US ISRAEL TO GO ANOTHER WEEK

1-Heatwave leads to spate of Forest fires. 2-Indonesia quake again,no Tsunami alert. 3-Quake rocks China 4-Quake jolts Pakistan-Iran border. 5-Washington Quake. 6-Japan plans 30 year weather forcasts. 7-Indonesia seeks answers after 520 dead in Tsunami. 8-US-ISRAEL agree to wait a week before world steps in
Lebanon.

ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

Heatwave leads to a spate of forest fires
By h.b.,Tue, 18 Jul 2006, 17:05

The heatwave across Spain has led to increased incidents of forest fire and now there are hundreds of hectares burning with six provinces under threat from the flames – Cáceres, Badajoz, Cádiz, Valencia, A Coruña and Pontevedra. In Galicia currently there are as many as ten fronts active, and a previous fire in Conil de la Frontera, believed to have been put out last night, has restarted today possibly deliberately. Once again police have had to evacuate the residents of the Roche urbanisation.In Valencia lightning is being blamed for the starting of a series of small fires.The weather conditions are complicating the fire fighters efforts.Meanwhile water reserves nationally have fallen back under the 50% level down 1.5% over the past seven days to stand at 49.7%
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MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

No tsunami risk after latest quake off Indonesia: warning centre
1 hour, 1 minute ago

JAKARTA (AFP) - Some residents fled their homes and police raced to warn people of a potential tsunami after a quake rattled Indonesia but a warning centre said it hit too deep to pose a threat. The 6.2-magnitude quake, which hit undersea between Java and Sumatra islands at 5:57 pm (1057 GMT), came just two days after a 7.7-strength temblor triggered a tsunami that lashed the south coast of Java, killing at least 525 people.A geophysicist from the Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, Gerard Fryer, told AFP that the quake does not seem to have generated a tsunami.Fryer added: Our assessment is that it is no hazard.

Minutes after the quake struck, an official from Indonesia's national seismology centre told Elshinta radio, which is broadcast across much of the country, that it may have caused a tsunami.People are advised to be on alert, he said.Residents in Lebak on the western tip of Java ran out of their homes and mosques in panic, screaming Allahu Akbar! (God is the greatest), an Elshinta reporter said.In Bandar Lampung, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the coast of south Sumatra, policeman Barak Elki told AFP that local security officials had headed for the coast to warn residents of a possible tsunami.It was up to each district head to give the warning,Elki said, adding that he had received a warning himself from the national meteorological agency.The quake was felt in the capital for about one minute, where it caused tall buildings to sway and sparked some evacuations.

The US Geological Survey put its epicentre at 153 kilometres (96 miles) west-southwest of Jakarta, at a depth of 44 kilometres.
Indonesia, which sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire, where continental plates meet causing frequest seismic and volcanic activity, was the nation worst hit by the December 2004 Asian tsunami.Some 168,000 people were killed in Aceh province when a 9.3-magnitude quake unleashed massive walls of water that reached 11 Indian Ocean nations, killing a total of 220,000.

Quake rocks northwest China Wed Jul 19, 9:38 AM ET

BEIJING (AFP) - An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 on the Richter scale shook a sparsely populated area in northwest China, state media has reported. The epicenter of the tremor, which struck Wednesday afternoon at 5:53 pm (0953 GMT), was in Yushu county in Qinghai province, the Xinhua news agency said, citing the China Seismological Bureau.The same area was hit by a magnitude 5.0 quake on Tuesday, Xinhua said, adding neither event had led to immediate reports of casualties.

Quake jolts Pakistan-Iran border Wed Jul 19, 8:30 AM ET

ISLAMABAD (AFP) - A moderate earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale jolted southwestern Pakistan's border with Iran but there were no reports of casualties or damage.The tremor happened at 4.27 am (2327 GMT Tuesday) and the epicenter was situated around 650 kilometres (400 miles) southwest of Quetta, a seismological department official told AFP Wednesday.The area where the quake struck, near the Arabian Sea coast in Baluchistan province, is very sparsely populated, he said. A massive 7.6-magnitude earthquake on October 8 last year killed more than 73,000 people in Pakistani Kashmir and North West Frontier Province and made more than three million people homeless.

Magnitude 3.6 earthquake shakes Mount St. Helens
Tue Jul 18, 7:58 PM

MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. (AP) - A magnitude 3.6 earthquake has shaken Mount St. Helens, one of the largest earthquakes recorded during the ongoing eruption.The U.S. Geological Survey says the 9:56 a.m. quake triggered significant rock falls from the lava dome and crater walls, sending plumes of dust to the rim. Lava has continued to push into the crater - most recently forming a sheer rock fin - since the mountain reawakened with a drumfire of low-level seismic activity in September 2004. The crater was formed by the volcano's deadly May 18, 1980, eruption that killed 57 people and blasted about 400 metres off the then-2,950-metre peak.

The volcano reopens to climbers on Friday. Climbing the volcano has been banned since September 2004. The National Volcanic Monument limits the number of climbers to 100 a day and requires a permit available online through the Mount St. Helens Institute.

DANIEL 12:4
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

Japan plans 30-year supercomputer forecasts By HANS GREIMEL, Associated Press Writer Tue Jul 18, 9:00 PM ET

TOKYO - Japan is planning ultra long-range 30-year weather forecasts that will predict typhoons, storms, blizzards, droughts and other inclement weather, an official said Tuesday. The project, to start next year, will harness the powers of one of the world's fastest supercomputers and is an offshoot of ongoing research by the country's science ministry to map global warming trends for the next 300 years.Using the Earth Simulator supercomputer, housed in a hangar-sized building in Yokohama, just south of Tokyo, Japan's science ministry hopes to calculate long-term patterns in the interaction of atmospheric pressure, air temperatures, ocean currents and sea temperatures, said Tomonori Otake, an official with the ministry's earth environment bureau.

The results will help establish predictable routes for typhoons and identify areas that are recurring targets for heavy rains, abundant snow, high waves, heavy winds, scorching heat or crop-threatening droughts.Now we can see what areas are at risk and start thinking about what kind of countermeasures to take, Otake said.Early warning could enable the government to allocate money and resources to potential disaster areas before disaster strikes.The ministry is now outlining the parameters of the project and will accept bids from researchers with an eye toward starting the program by next spring. A budget is not yet set, but it could cost in the area of $26 million a year.The Earth Simulator, introduced in 2002, was the world's fastest supercomputer until 2004, when IBM's Blue Gene took the title. But the $350 million computer still performs 35.6 trillion calculations a second, more computations than there are stars in our galaxy.

The machine tracks global sea temperatures, rainfall and crustal movement to predict natural disasters over the next centuries. As part of the project, Japan eyes forecasts for the entire planet for areas as small as 1.9 square miles.But don't plan on locking in sunny weather for that planned family picnic in July 2036. These forecasts are only general trends.Just like the daily forecast, we can't give a percentage for how accurate they are, Otake said.

LUKE 2125-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Indonesia seeks answers after tsunami kills 520 By Ed Davies
1 hour, 45 minutes ago

PANGANDARAN, Indonesia (Reuters) - Thousands awoke from a second night on mosque floors or under makeshift shelters on Indonesia's Java island on Tuesday as authorities grappled with the aftermath of a tsunami that killed at least 520 people. As efforts continued to find 235 people still missing, the media questioned why there was no warning ahead of Monday's killer waves despite regional efforts to set up early alert systems after the massive Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004.The Jakarta Post said in an editorial that the country's National Disaster Management Coordination Board had done nothing of note to increase people's preparedness for disasters.Preparedness also covers efforts to build effective early warning systems based on sophisticated information and communication technologies, the daily said.Heavy equipment to search for bodies under the rubble was in place on Wednesday along parts of the 160-km (100-mile) stretch of south Java's coastline that was battered by waves after a 7.7-magnitude undersea earthquake.Officials said there were four dead foreigners, including a Dutch national, a Swede, a Japanese and a Belgian.

More than 54,000 people were displaced from wrecked fishing villages and beach resorts, adding to the rehabilitation headache for the authorities after an earthquake that killed more than 5,700 people in central Java less than two months earlier.Aid trucks started to arrive for the thousands who lost their homes or who, fearing further tsunamis, fled to hills above the coast.Many found refuge under plastic-sheeting shelters while thousands camped out in mosques at the resort of Pangandaran and nearby Cilacap port, which were among the hardest-hit spots.Soft-drink and snack seller Mukasih, 25, said the tsunami destroyed both her kiosk and her home.Suddenly the waves came in and knocked me over. I tried to swim but I couldn't, she told Reuters.Mukasih suffered cuts and lacerations as the waves flung her and one of her children against a wall. She later found her husband and other child sheltering in a mosque.

Asked what her plans were, she said: I don't know. I'm still thinking, but I don't want a shop on the beach again.No tsunami warning system was set up for the southern coast of Java after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that left 230,000 killed or missing, including 170,000 in Indonesia.Some officials considered the area, which lies some 270 km (170 miles) southeast of Jakarta, less likely to be hit by a tsunami than others in Indonesia.It turned out that our prediction was wrong, the Jakarta Post quoted Surono, a senior official of the country's earthquake agency, as saying. "Now, we believe that there are no tsunami-free areas along the southern coast of Java.Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla told reporters the government would build an early warning system in Java and other areas in Indonesia in three years.Indonesia's 17,000 islands sprawl along a belt of intense volcanic and seismic activity, part of what is called the "Pacific Ring of Fire.

US, Israel agree to wait before world steps in Lebanon Wed Jul 19, 6:00 AM ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States and Israel have initially agreed to wait one week, while the pounding of Hezbollah targets continues, before seeking a buffer zone and an international force in southern Lebanon, a US daily has said. However Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora criticized the poor international response to Israel's bombings in an interview with the New York Times, and accused Israel of trying to destroy his country and its people.US and American officials told the daily that the Israeli-US consensus called for another week of pounding Hezbollah targets to downgrade the militant's group's military capabilities.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would then travel to the region, the officials added, to try to establish a buffer zone in southern Lebanon and possibly also an international force to monitor the country's borders and Hezbollah's actions.A 19-kilometer (12-mile) buffer zone was being considered to keep Hezbollah at arms' reach from Israel, the officials said.Israel, they added, had dropped its demand that Hezbollah disarm completely before a ceasefire begins.Washington and its Arab allies, US officials said, were discussing how to strengthen Lebanon's borders, while Israel has signaled it would welcome an international force as long as it included troops from major powers and prevented Hezbollah from supplementing its arsenal.

A senior US official, who like the other sources asked not to be identified, said not everybody was happy with the US position, saying we're very careful how we talk about it.He also said the United States was telling Israel there was a limit to the time it would be allowed to continue its present course of action.We are not going to be wagering with the lives of innocent people here, said the US official.Meanwhile, Siniora said the international community was not doing all that it can to stop Israel continuing its aggression against Lebanon,adding that Israel was taking that lack of pressure as a green light.

According to the New York Times, Siniora stopped short of condemning Hezbollah for drawing Israeli fire on Lebanon and accused Israel of committing massacres against Lebanese civilians and working to destroy everything that allows Lebanon to stay alive.He said he was in favor of the release of the two Israeli soldiers seized by Hezbollah in a raid that triggered the current crisis, but that Israel should also withdraw from the disputed Shebaa Farms area of the border.The premier also said all Lebanese jailed in Israel should be released and that Israel should return to the terms of the 1949 armistice between the two countries.Siniora said that if all those conditions were met, the Lebanese Army would move into southern Lebanon.He also backed the deployment of a stronger international force in the area, but only after all the issues were put on the table.