Earthquakes And End Time Biblical Prophecy

So you think what Jesus said - and Isaiah - is absurd?

Do you also ignore the fact that Buz has talked of natural calamities increasing - before this event?

Can you prove otherwise as to biblical prophecies seemingly coming to pass?

2. To all freethinkers; When coincidences increase, like with the Jews coming back to their land, and natural cisasters - as said in the bible, do you weigh these things up or ignore them because of your preconceptions?

Location Date UTC Magnitude Coordinates
1. Chile 1960 05 22 9.5 38.24 S 73.05 W
2. Prince William Sound, Alaska 1964 03 28 9.2 61.02 N 147.65 W
3. Andreanof Islands, Alaska 1957 03 09 9.1 51.56 N 175.39 W
4. Kamchatka 1952 11 04 9.0 52.76 N 160.06 E
4. Off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra 2004 12 26 9.0 3.30 N 95.78 E
6. Off the Coast of Ecuador 1906 01 31 8.8 1.0 N 81.5 W
7. Rat Islands, Alaska 1965 02 04 8.7 51.21 N 178.50 E
8. Assam - Tibet 1950 08 15 8.6 28.5 N 96.5 E
9. Kamchatka 1923 02 03 8.5 54.0 N 161.0 E
10. Banda Sea, Indonesia 1938 02 01 8.5 5.05 S 131.62 E
11. Kuril Islands 1963 10 13 8.5 44.9 N 149.6 E

Earthquakes with 1,000 or More Deaths from 1900Date UTC Location Deaths Magnitude Comments
1902 Apr 19 Guatemala
14 N 91 W 2,000 7.5
1902 Dec 16 Turkestan
40.8 N 72.6 E 4,500 6.4
1903 Apr 19 Turkey
39.1 N 42.4 E 1,700
1903 Apr 28 Turkey
39.1 N 42.5 E 2,200 6.3
1905 Apr 4 India, Kangra
33.0 N 76.0 E 19,000 8.6
1905 Sep 8 Italy, Calabria
39.4 N 16.4 E 2,500 7.9
1906 Jan 31 Colombia-Ecuador
1 N 81.5 W 1,000 8.8
1906 Mar 16 Formosa, Kagi
(Taiwan)
23.6 N 120.5 E 1,300 7.1
1906 Aug 17 Chile, Valparaiso
33 S 72 W 20,000 8.2
1907 Jan 14 Jamaica, Kingston
18.2 N 76.7 W 1,600 6.5
1907 Oct 21 Central Asia
38 N 69 E 12,000 8.1
1908 Dec 28 Italy, Messina
38 N 15.5 E 70,000
to 100,000 7.2 Deaths from earthquake and tsunami.
1909 Jan 23 Iran
33.4 N 49.1 E 5,500 7.3
1912 Aug 9 Marmara Sea
40.5 N 27 E 1,950 7.8
1915 Jan 13 Italy, Avezzano
42 N 13.5 E 29,980 7.5
1917 Jan 21 Indonesia, Bali
8.0 S 115.4 E 15,000
1917 Jul 30 China
28.0 N 104.0 E 1,800 6.5
1918 Feb 13 China, Kwangtung
(Guangdong)
23.5 N 117.0 E 10,000 7.3
1920 Dec 16 China, Gansu
35.8 N 105.7 E 200,000 8.6 Major fractures, landslides.
1923 Mar 24 China
31.3 N 100.8 E 5,000 7.3
1923 May 25 Iran
35.3 N 59.2 E 2,200 5.7
1923 Sep 1 Japan, Kanto
35.0 N 139.5 E 143,000 7.9 Great Tokyo fire.
1925 Mar 16 China, Yunnan
25.5 N 100.3 E 5,000 7.1 Talifu almost completely destroyed.
1927 Mar 7 Japan, Tango
35.8 N 134.8 E 3,020 7.6
1927 May 22 China, Tsinghai
36.8 N 102.8 E 200,000 7.9 Large fractures.
1929 May 1 Iran
38 N 58 E 3,300 7.4
1930 May 6 Iran
38.0 N 44.5 E 2,500 7.2
1930 Jul 23 Italy
41.1 N 15.4 E 1,430 6.5
1931 Mar 31 Nicaragua
13.2 N 85.7 W 2,400 5.6
1932 Dec 25 China, Gansu
39.7 N 97.0 E 70,000 7.6
1933 Mar 2 Japan, Sanriku
39.0 N 143.0 E 2,990 8.4
1933 Aug 25 China
32.0 N 103.7 E 10,000 7.4
1934 Jan 15 India, Bihar-Nepal
26.6 N 86.8 E 10,700 8.1
1935 Apr 20 Formosa
24.0 N 121.0 E 3,280 7.1
1935 May 30 Pakistan, Quetta
29.6 N 66.5 E 30,000
to 60,000 7.5 Quetta almost completely destroyed.
1935 Jul 16 Taiwan
24.4 N 120.7 E 2,700 6.5
1939 Jan 25 Chile, Chillan
36.2 S 72.2 W 28,000 8.3
1939 Dec 26 Turkey, Erzincan
39.6 N 38 E 30,000 7.8
1940 Nov 10 Romania
45.8 N 26.8 E 1,000 7.3
1942 Nov 26 Turkey
40.5 N 34.0 E 4,000 7.6
1942 Dec 20 Turkey, Erbaa
40.9 N 36.5 E 3,000 7.3 Some reports of 1,000 killed.
1943 Sep 10 Japan, Tottori
35.6 N 134.2 E 1,190 7.4
1943 Nov 26 Turkey
41.0 N 33.7 E 4,000 7.6
1944 Jan 15 Argentina, San Juan
31.6 S 68.5 W 5,000 7.8 Reports of as many as 8,000 killed.
1944 Feb 1 Turkey
41.4 N 32.7 E 2,800 7.4 Reports of as many as 5,000 killed.
1944 Dec 7 Japan, Tonankai
33.7 N 136.2 E 1,000 8.1
1945 Jan 12 Japan Mikawa
34.8 N 137.0 E 1,900 7.1
1945 Nov 27 Iran
25.0 N 60.5 E 4,000 8.2
1946 May 31 Turkey
39.5 N 41.5 E 1,300 6.0
1946 Nov 10 Peru, Ancash
8.3 S 77.8 W 1,400 7.3 Landslides, great destruction.
1946 Dec 20 Japan, Tonankai
32.5 N 134.5 E 1,330 8.1
1948 Jun 28 Japan, Fukui
36.1 N 136.2 E 5,390 7.3
1948 Oct 5 USSR
(Turkmenistan, Ashgabat)
38.0 N 58.3 E 110,000 7.3
1949 Aug 5 Ecuador, Ambato
1.2 S 78.5 E 6,000 6.8 Large landslides, topographical changes.
1950 Aug 15 India, Assam, Tibet
28.7 N 96.6 E 1,530 8.6 Great topographical changes, landslides, floods.
1954 Sep 9 Algeria, Orleansville
36 N 1.6 E 1,250 6.8
1957 Jun 27 USSR
(Russia)
56.3 N 116.5 E 1,200
1957 Jul 2 Iran
36.2 N 52.7 E 1,200 7.4
1957 Dec 13 Iran
34.4 N 47.6 E 1,130 7.3
1960 Feb 29 Morocco, Agadir
30 N 9 W 10,000
to 15,000 5.7 Occurred at shallow depth just under city.
1960 May 22 Chile
39.5 S 74.5 W 4,000
to 5,000 9.5* Tsunami, volcanic activity, floods.
1962 Sep 1 Iran, Qazvin
35.6 N 49.9 E 12,230 7.3
1963 Jul 26 Yugoslavia, Skopje
42.1 N 21.4 E 1,100 6.0 Occurred at shallow depth just under city.
1966 Aug 19 Turkey, Varto
39.2 N 41.7 E 2,520 7.1
1968 Aug 31 Iran
34.0 N 59.0 E 12,000
to 20,000 7.3
1969 Jul 25 Eastern China
21.6 N 111.9 E 3,000 5.9
1970 Jan 4 Yunnan Province, China
24.1 N 102.5 E 10,000 7.5
1970 Mar 28 Turkey, Gediz
39.2 N 29.5 E 1,100 7.3
1970 May 31 Peru
9.2 S 78.8 W 66,000 7.9 $530,000 damage, great rock slide, floods.
1972 Apr 10 Iran, southern
28.4 N 52.8 E 5,054 7.1
1972 Dec 23 Nicaragua, Managua
12.4 N 86.1 W 5,000 6.2
1974 May 10 China
28.2 N 104.0 E 20,000 6.8
1974 Dec 28 Pakistan
35.0 N 72.8 E 5,300 6.2
1975 Feb 4 China
40.6 N 122.5 E 10,000 7.0
1975 Sep 6 Turkey
38.5 N 40.7 E 2,300 6.7
1976 Feb 4 Guatemala
15.3 N 89.1 W 23,000 7.5
1976 May 6 Italy, northeastern
46.4 N 13.3 E 1,000 6.5
1976 Jun 25 West Irian
(New Guinea)
4.6 S 140.1 E 422 7.1 5,000 to 9,000 missing and presumed dead.
1976 Jul 27 China, Tangshan
39.6 N 118.0 E 255,000
(official) 7.5 Estimated death toll as high as 655,000.
1976 Aug 16 Philippines, Mindanao
6.3 N 124.0 E 8,000 7.9
1976 Nov 24 Northwest
Iran-USSR border
39.1 N 44.0 E 5,000 7.3 Deaths estimated.
1977 Mar 4 Romania
45.8 N 26.8 E 1,500 7.2
1978 Sep 16 Iran
33.2 N 57.4 E 15,000 7.8
1980 Oct 10 Algeria, El Asnam
(formerly Orleansville)
36.1 N 1.4 E 3,500 7.7
1980 Nov 23 Italy, southern
40.9 N 15.3 E 3,000 7.2
1981 Jun 11 Iran, southern
29.9 N 57.7 E 3,000 6.9
1981 Jul 28 Iran, southern
30.0 N 57.8 E 1,500 7.3
1982 Dec 13 Western Arabian Peninsula
14.7 N 44.4 E 2,800 6.0
1983 Oct 30 Turkey
40.3 N 42.2 E 1,342 6.9
1985 Sep 19 Mexico, Michoacan
18.2 N 102.5 W 9,500
(official) 8.0 Estimated death toll as high as 30,000.
1986 Oct 10 El Salvador
13.8 N 89.2 W 1,000+ 5.5
1987 Mar 6 Colombia-Ecuador
0.2 N 77.8 W 1,000+ 7.0
1988 Aug 20 Nepal-India border region
26.8 N 86.6 E 1,450 6.6
1988 Dec 7 Armenia, Spitak
41.0 N 44.2 E 25,000 6.8
1990 Jun 20 Western Iran
37.0 N 49.4 E 40,000
to 50,000 7.7 Landslides.
1990 Jul 16 Luzon, Philippine Islands
15.7 N 121.2 E 1,621 7.8 Landslides, subsidence, and sandblows.
1991 Oct 19 Northern India
30.8 N 78.8 E 2,000 7.0
1992 Dec 12 Flores Region, Indonesia
8.5 S 121.9 E 2,500 7.5 Tsunami ran inland 300 meters; wave height 25 meters.
1993 Sep 29 India, Latur-Killari
18.1 N 76.5 E 9,748 6.2
1995 Jan 16 Japan, Kobe
34.6 N 135 E 5,502 6.9 Landslide, liquifaction.
1995 May 27 Sakhalin Island
52.6 N 142.8 E 1,989 7.5
1997 May 10 Northern Iran
33.9 N 59.7 E 1,560 7.5 4,460 injured, 60,000 homeless.
1998 Feb 04 Afghanistan-Tajikistan
Border Region
37.1 N 70.1 E 2,323 6.1 818 injured, 8,094 houses destroyed, 6,725 livestock killed.
1998 May 30 Afghanistan-Tajikistan
Border Region
37.1 N 70.1 E 4,000 6.9 At least 4,000 people killed, many thousands injured and homeless in Badakhshan and Takhar Provinces, Afghanistan.
1998 Jul 17 Papua New Guinea,
2.96 S 141.9 E 2,183 7.0 Thousands injured, about 9,500 homeless and about 500 missing as a result of a tsunami with maximum wave heights estimated at 10 meters.
1999 Jan 25 Colombia
4.46 N 75.82 W 1,185 6.2 Over 700 missing and presumed killed, over 4,750 injured and about 250,000 homeless.
1999 Aug 17 Turkey
40.7 N 30.0 E 17,118 7.6 At least 50,000 injured, thousands homeless. Damage estimate at 3 to 6.5 billion USD.
1999 Sep 20 Taiwan
23.7 N 121.0 E 2,297 7.7 Over 8,700 injured, over 600,000 homeless. Damage estimate at 14 billion USD.
2001 Jan 26 India
23.3 N 70.3 E 20,023 7.7 166,836 injured, 600,000 homeless.
2002 Mar 25 Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan
35.9 N 69.2 E 1,000 6.1 4,000 injured, 1,500 houses destroyed in the Nahrin area. Approximately 20,000 people homeless.
2003 May 21 Northern Algeria
36.90 N 3.71 E 2,266 6.8 10,261 injured, 150,000 homeless, more than 1,243 buildings damaged or destroyed.
2003 Dec 26 Southeastern Iran
28.99 N 58.31 E 26,200 6.6 30,000 injured, 85 percent of buildings damaged or destroyed and infrastructure damaged in the Bam area* Recomputed magnitude
Data compiled from several sources.

Most Destructive Known Earthquakes on Record in the World
Earthquakes with 50,000 or More DeathsListed in order of greatest number of deathsDate Location Deaths Magnitude Comments
January 23, 1556 China, Shansi 830,000 ~8
July 27, 1976 China, Tangshan 255,000
(official) 7.5 Estimated death toll as high as 655,000.
August 9, 1138 Syria, Aleppo 230,000
May 22, 1927 China, near Xining 200,000 7.9 Large fractures.
December 22, 856+ Iran, Damghan 200,000
December 16, 1920 China, Gansu 200,000 8.6 Major fractures, landslides.
March 23, 893+ Iran, Ardabil 150,000
September 1, 1923 Japan, Kwanto 143,000 7.9 Great Tokyo fire.
October 5, 1948 USSR
(Turkmenistan, Ashgabat) 110,000 7.3
December 28, 1908 Italy, Messina 70,000 to 100,000
(estimated) 7.2 Deaths from earthquake and tsunami.
September, 1290 China, Chihli 100,000
November, 1667 Caucasia, Shemakha 80,000
November 18, 1727 Iran, Tabriz 77,000
November 1, 1755 Portugal, Lisbon 70,000 8.7 Great tsunami.
December 25, 1932 China, Gansu 70,000 7.6
May 31, 1970 Peru 66,000 7.9 $530,000 damage, great rock slide, floods.
1268 Asia Minor, Silicia 60,000
January 11, 1693 Italy, Sicily 60,000
May 30, 1935 Pakistan, Quetta 30,000 to 60,000 7.5 Quetta almost completely destroyed.
February 4, 1783 Italy, Calabria 50,000
June 20, 1990 Iran 50,000 7.7 Landslides.+ Note that these dates are prior to 1000 AD. No digit is missing.NOTE: Some sources list an earthquake that killed 300,00 people in Calcutta, India, on October 11, 1737.
Recent studies indicate that these casualties were most likely due to a cyclone, not an earthquake.
(Source: The 1737 Calcutta Earthquake and Cyclone Evaluated by Roger Bilham, BSSA, Vol. 84, No. 5, 1650-1657, October 1994)Data compiled from several sources.

I think it is opportunism of the lowest sort for someone to use the tragic death of at least 15,000 people and injury and damage to countless tens of thousands more as justification for their own religious beliefs.

EVERY earthquake shakes the whole planet.

also, isaiah is operating off a faulty idea of the earth. it does not a foundation in the sense he means it.

I agree. His opportunism is sickening.
And it's more offensive to me because it's some 4.500 lives of my fellow countrymen he's using just to prove he's 'right'.

I believe Buz mentioned such events on earth in another topic, hence his talk about such natural calamities preceded this thread. I'd like to know what that means to freethinkers.

So just when do you take in the beginning of the end times as having begun?

C'mon buz pick a date

YOu do realise that earthquakes happen all the time. An earthquake of this magnatude happened a mere 40 years ago. Several of this magnatude happen in a century. This is true now, it was true 2000 years ago, it was 3000, it was true 10,000 years ago.
Undoubtably, bigger earthquakes happened, and it will happen again.

I would submit that maybe Buzz has the cart before the horse. Seems the big quake comes at the end of a series of horrible events leading up to the End.

1st bowl: Ugly painful sores, recently postulated by fundies to be a result of nuclear war or chemical war.

2nd bowl: Oceans totally polluted and sea life dies.
3rd bowl: All fresh water is polluted. I think the most likely cause of these second two events will be the unbridled rape of natural resources by fundementalists who rationalize their actions by their belief in Genesis's granting of man's dominance over his environment, and Revelation's promise of 1000 years of paradise for believers.

4th bowl: Intense heat from the sun. This one obviously could wipe man out before the Big Quake!

5th bowl: Dark clouds cover the planet. Again, the fundimaniacs think this could be the result of nuclear war. I personally think it will be a cloud of greenhouse gas.

6th bowl: Euphrates River becomes completely dry; armies gather for Armageddon. Well, if the river dries up, we could certainly move our troops out of Iraq and into the Levant a lot quicker.

7th bowl: Greatest earthquake in history; all cities collapse in a global earthquake; the final blow against Babylon the Great. Here's Buz's big quake, folks.

Now, how many of the first 6 bowls have poured out prior to the devastating quake that killed so many unfortunate souls around the Indian Ocean's rim?