Monday, August 19, 2013

JAPAN VOLANO ASHES CITY-STORMS IN US-CANADA-QUAKES

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS

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.


JAPANESE CITY COVERED WITH VOLCANIC ASH
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23751191
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/japans-sakurajima-volcano-has-largest-eruption-in-decades/11294/

Japan's Sakurajima volcano has largest eruption in decades

Staff writers-Weather Network
Sunday, August 18, 2013, 8:31 PM -
It's considered to be one of Japan's most active volcanoes and on Sunday, the Sakurajima had one of its most powerful eruptions in decades. The volcano, located in the far southwestern region of Japan's mainland on the island of Kyushu, became active at 4:31pm local time, sending an ash plume five kilometres into the air. The cloud is the tallest ever recorded for the volcano, since records began in 1955. According to public broadcaster, NHK World, visibility in the city of Kagoshima quickly deteriorated as ash spread across into populated parts of the city of 600,000 residents. Officials say there are no signs of major volcanic activity at the moment, but they are still urging caution. Sunday's eruption marked the 500th eruption this year at the mountain.

Volcanic eruption coats Japanese city with ash

TOKYO (AP) — Residents in a southern Japanese city were busy washing ash off the streets Monday after a nearby volcano spewed a record-high smoke plume into the sky.Ash wafted as high as 5 kilometers (3 miles) above the Sakurajima volcano in the southern city of Kagoshima on Sunday afternoon, forming its highest plume since the Japan Meteorological Agency started keeping records in 2006. Lava flowed about 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) from the fissure, and several huge volcanic rocks rolled down the mountainside.
Though the eruption was more massive than usual, residents of the city of about 600,000 are used to hearing from their 1,117-meter (3,664-foot) neighbor. Kagoshima officials said in a statement that this was Sakurajima's 500th eruption this year alone.Residents wore masks and raincoats and used umbrellas to shield themselves from the falling ash. Drivers turned on their headlights in the dull evening gloom, and railway service in the city was halted temporarily so ash could be removed from the tracks.Officials said no injuries or damage was reported from the volcano, which is about 10 kilometers (6 miles) east of the city.By Monday morning, the air was clearer as masked residents sprinkled water and swept up the ash. The city was mobilizing garbage trucks and water sprinklers to clean up."The smoke was a bit dramatic, but we are kind of used to it," said a city official who requested anonymity because he was not allowed to speak to the media.JMA says there are no signs of a larger eruption but similar activity may continue. It was maintaining an earlier warning that people not venture near the volcano itself.Japan is on the "Ring of Fire," the seismic faults encircling the Pacific Ocean, and has frequent earthquakes and volcanic activity.

WILDFIRE SWEEPS IDAHO
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23752096


Over 2,000 homes have been evacuated as a wildfire has spread near the central Idaho communities of Ketchum and Sun Valley.More than 1,200 fire fighters were battling the blaze and creating firebreaks in an attempt to halt the fire's progress.

More crews sent in to battle Idaho wildfire

Updated 9:16 PM ET-AUG 19,13 CBS NEWS
BOISE, Idaho Fire managers expressed optimism Sunday in their battle against a wildfire that has scorched nearly 160 square miles and forced the evacuation of 2,300 homes near the central Idaho resort communities of Ketchum and Sun Valley.Officials said the blaze had grown by only about 12 square miles because of cloud cover the day before and the arrival of additional crews and equipment. Many firefighters worked Sunday to create protective firebreaks, or gaps in vegetation."Today they're very optimistic that we will reinforce those lines in case the fire does flare up as we saw on Thursday and Friday," fire spokeswoman Shawna Hartman said.More than 1,200 people and 19 aircraft were battling the lightning-caused Beaver Creek Fire, which started Aug. 7 and was 9 percent contained. Nearly 90 fire engines also were in the region, many protecting homes in the affluent area where celebrities like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Hanks and Bruce Willis own pricey getaways.Hartman said Sunday retardant was being dropped on the flank of Bald Mountain — the Sun Valley Resort's primary ski hill — to reinforce a fire line. That meant the famed ski mountain known as "Baldy" and often used in publicity photos would have a red line of retardant visible from Ketchum.Hartman said the drop was part of a plan by fire managers to bolster protection for the tony resort town, but he noted the fire had not yet spread to the mountain.
A helicopter makes a drop on a dozer line around a home to protect it from the Beaver Creek Fire on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013 in outside of Ketchum, Idaho.
/ Ashley Smith,AP Photo/Times-News
Meanwhile, crews continued battling other wildfires across the West, including a group of fires near the Oregon city of The Dalles, on the Columbia River.Those fires were threatening about 70 homes Sunday, and some residents in the area were told to be ready to evacuate. The Oregon State Fire Marshal's office said there is fire about a mile and a half from some structures.Three wildfires were burning in the area, with the largest covering about 700 acres in The Dalles watershed. The lightning-caused fires were detected Friday. About 200 people were assigned to help combat them.In Idaho, fire managers said both of the nation's DC-10 retardant bombers have been used to battle the Beaver Creek Fire, but one experienced an engine malfunction after a drop Thursday. The jet made it back safely to Pocatello in southeastern Idaho but remains unavailable.Hartman said most of the fire's containment was on the south and west sides. The more populated areas are on its eastern side and are where the mandatory evacuations were in place.Blaine County spokeswoman Bronwyn Nickel said Idaho National Guard soldiers were manning checkpoints at evacuated neighborhoods and helping relieve local law enforcement officers. The Blaine County Sheriff's Office was warning evacuated residents not to return until notified it was safe to do so.No structures have been destroyed since a house and outbuildings burned Thursday, officials said. On the fire line, a few minor injuries were reported.Authorities have told Ketchum and Sun Valley residents to be ready to evacuate if necessary. About 2,700 people live in Ketchum, 1,400 in Sun Valley.In Utah, the last evacuation orders were scheduled to be lifted Monday after a series of mountain fires burned more than a dozen homes last week.More than 100 residents who were forced to leave Rockport Estates and Rockport Ranches, about 45 miles east of Salt Lake City, will be allowed to return in the morning, officials said.Among them are family members of a couple who got married over the weekend in a backup ceremony at a century-old church after they had to flee their original venue with the bride's wedding dress.Tawni Sprouce and Travis Mann planned to exchange their vows at her parents' home overlooking Rockport Reservoir. But the residence was among the scores evacuated after the lightning-sparked Rockport fire burned nearly 2,000 acres.First, the couple moved the wedding to a campsite at Rockport State Park near the community of Waneship. But rain pushed the ceremony inside the park's Old Church.Mann said that given the circumstances, the couple welcomed the precipitation. He said Saturday's ceremony eventually went off without a hitch.Fire officials said Sunday the Rockport fire was 70 percent contained.Utah's biggest blaze, the Patch Springs Fire, was estimated at 50 square miles and 25 percent contained Sunday. Evacuation orders were lifted for that fire, which burned 10 homes near Willow Springs, but a portion of State Highway 199 remained closed.

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,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)

THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.

STRONG STORM SWEEPS MANITOBA
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/severe-thunderstorm-warnings-in-effect-for-winnipeg-parts-of-central-manitoba/11270/

Underwater Avalanche! Melting Ice Caps Could Trigger Tsunamis

 If melting ice caps trigger rapid sea level rise, the strain that the edges of continents could experience might set off underwater landslides, new research suggests.Submarine landslides happen on every continental margin, the underwater parts of continental plates bordering oceanic plates. These underwater avalanches, which can happen when underwater slopes get hit by earthquakes or otherwise have too much weight loaded onto them, can generate dangerous tsunamis. A staggering half of all the Earth moved by submarine landslides over the past 125,000 years apparently happened between 8,000 and 15,000 years ago. "This time period coincides with the period of most rapid sea level rise following the end of the last ice age," said study co-author Daniel Brothers, a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey's Coastal and Marine Science Center in Woods Hole, Mass. [10 Tsunamis That Changed History] Since these prehistoric disasters coincided with changes in climate, previous research suggested natural global warming might have been their cause, but what exactly the link might be was unclear. To learn more, Brothers and his colleagues generated 3D computer models of the effects of 395 feet (120 meters) of sea level rise on the continental margins off North Carolina and Brazil's Amazon coast.The rapid sea level rise that happened between 8,000 and 15,000 years ago was due to melting ice caps, which were originally hundreds to thousands of feet high. These glaciers placed weight on the planet's rocky surface, building stress on faults in the Earth for millennia. The later thinning and retreat of these glaciers raised sea levels by about 395 feet, increasing the amount of pressure these critically stressed faults experienced across their entire length by an amount similar to that of the average human bite. This would be enough pressure to set off the faults, triggering underwater landslides, the models showed. The scientists added that such underwater landslides could have helped release vast quantities of methane, a greenhouse gas, from the seabed. This could have, in turn, driven profound changes in the oceans and the atmosphere, such as the warming of the climate.Brothers and his colleagues Karen Luttrell and Jason Chaytor detailed their findings online July 22 in the journal Geology.

Tropical Storm Erin moving westward in Atlantic

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Erin is moving westward over the eastern Atlantic.The storm's maximum sustained winds early Friday are near 40 mph (65 kph) with slow strengthening forecast over the next two days.Erin is centered about 430 miles (695 kilometers) west of the Cape Verde Islands and is moving west-northwest near 16 mph (26 kph). The U.S. National Hurricane Center says that general motion is expected to continue with a gradual decrease in forward speed over the next few days.

Forecasters: Erin is a tropical storm again in eastern Atlantic

MIAMI - Erin is a tropical storm again in the eastern Atlantic although it still poses no threat to land.The storm's maximum sustained winds Friday evening were 40 mph (64 kph), with higher gusts.Erin is centred about 715 miles (1,150 kilometres) west-northwest of the Cape Verde Islands and is moving northwest at 16 mph (26 kph), with a gradual decrease in speed forecast for the next day or so.The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami says the storm is expected to change little in strength over the next two days.

Many Thunderstorms...Mainly a Flood Threat

Published: Aug 19, 2013, 7:50 AM EDT weather.com

Typical of mid-late August, there will be a threat of thunderstorms over a large swath of the nation.  Also typical of the month, few of those storms will reach severe criteria.

National Forecast: Next 12 Hours

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Rainfall Forecast: Next 48 Hours

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We can't rule out a couple of storms producing a brief high wind gust in the Southeast, and hail or high winds in the Rockies and Desert Southwest.However, it's local flash flooding that will be the main concern from the western Carolinas to Georgia and the Florida Panhandle.
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Isolated storms may lead to flooding of normally dry washes and arroyos in the Desert Southwest and may trigger debris flows near burn areas.Unfortunately, some thunderstorms from northern California into the Great Basin may produce lightning and shifting winds, but little rainfall.This may either aggravate ongoing wildfires, or initiating new fires.

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EARTHQUAKES

ISAIAH 42:15
15  I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

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,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide

34 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2013-08-19 09:12:52 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)
  1. 4.5 16km WNW of Palimbang, Philippines 2013-08-19 08:05:25 UTC-04:00 534.2 km
  2. 2.6 6km WNW of Greenville, California 2013-08-19 07:12:35 UTC-04:00 1.7 km
  3. 3.6 5km W of Greenville, California 2013-08-19 07:09:55 UTC-04:00 0.0 km
  4. 3.4 6km WSW of Greenville, California 2013-08-19 07:08:20 UTC-04:00 0.0 km
  5. 4.6 25km WSW of Tres Picos, Mexico 2013-08-19 06:02:36 UTC-04:00 84.9 km
  6. 2.8 17km S of Rio Dell, California 2013-08-19 04:37:21 UTC-04:00 28.1 km
  7. 3.1 16km S of Rio Dell, California 2013-08-19 04:12:50 UTC-04:00 28.7 km
  8. 4.4 Northern East Pacific Rise 2013-08-19 04:06:06 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
  9. 2.5 21km S of Rio Dell, California 2013-08-19 04:05:35 UTC-04:00 26.9 km
  10. 3.5 15km S of Rio Dell, California 2013-08-19 04:05:05 UTC-04:00 28.9 km
  11. 4.5 Northern East Pacific Rise 2013-08-19 03:17:57 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
  12. 4.4 125km W of Lebu, Chile 2013-08-19 02:13:17 UTC-04:00 10.0 km
  13. 3.2 76km SE of Leilani Estates, Hawaii 2013-08-19 01:22:11 UTC-04:00 40.8 km
  14. 3.7 38km S of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2013-08-18 23:13:46 UTC-04:00 106.2 km
  15. 4.8 13km SE of Kishtwar, India 2013-08-18 19:53:31 UTC-04:00 45.0 km
  16. 5.3 1km WNW of Dahay, Philippines 2013-08-18 18:34:29 UTC-04:00 380.8 km
  17. 5.2 124km S of Raoul Island, New Zealand 2013-08-18 17:27:01 UTC-04:00 65.3 km
  18. 4.0 102km S of Kodiak Station, Alaska 2013-08-18 17:19:27 UTC-04:00 7.9 km
  19. 2.5 54km N of Valdez, Alaska 2013-08-18 17:15:21 UTC-04:00 0.0 km
  20. 4.7 117km NE of Hihifo, Tonga 2013-08-18 16:43:46 UTC-04:00 9.3 km
  21. 4.6 112km WSW of Farallon de Pajaros, Northern Mariana Islands 2013-08-18 16:06:56 UTC-04:00 54.0 km
  22. 2.8 59km SSW of Adak, Alaska 2013-08-18 15:37:24 UTC-04:00 30.8 km
  23. 2.7 37km SSE of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2013-08-18 15:13:15 UTC-04:00 87.8 km
  24. 2.7 44km SSW of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska 2013-08-18 13:10:08 UTC-04:00 5.1 km
  25. 2.8 58km SSE of Nikolski, Alaska 2013-08-18 12:46:51 UTC-04:00 25.6 km
  26. 4.8 40km ESE of Gengqing, China 2013-08-18 12:38:08 UTC-04:00 39.6 km
  27. 2.8 1km ESE of The Geysers, California 2013-08-18 12:32:22 UTC-04:00 2.3 km
  28. 4.2 251km SE of Lambasa, Fiji 2013-08-18 11:58:54 UTC-04:00 536.1 km
  29. 4.3 179km NW of Saumlaki, Indonesia 2013-08-18 11:25:24 UTC-04:00 127.6 km
  30. 4.8 75km SW of Yonakuni, Japan 2013-08-18 10:57:01 UTC-04:00 26.6 km
  31. 4.8 16km NNW of Luwuk, Indonesia 2013-08-18 10:54:18 UTC-04:00 21.9 km
  32. 4.4 5km S of Ndoi Island, Fiji 2013-08-18 10:49:43 UTC-04:00 573.7 km
  33. 2.8 100km SSE of Old Iliamna, Alaska 2013-08-18 09:32:19 UTC-04:00 120.3 km
  34. 4.8 247km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji 2013-08-18 09:23:29 UTC-04:00 570.9 km

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