuesday, the country declared a National State of Emergency for only the third time in its history.
- “It is already a really stressful time for people
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Mathew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Important Takeaways:
- Turkey Probes Contractors as Earthquake Deaths Pass 33,000
- The death toll from the magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 quakes that struck nine hours apart in southeastern Turkey and northern Syria rose to 33,185 and was certain to increase as search teams find more bodies.
- As despair bred rage at the agonizingly slow rescues, the focus turned to assigning blame.
- Turkey’s construction codes meet current earthquake-engineering standards, at least on paper, but they are rarely enforced, explaining why thousands of buildings toppled over or pancaked down onto the people inside.
- Rescue crews have been overwhelmed by the widespread damage that has affected roads and airports, making it even harder to move quickly.
- Erdogan has acknowledged the initial response was hampered by the damage. He said the worst-affected area was 500 kilometers (310 miles) in diameter and home to 13.5 million people.
- In Syria’s northwestern rebel-held region has reached 2,166, according to the rescue group the White Helmets.
- The overall death toll in Syria stood at 3,553 on Saturday, although the 1,387 deaths reported for government-held parts of the country hadn’t been updated in days. Turkey’s death toll was 29,605 as of Sunday
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