While it is true that earthquakes are common throughout the world, as I
point out in my series "Beginning Of Sorrows", seismologists -- like the
British seismologist who is quoted in the article below -- are knowingly
conveying a dishonest picture of seismic activity when they state that
earthquake activity is not on the rise, because they have not noticed a rise
in either 6.0 or 7.0 quakes during the past decade.

For this seismologist -- or any seismologist for that matter -- to even make
such a statement is ludicrous, because they know full well that you cannot
look at such an extremely short period of time, and arrive at any rational
conclusions regarding earthquake frequency trends.

In other words, as I explain in my series, to honestly arrive at accurate
conclusions regarding earthquake activity, we must look at large, extended
periods of time, stretching into centuries and longer. In so doing, we have
a larger set of data to examine, which allows us to establish long-term
trends, insofar as seismic activity is concerned.

In short, while looking at a ten-year period of earthquake activity may not
reveal a significant increase in seismic activity, looking at a 100-year
period, or a 1000-year period will.

That is exactly what I did in the "Beginning of Sorrows" series; and the
extensive historical data that I collected indeed suggests -- precisely as
Jesus prophesied -- that earthquakes are on the rise. There are more
significant earthquakes occurring today than a century ago, or millennia
ago.


Survivors shiver in Turkey after quake kills 51

By BURHAN OZBILICI and SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

March 8, 2010


OKCULAR, Turkey - Hundreds of earthquake survivors huddled in aid tents and
around bonfires Monday in eastern Turkey, seeking relief from the winter
cold after a strong temblor knocked down stone and mud-brick houses in five
villages, killing 51 people.

The damage appeared worst in the Kurdish village of Okcular, which was
almost razed. At least 15 of the village's 900 residents were killed, the
Elazig governor's office said, and the air was thick with dust from crumpled
homes and barns.

The pre-dawn earthquake caught many residents as they slept, shaking the
area's poorly made buildings into piles of rubble. Panicked survivors fled
into the narrow streets of this village perched on a hill in front of
snow-covered mountains, with some people climbing out of windows to escape.

"I tried to get out of the door but it wouldn't open. I came out of the
window and started helping my neighbors," Ali Riza Ferhat of Okcular told
NTV television. "We removed six bodies."

The Kandilli seismology center said the 6.0-magnitude quake hit at 4:32 a.m.
(0232 GMT, 9 p.m. EST Sunday) near the village of Basyurt in a remote,
sparsely populated area of Elazig province. The region is 340 miles (550
kilometers) east of Ankara, the capital.

The U.S. Geological Survey listed the quake at 5.9 magnitude.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Kandilli Observatory's director,
Mustafa Erdik, urged residents not to enter any damaged homes, warning they
could topple from aftershocks that Erdik said could last for days.

More than 100 aftershocks measuring up to 5.5 magnitude shook the region on
Monday alone.

In addition to the deaths, 34 people were being treated for injuries,
Turkey's crisis center said.

Abdulkerim Sekerdag, 72, said he had just risen for early morning prayers
when the quake hit.

"The jolt threw me onto the ground," he told The Associated
Press. "When I
got up I checked my animals and then I checked on my neighbors."

"Two of them were buried. We pulled them out," he said, adding that they
were alive but injured.

Men used shovels and bare hands to dig two bodies out from under piles of
dirt, rubble and concrete blocks, video footage showed. Both bodies were
covered in blankets and carried away. One appeared to be a baby or young
child.

Women in veils gathered near the rescue scenes, some crying.

"Everything has been knocked down, there is not a stone in place," said
Yadin Apaydin, administrator for the village of Yukari Kanatli, where three
died.

Fifteen people were killed in the nearby village of Yukari Demirci, Gov.
Muammer Erol said, while four each were killed in the villages of Kayalik
and Gocmezler and 10 others died after being taken to a hospital in the town
of Kovancilar.

Most of the dead were immediately buried according to Muslim traditions. A
few funerals had to be put off until Tuesday.

The temblor also knocked down barns, killing many farm animals. A half-dozen
dead cows were seen partially buried near one collapsed home. One man, Haci
Sekerdag, said he lost eight cows and calves -- his main livelihood.

The Turkish Red Crescent set up tents and villagers laid plastic sheeting to
shelter them from the cold and dirt. The government said it rushed ambulance
helicopters, prefabricated homes and mobile kitchens into the stricken area.

Erdogan blamed the region's mud-brick buildings for the many deaths and said
the government housing agency would build quake-proof homes in the area.

The quake was also felt in the neighboring provinces of Tunceli, Bingol and
Diyarbakir, where residents fled to the streets in panic and stayed
outdoors. Schools were closed for two days. In Tunceli province, the quake
caused one school's walls to crack, the state-run Anatolia news agency
reported.

A museum in Elazig displaying artifacts from the Iron-age Kingdom of Urartu
was not affected by the quake, and nearby dams were also intact.

Earthquakes are frequent in Turkey, much of which lies on top of two main
fault lines. In 1999, two powerful earthquakes struck the country's
northwest, killing about 18,000 people. In 2003, a 6.4-magnitude earthquake
killed 177 people in Bingol, including 84 children whose school dormitory
collapsed.

Monday's quake in eastern Turkey followed deadly recent temblors in Haiti
and Chile, but Bernard Doft, the seismologist for the Royal Netherlands
Meteorological Institute in Utrecht, said there was no direct connection
between the three.

"These events are too far apart to be of direct influence to each
other," he
said.

Richard Luckett, a seismologist from the British Geological Survey, said
there has not been a spike in global seismic activity.

"If there was a big increase in the number of magnitude 6.0s in the past
decade we would know it, because we would see it in the statistics," Luckett
said. "We haven't seen an increase in 7.0s either."

He said scientists often see strong earthquakes but they don't get reported
because the damage or death toll is minimal. According to USGS data, the
world is hit by about 134 earthquakes a year in the 6.0- to 6.9-magnitude
range -- or about two a week.

"The point is that earthquakes are common and always have been," he said.



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