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EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

EARTHQUAKES

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.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Death toll in China quake rises to 22 Indo-Asian News Service Saturday, August 30, 2008, (Panzhihua (China

The death toll in the earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale that hit southwest China's Sichuan province on Saturday rose to 22, officials said.At least 17people were killed and more than 100 injured in Sichuan province, while five people were reportedly killed and 26 injured in neighbouring Yunnan province, according to provincial authorities. Huge damage to properties in both the provinces has also been reported.The quake struck at 4.30 p.m. with its epicentre some 50 km southeast of Panzhihua city, at a depth of 10 km, the National Seismograph Network Center said. The tremor was felt in Yunan's capital, Kunming, about 300 km from the epicentre, and Sichuan's capital of Chengdu.Sichuan province had been hit by a magnitude 8.0 earthquake May 12, killing up to 70,000 people and devastating an area of 40,000 sq km. More than 42 million people have been affected by the quake.

Meanwhile, another earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale hit northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur region Saturday evening, but there is no immediate reports of any casualty. The quake struck northwest of Hejing county at 8.45 p.m. with its epicentre at a depth of 10 km, the National Seismograph Network Centre said.

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

LUKE 21:25-26
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;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
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.

WHY CAN'T AMERICA LISTEN TO GOD AND NOT THEMSELVES ABOUT DIVIDING JERUSALEM. NOW AS I WRITE THIS AT 2:45 PM GUSTAV IS A CATAGORY 4 HURRICANE BARELLING DOWN TO NEW ORLEANS.

Hurricane Gustav strengthens to Category 4 storm AUG 30,08

MIAMI (Reuters) - Hurricane Gustav strengthened into a dangerous Category 4 storm on Saturday with winds of 145 miles per hour (230 km per hour) as it surged toward western Cuba, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. (Reporting by Jane Sutton; Editing by Chris Wilson)

Killer hurricane Gustav strengthens ahead of striking Cuba AUG 30,08

HAVANA (AFP) - Deadly hurricane Gustav bore down on Cuba headed to the Gulf of Mexico Saturday, threatening to intensify into a category-four storm after leaving a trail of death and destruction across the Caribbean.Even before strengthening to a dangerous category three storm early Saturday, Gustav killed up to 85 people in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica and causing major damage in the Cayman islands, according to officials.Evacuations were underway in coastal areas from northwest Cuba to Louisiana in the United States, where Gustav was predicted make landfall Monday or early Tuesday, three years after superstorm Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans.Civil defense authorities in Cuba's Pinar del Rio province and most of northern Cuba said they were moving 190,000 people to safety, mainly from coastal towns vulnerable to flooding before Gustav hits shore.The eye of the hurricane was expected to pass over the Isla de la Juventud, or Isle of Youth, to the south of the mainland early afternoon Saturday, before directly striking Pinar del Rio and battering the capital Havana to the east.Early Saturday a Caymans official reported heavy damage from Gustav on Cayman Brac, the large eastern island of the Caymans group, with power and water supplies down.We're hoping that it's going to settle down enough that we can do some damage assessment, said Ernie Scott, District Commissioner of the Sister Islands.I'm expecting the HMS Iron Duke early and they're going to be providing significant assistance in our damage assessment operations, he said, referring to the British Royal Navy frigate in the area.

Hundreds of people fled into shelters on Grand and Little Cayman islands as some areas were affected by flooding.The US National Hurricane Center in Miami warned that Gustav, already blowing 205 kilometer (125 miles) per hour maximum sustained winds could further intensify before striking mainland Cuba.The center said tides could surge as much as 5.8 meters (19 feet) above normal in areas under the eye of the storm as it passes the Isle of Youth and mainland western Cuba.The center was giving the storm a nearly 40 percent chance of intensifying into a category-four hurricane, with sustained winds topping 210 kilometers (131 miles) per hour as it enters the Gulf of Mexico.At 11:00 am (1500 GMT) the center of the hurricane was located about 85 kilometers (55 miles) east-southeast of the Isle of Youth and moving toward the northwest at 22 kilometers (14 miles) per hour.Earlier this week Gustav left a path of destruction through Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica.In Haiti, it left 66 dead plus 10 missing. In the neighboring Dominican Republic, the death toll stood at eight.Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding told reporters Friday that the storm had killed up to 11 and displaced between 3,500 and 4,000 people in his Caribbean island nation. The death toll remained unconfirmed on Saturday.I am concerned that there are still a number of persons who are still unaccounted for, Golding said.Although the heaviest of the rains had subsided, many Jamaicans worried about returning home. It is all wet and I am afraid to sleep inside there, said Kingston housewife Charlene Markland.Anxiety meanwhile grew on the US Gulf Coast over Gustav's trajectory, with New Orleans beginning mandatory evacuations of low-lying areas Saturday.Roads out of New Orleans were jammed with people fleeing a potentially disastrous strike on the city just three years after Katrina left some 1,800 dead along the coast.Major oil producers BP, ConocoPhillips and Shell on Thursday evacuated workers from their facilities in the gulf where nearly a quarter of US crude oil installations are located.Meanwhile another tropical storm in the Atlantic well north of Puerto Rico was forecast to head to the west and strike the central Bahamas by Tuesday and then travel directly toward central Cuba.

New Orleans begins evacuations ahead of Gustav by Glenn Chapman
Sat Aug 30, 11:35 AM ET

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) - Desperate to avoid a repeat of the Katrina catastrophe in 2005, New Orleans prepared to begin mandatory evacuations Saturday as another deadly hurricane, Gustav, bore down on the city. Bumper-to-bumper traffic clogged roads leading north and east out of New Orleans, as the dangerous category three hurricane barreled toward the Gulf of Mexico after leaving 85 people dead in Caribbean nations.The National Hurricane Center said Gustav could strengthen to a category four storm before hitting the US coast late Monday or early Tuesday.

Coastal parishes in New Orleans were due to begin the first mandatory evacuations at noon (1600 GMT), as residents boarded up windows and piled sandbags to build temporary levees, three years after Hurricane Katrina breached levees protecting the low-lying city, killing some 1,500 people.We can take about five-and-a-half feet (1.67 meters) of water above sea level, but we can't take the nine to 12 feet (2.7 to 3.7 meters) they're talking about, Tim Kerner, mayor of Jean Lafitte in lower Jefferson Parish, told the New Orleans Time Picayune.The overall population of greater New Orleans is estimated at more than one million people. It was not immediately clear how many people would be affected by Saturday's mandatory evacuation orders.The New Orleans airport said it would shut down Sunday evening, and area hotels advised customers to leave town.Voluntary and assisted evacuations began Friday, but not all residents were eager to pack up and leave.I'm supposed to be leaving but I keep waiting just a little longer to see what the storm is going to do. I know it's a risk, New Orleans resident Sheile Robertson told AFP.

She said she escaped a day before Katrina struck, destroying her home, and now lives in an apartment with a half dozen people.Another city resident, Maggie Hawkins, brought her tiny dog, Bubbles, with her as she prepared to board a bus leaving the city.I'm a native who was born here. My parents were born here. If I can I will return and will rebuild and it will be stressful and it will be a challenge but this is my home and I love it, she said on CNN television.She added that she thought the government was doing a better job than three years ago, and was very happy that she could bring her pet.US President George W. Bush declared a state of emergency in Louisiana and Texas, empowering federal authorities to lead disaster relief efforts in the two states.Saturday Bush called the governors of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Texas to discuss preparations for Gustav, which could make landfall anywhere from western Florida to eastern Texas, said spokesman Scott Stanzel.

President Bush called to make sure the states were receiving all the assistance they needed from the federal government, Stanzel said.The president pledged the full support of the federal government.Bush's approval ratings in 2005 plummeted amid widespread criticism that he paid too little attention to Katrina, whose floodwaters rose as high as 15 feet (4.5 meters) and swallowed around 80 percent of New Orleans.

In the aftermath of that storm, tens of thousands of people spent days stranded without food or sanitation on rooftops, highways overpasses and temporary shelters which became scenes of chaos and fear as federal, state and local officials failed to adequately coordinate rescue plans. Some 20,000 people were forced to shelter in the city's Superdome sports arena amid scenes of rape, child molestation and shootings. Elsewhere in the city a number of patients were left to die in hospitals because of inadequate measures to evacuate them.

High waters, heavy rain hamper Indian flood relief Sat Aug 30, 9:10 AM ET

PATNA, India (Reuters) - Indian authorities, hampered by heavy rain and damaged roads, were struggling on Saturday to get aid to millions of displaced villagers in the eastern state of Bihar, hit by the worst flooding in 50 years. The Kosi river burst a dam in neighboring Nepal earlier this month, deluging Bihar and drowning village after village in its path as authorities failed to evacuate millions in time.

About 85 people have been killed and more than 2 million displaced by floodwaters that have smashed houses and destroyed 100,000 hectares (247,000 acres) of farmland.

Rains are killing our rescue and relief efforts, Bihar disaster management department minister Nitish Mishra told Reuters.Our helicopters were barely able to fly for most of the day yesterday as it continued raining heavily till 4 p.m., he said.On Friday, an overcrowded army boat carrying dozens of flood victims overturned in the swollen river, drowning at least 20 people and leaving 10 unaccounted for.

Some 350,000 people have been evacuated over the past 10 days and thousands are marooned, said Pratyay Amrit, a Bihar disaster management official.Army officers were putting up sandbags and wire mesh along roads in an attempt to fix embankments and prevent the swift flowing river from inundating new areas, said a Reuters witness in the flood-hit district of Saharsa.The witness also saw more than 1,000 people from nearby villages walking to the city, where they hoped to find food and shelter. Some villagers who chose to stay, built temporary bamboo shelters on high ground, eating uncooked rice and flour mixed with polluted water.We keep sitting here the whole night and wondering what to do. How will life go on? Will we survive or not? said Virender Kumar Saga.Floods have killed more than 1,000 people in South Asia since the monsoon began in June, mainly in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where 785 people died, and deaths were also reported in Nepal and Bangladesh.These are some of the worst floods in generations and they present a huge challenge for governments and humanitarian organizations, said Daniel Toole, UNICEF's regional director for South Asia on Friday.

EXTENSIVE DAMAGE

UNICEF said more than 1,000 villages in 13 districts had been affected by the surging waters, which have caused extensive damage to roads and water and electricity supplies.Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi, head of the ruling Congress party, flew over devastated areas by helicopter on Thursday and announced $228 million in aid.The London-based humanitarian organization Oxfam said it was providing those affected with temporary shelter, water purification tablets, buckets and oral rehydration sachets.The rapid changes in the river's course have forced many harried villagers to move shelters many times and to sell their precious livestock to buy food.I sold my goat for just 50 rupees which on any other day could have brought me 2,000 rupees, said Sabia Devi. UNICEF believes it will be months before the displaced families can return to their homes and expressed concerned over the hygiene conditions of the government-run relief camps. Cases of diarrhea were reported from many relief camps in the state. (Additional reporting by Sunil Kataria in Saharsa; writing by Melanie Lee, editing by Tim Pearce)

1/3RD OF SHIPS DESTROYED

REVELATION 8:8-9
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.

Boat sinks in flooded northern India, killing 20 By GAVIN RABINOWITZ, Associated Press Writer Sat Aug 30, 2:40 AM ET

PATNA, India - A rescue boat filled with panicked flood victims capsized and killed 20 people in northern India, where monsoon flooding grew worse because of heavy rain and water flowing from neighboring Nepal, officials said Saturday. The boat accident happened on Friday night in Madhepura district, 95 miles northeast of Patna, the capital of impoverished Bihar state, said O.N. Bhaskar, the superintendent of police. Those killed included one army rescue worker. Eight people swam to safety and 32 were rescued by troops, he said.The boat was overcrowded because people panicked to be rescued and clambered on board, Bhaskar told The Associated Press.

The death toll from this year's monsoon season across India has surpassed 800. Some 1.2 million people have been marooned and about 2 million more affected in Bihar state, where the Kosi river has burst its banks and submerged all roads leading to the region.India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described the flooding as a national calamity.Rising waters have swept away and drowned at least 75 people in Bihar state since June, the start of the monsoon season, said Prataya Amrit, secretary of the state's disaster management department.Authorities have rescued nearly 140,000 people and put most of them in state-run relief camps, Amrit said.

The situation was getting worse because of heavy rain in the region and a Kosi river breach on the Nepalese side, Amrit said Saturday.We can't assess the extent of the damage. It is colossal, he said. But we will only be able to tell the extent after the water recedes.The Indian government has made more than $200 million available to combat monsoon flooding. Nearly 1,500 soldiers have boosted rescue efforts in Bihar state and air force helicopters were dropping food to hundreds of thousand of people stranded by the rampaging river.India's monsoon season, which lasts from June to September, brings rain vital for the country's farmers but often also causes massive destruction.Despite the rescue operations under way, officials in Bihar have warned that the real danger is still ahead.When the swollen Kosi river burst its banks in Nepal just north of the Indian border, it changed course, flowing through a fresh channel 75 miles to the east that has no protective embankments.The river traditionally swells to a flood peak in October.In 2007, monsoon floods killed more than 2,200 people across South Asia and left 31 million others homeless, short of food or with other problems. The United Nations called last year's floods the worst in living memory.