JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER.
1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.(IN 1 HR THE STOCK MARKETS WORLDWIDE WILL CRASH)
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed:(CONFISCATED) their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.
Kazakhstan Currency Plunges by Record 23% in Shift to Free Float-Nariman Gizitdinov-Updated on August 20, 2015 — 3:46 AM EDT-bloomberg
Kazakhstan’s tenge plunged a record 23 percent after the country relinquished control of its exchange rate, becoming the latest emerging market to abandon efforts to prop up its currency after China devalued the yuan.The nation has switched to a free float and will pursue an inflation-targeting monetary policy, Prime Minister Karim Massimov told a government meeting in Astana. Supply and demand will determine the exchange rate, central bank Governor Kairat Kelimbetov said, adding that there will only be intervention if stability is threatened. The tenge sank to an all-time low of 257.21 per dollar in Almaty, data compiled by Bloomberg show.Central Asia’s biggest crude exporter is contending with sliding oil prices and weakening economic growth in China and Russia, its top trading partners. Most emerging-market currencies depreciated this month as the yuan’s steepest slide in two decades and speculation of a Federal Reserve rate increase spurred outflows.The “move follows a huge loss of competitiveness, as key trade partner Russia has allowed the ruble to depreciate significantly as commodity prices slumped,” Tom Levinson, the chief foreign-exchange and rates strategist at Sberbank CIB in Moscow, said by e-mail. The yuan’s depreciation “may be an additional factor,” he said.Russia let the ruble float freely and switched to inflation targeting in November after spending about $90 billion last year from reserves trying to contain the depreciation.The ruble has lost 46 percent of its value in the past 12 months, versus a 7.6 percent weakening for the tenge before today’s switch. As a result, Kazakhstan witnessed an influx of grain, metals, construction materials, oil products and coal from its northern neighbor, according to Kazakh business association Atameken.-Must Adjust-Vietnam devalued its currency on Wednesday for the third time this year. Kazakhstan’s central bank widened the tenge’s trading band against the dollar the same day, raising its upper trading limit to 198 per dollar.The shift by Kazakh monetary authorities could trigger similar moves by regional peers, “which would be tempted to stem competitiveness losses,” BMI Research said in a note on Wednesday, after the band widening. “We assess Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan to be most vulnerable to the weakening of the Kazakh tenge.”Kazakhstan, the world’s 18th largest producer of petroleum and other liquids, must adjust to living with a crude price of $30 to $40 per barrel, president Nursultan Nazarbayev said at meeting with state officials on Wednesday. Brent crude has plunged 59 percent from its 2014 high and is now trading at $46.91 per barrel in London.-Correct’ Imbalances-The tenge should stabilize in five to seven days, Governor Kelimbetov said, adding that the central bank isn’t targeting any particular exchange rate. Nomura Holdings Inc. said in an Aug. 12 note the currency would need to weaken to between 235 and 268 per dollar to “correct” imbalances due to the slide in commodity prices and the overvaluation of the real effective exchange rate.The shift to a free float “will create the necessary conditions for a recovery of economic growth, increased lending and investment activity, creation of new jobs and a decrease in the inflation rate to between 3 percent and 4 percent in the medium term,” Prime Minister Massimov said.The nation’s gross domestic product grew 4.3 percent in 2014 and inflation was 3.9 percent in July, down from 7.4 percent in December.“Kazakhstan like a number of other emerging countries, are trying to remain competitive at a time when the dollar is strengthening,” said Gary Dugan, chief investment officer for private banking at National Bank of Abu Dhabi PJSC.
Lira Weakens Past 3 per Dollar Sending Stocks Falling With Bonds-Constantine Courcoulas Tugce Ozsoy-Updated on August 20, 2015 — 4:46 AM EDT-bloomberg
The lira weakened past 3 per dollar for the first time, sending stocks and bonds lower, as Turkey’s economic and political woes mounted amid a selloff in emerging markets.The currency depreciated as much as 2.7 percent to trade at 3.0031 per dollar in Istanbul. It was at 2.9819 as of 11:40 a.m. local time, bringing its retreat this year to 22 percent. The Borsa Istanbul 100 Index of stocks dropped 1.8 percent to the lowest since Oct. 16. The yield on two-year government bonds jumped 40 basis points to 11.11 percent, the highest level since March 2014 on a closing basis. The cost to insure Turkish debt for five years headed for the highest since 2012.“The lira is one of a number of emerging-market currencies which is under strain largely because of domestic vulnerabilities and weaknesses,” Nicholas Spiro, the managing director of London-based Spiro Sovereign Strategy, said by e-mail. “Even if there’s a modest improvement in the external backdrop, the lira is unlikely to benefit. This is a mostly home-grown currency crisis that has yet to run its course.”The lira is this year’s second-worst emerging-market currency following inconclusive general elections in June and as Kurdish, Islamic and leftist militants have stepped up attacks in Istanbul and elsewhere over the past months. The central bank left Turkey’s interest rates unchanged on Tuesday, and signaled at a meeting with economists yesterday it may not raise borrowing costs before the Federal Reserve.Currencies across emerging markets have depreciated this month. The tenge plunged to a record after Kazakhstan relinquished control of its exchange rate, becoming the latest country to abandon efforts to prop up its currency before the U.S. raises interest rates. Vietnam devalued its currency on Wednesday for the third time this year after a similar move in China last week triggered the yuan’s steepest slide in two decades.-Rate Hold-Credit-default swaps insuring Turkish sovereign debt against default for five years rose to 283 points, the highest on a closing basis since June 6, 2012, CMA prices show. The yield on 10-year government notes increased 21 basis points to 10.47 percent.While Turkish policy makers kept borrowing costs on hold for a sixth month this week, they’ve pushed the weighted-average cost of central bank funding up more than 100 basis points to 8.67 percent as of yesterday. The bank decided to implement a tighter liquidity policy “as long as deemed necessary,” it said in a statement accompanying its rates decision.“It’s hard to find a catalyzer that can reverse lira’s decline,” said Akin Tas, vice president of derivatives trading at Istanbul-based Akbank TAS. “The market fears the central bank will remain behind the curve. Investors may have taken the Fed’s dovish statement as a sign that the Turkish central bank could be unwilling to raise rates until the first Fed rate hike to curb lira weakening.”Turkey is more reliant on capital inflows than many countries because of the size of its current-account deficit, making it among the most vulnerable economies to higher U.S. borrowing costs. Fed officials yesterday indicated concern about stubbornly low inflation, even as they signaled that an improving job market is bringing them closer to the first interest-rate increase in almost a decade.-Lira Slump-Turkey’s economy will probably grow 3 percent in 2015, less than the 5.4 percent average in the past five years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. While inflation has decelerated for two months to 6.8 percent in July, consumer-price increases remain above the central bank’s 5 percent target.There’s little information on what caused the lira’s jump on Thursday morning, according to Emre Tekin, a senior fixed income trader at Turkiye Garanti Bankasi AS. “I heard a market player bought not more than $20 million and bid at a higher level and triggered algorithms,” he said.Societe Generale SA analysts Phoenix Kalen and Roxana Hulea said the lira may depreciate to as low as 3.2088 per dollar in an e-mailed note on Wednesday.-Violence-Turkish Lira Falls Before Rate Decision-A flare up in violence yesterday added to pressure on the lira, as assailants tossed a grenade at a guard post at Istanbul’s Dolmabahce Palace and then opened fire, setting off a gun battle in the center of Turkey’s largest city. No one was killed and two members of a leftist extremist group were detained.Eight soldiers were killed when the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, detonated a land mine under an armored vehicle yesterday in the southeastern town of Siirt, state-run TRT TV reported.A Turkish multi-front offensive against terrorist groups and the collapse of a three-year truce with Kurdish militants followed parliamentary elections in June that failed to deliver a ruling majority to any one party. Talks to form a coalition government failed and Turkey may be headed for fresh elections within about three months.Nationalist opposition leader Devlet Bahceli called on Wednesday for the use of martial law in war-torn areas.(An earlier version of this story corrected the year-to-date decline in the second paragraph.)
Currency Pegs-By Kati Pohjanpalo and Ye Xie | Updated Aug 20, 2015 3:45 AM EDT-bloomberg
In the rise and fall of world powers, the currency market keeps score. A nation’s money gains value when it’s a magnet for global investors; in times of trouble it weakens. The volatility can create havoc. To keep things in check, more than half of all countries have fixed the value of their money to another currency — mostly the U.S. dollar or the euro. They’ve hammered in a peg. The tie-ups can provide stability and foster trade, as Hong Kong’s link to the dollar has since 1983. Until they don’t. To hold most pegs in place, the central bank must use foreign reserves to buy or sell in currency markets in a battle with traders to keep the exchange rate stable. If pressure builds, policy makers will be forced to give up. The peg will slip or break — with sometimes disastrous consequences.The Situation-China surprised global markets Aug. 11 with its first major devaluation of the yuan since 1994, as an economic slowdown weighed on the currency and the U.S. prepared to raise interest rates. The shift mounted pressure on trading partners, with Vietnam marking down is currency the following week and Kazakhstan moving to a free float Aug. 20. In January, Switzerland shocked traders by scrapping the franc’s three-year-old cap against the euro. The move forced the central bank in Denmark to defend the krone’s tie-up to the euro by repeatedly cutting interest rates. Russia spent the last months of 2014 struggling to halt the ruble’s steepest slide in 17 years as oil prices plunged. It abandoned efforts to manage the ruble’s flexible, or crawling, peg against a basket of currencies after spending more than $88 billion. Both Egypt and Nigeria have also effectively devalued in 2015. Though the currencies of most large countries and the 19-nation euro float freely, the trend is heading the other way: 34 percent of countries monitored by the International Monetary Fund gave the market free rein in 2014, down from 40 percent in 2008.-The Background-There are various systems for managing exchange rates, and some are more stable than others. Panama and Zimbabwe simply use the U.S. dollar as legal tender. Fixed rates are employed in countries from Bulgaria to Saudi Arabia to Venezuela. Singapore and China have employed different types of links to currencies of trading partners via bands that can move up or down. China has mostly used the arrangement to limit appreciation over the last decade, though it’s now allowing the yuan to fluctuate more in response to market forces. Hong Kong’s peg is seen as virtually impregnable because the total amount of local currency issued is backed by U.S. dollars in reserve, an arrangement known as a currency board. History is full of upheavals. The 1971 “Nixon shock” was sparked when President Richard Nixon abruptly ended the dollar’s convertibility to gold. It led to the end of the post-World War II Bretton Woods system that pegged currencies of industrialized countries to the U.S. The U.K. faced a storm in 1992, when investors including George Soros bet it wouldn’t be able to keep its pound within a pre-euro system of linked rates. It gave in on Sept. 16 and allowed the pound to float, a day known as Black Wednesday.-The Argument-Currency pegs can put a central bank at the mercy of another country’s monetary and fiscal policy, so it must copy moves on interest rates. There’s less freedom to respond to domestic goals, such as reviving growth, creating jobs or containing prices. In Hong Kong, for example, easy-money policies in the U.S. have caused a surge in inflation and home prices. So why peg? More predictability for companies and investors. Tying policy makers’ hands may also lead to more disciplined government spending. For a peg to hold, the exchange rate must be set judiciously and kept in line. Since there’s no automatic rebalancing from trade flows, it’s easy for a peg to get out of whack. That can cause a currency to lose credibility and come under attack. Some countries -– like China, Egypt and Venezuela -– keep speculators at bay with capital controls that limit how much currency can be converted or rules that require banks to trade near official rates.-The Reference Shelf-First Published Jan. 30, 2015-To contact the writers of this QuickTake:Kati Pohjanpalo in Helsinki at kpohjanpalo@bloomberg.net-Ye Xie in New York at yxie6@bloomberg.net-To contact the editor responsible for this QuickTake:-Leah Harrison Singer at lharrison@bloomberg.net
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.
Three firefighters killed battling Washington state wildfire-Reuters By Eric M. Johnson-aug 20,15-yahoonews
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Three firefighters in Washington state were killed and four injured while battling a wildfire threatening the town of Twisp, officials said on Wednesday, as more than a dozen major blazes burned in parched Western U.S. states.The deaths came as a fast-moving wildfire forced authorities late on Wednesday to order the evacuations of about 4,000 homes in Twisp and Winthrop, towns in the foothills of the Cascade mountains of north-central Washington, an emergency management team said on Facebook."I was just told that three firefighters died while battling the Twisp fire and four were injured," Washington governor Jay Inslee said in a statement.The local county sheriff in Okanogan, Frank Rogers, said the firefighters had been in a car accident before flames probably overtook the vehicle.Fires have blackened more than 1 million acres (400,000 hectares) across the arid Western region, prompting fire managers to call in help from the U.S. Army and abroad to reinforce civilian crews.Okanogan County officials were continuing to expand the evacuation zones late on Wednesday, and warned residents that forecasts over the next two days indicated strong winds that could fan the flames across dried-out forest.Oregon Governor Kate Brown toured the fire area in her state on Wednesday and joined Idaho Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter in calling up state National Guard troops backed by military aircraft to help combat blazes in their respective states.Based on "extreme fire danger", Washington state's Department of Natural Resources said on Wednesday it was moving to shut down all industrial forest activities, including timber harvest operations and road construction, across almost all of its eastern forested areas, believed to be the first such action in more than 20 years.Inslee said he requested a federal emergency declaration, which would free up resources to help cover firefighting costs.This week, the national year-to-date tally of area burned passed 7 million acres (2.9 million hectares). That figure had not been reached so early in the year for two decades.To the south of the Twisp blaze, firefighters had dug containment lines around about half of a wildfire burning on the outskirts of Chelan, Washington, a resort town, fire information officer Lorena Wisehart said.In central Oregon, wildfires near the rural community of John Day had destroyed three dozen homes and threatened many others.In the mountains of north-central Idaho, blazes that grew to 100 square miles (260 square km) forced evacuations on Tuesday from dozens of homes near the small town of Weippe.Fires in and around the Nez Perce Indian Reservation have consumed 50 homes and 80 outbuildings near the logging town of Kamiah, Idaho.In California, suffering its worst drought on record, about 2,500 people were forced to flee Christian camps east of Fresno at Hume Lake as the so-called Rough Fire crossed Highway 180, officials said. Another blaze that broke out on Wednesday near the northern California city of Livermore expanded to 2,500 acres (1012 hectares) in just hours, fire officials said.(Reporting by Eric M. Johnson in Seattle, Laura Zuckerman in Salmon, Idaho and Courtney Sherwood in Portland, Ore.; Additional reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis and Victoria Cavaliere in Los Angeles; Writing by Eric M. Johnson; Editing by Peter Cooney and Dominic Evans)
Wildfires trigger new evacuation orders across U.S. Northwest-Reuters By Eric M. Johnson and Laura Zuckerman-aug 20,15-yahoonews
SEATTLE/SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Wildfires raging across the U.S. Northwest triggered new evacuation orders for hundreds of homes as firefighters battled more than a dozen major blazes across drought-parched Western states, authorities said on Wednesday.The blazes have blackened more than 1 million acres (400,000 hectares) across the arid region, prompting fire managers to call in help from the U.S. Army and abroad.This week, the national year-to-date tally of area burned passed 7 million acres (2.9 million hectares). That figure had not been reached so early in the year for two decades.In north-central Washington state, about 200 people were forced from their residences as a cluster of fires bore down on the town of Conconully late on Tuesday, said Lorraine Utt at the county's emergency operations center.More than 1,400 other people were placed under evacuation orders across the county, Utt added, but most of them had since been allowed to return to homes.To the south, firefighters by Wednesday managed to dig containment lines around about half of a wildfire burning on the outskirts of Chelan, Washington, a resort town at the southern tip of Lake Chelan, fire information officer Lorena Wisehart said.In central Oregon, another conflagration of wildfires near the rural community of John Day had destroyed three dozen homes since the weekend and threatened many others.The state's fire marshal's office said high winds posed a challenge as ground crews fought to keep the 48,200-acre (19,500-hectare) fire away from homes and a critical power transmission line.Oregon Governor Kate Brown was due to tour the area later on Wednesday.In the mountains of north-central Idaho, a group of blazes that grew to 100 square miles (260 square km) forced evacuations on Tuesday from dozens of homes near the small town of Weippe.The so-called Clearwater Complex of fires burning in and around the Nez Perce Indian Reservation has consumed 50 homes and 80 outbuildings near the logging town of Kamiah, Idaho, since it was sparked by lightning last week.An elderly woman in the area was killed when she fell and struck her head while trying to secure her backyard chickens before fleeing the fire with her husband, authorities said.On Wednesday, flames were advancing on Kamiah from three sides as another part of the complex was reaching north toward Weippe, said federal fire information officer Dixie Dies."This fire is amoebic. It's spreading everywhere," Dies said.(Reporting by Eric M. Johnson in Seattle, Laura Zuckerman in Salmon, Idaho, and Courtney Sherwood in Portland, Ore.; Writing by Eric M. Johnson; Editing by Daniel Wallis and Peter Cooney)
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)
Atlantic may see first 2015 hurricane as 'Danny' strengthens: U.S.Reuters By Letitia Stein-aug 20,15-yahoonews
TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Danny is on track to become the first hurricane of the 2015 Atlantic season by Friday and could approach the Caribbean islands by the late weekend, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Wednesday.It is still too early to predict whether Danny, currently a tropical storm with winds gusting up to 50 miles per hour (85 kph), will impact the United States, said Dennis Feltgen, a meteorologist and spokesman for the hurricane center in Miami.Danny is the fourth named storm of what is expected to be a quieter-than-normal Atlantic hurricane season, he said.Earlier this month, U.S. government weather forecasters updated their 2015 predictions, saying they expected six to 10 named storms, with as many as four reaching hurricane status of at least 74 mph (120 kph) winds.At most, only one of the storms is considered likely to develop into a major hurricane, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's latest outlook."Danny is a great reminder that we have now entered the start of the peak the hurricane season," Feltgen said, adding that the Atlantic season runs from June 1 through Nov. 30."Don’t think for a second that anybody is off the hook," he said.So far this year, two tropical storms have hit the United States, with Ana making landfall in South Carolina in May and Bill drenching Texas in June.A major hurricane has not struck the U.S. coast since 2005, although Superstorm Sandy was near hurricane strength when it flooded downtown Manhattan and the New Jersey shore and killed 158 people in October 2012. [ID: nL1N0YI1CZ]-Contributing to this year's expected weak hurricane season is the El Niño weather pattern as well as below average sea-surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic, according to NOAA.(Editing by Frank McGurty and Susan Heavey)
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
32 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2015-08-20 09:09:07 UTCShowing event times using UTC32 earthquakes in map area
3.6 21km W of Perry, Oklahoma 2015-08-20 08:28:11 UTC 1.1 km
4.2 38km W of Trinidad, Colorado 2015-08-20 05:14:09 UTC 5.0 km
2.8 9km ESE of Gilroy, California 2015-08-20 04:03:56 UTC 5.8 km
3.4 102km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico 2015-08-20 03:32:01 UTC 13.0 km
3.4 97km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico 2015-08-20 03:30:02 UTC 108.0 km
4.4 9km SW of Lixourion, Greece 2015-08-20 02:56:50 UTC 46.7 km
4.5 150km NNW of Sola, Vanuatu 2015-08-20 02:56:30 UTC 232.8 km
3.5 13km NE of Cherokee, Oklahoma 2015-08-20 00:49:17 UTC 3.9 km
3.9 12km ENE of Cherokee, Oklahoma 2015-08-20 00:47:13 UTC 2.9 km
2.5 97km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska 2015-08-19 23:54:53 UTC 20.7 km
3.2 14km W of Helena, Oklahoma 2015-08-19 23:13:47 UTC 1.7 km
5.1 37km SSW of Nchelenge, Zambia 2015-08-19 22:15:47 UTC 15.0 km
4.6 133km ENE of Kuqa, China 2015-08-19 22:04:34 UTC 10.0 km
4.6 151km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia 2015-08-19 22:03:14 UTC 45.5 km
2.7 12km SSW of Caldwell, Kansas 2015-08-19 21:31:03 UTC 5.0 km
4.1 84km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska 2015-08-19 21:13:49 UTC 36.6 km
3.4 104km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2015-08-19 19:50:07 UTC 101.0 km
2.9 82km ENE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2015-08-19 19:46:36 UTC 25.0 km
3.1 106km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 2015-08-19 18:57:15 UTC 85.0 km
4.4 195km S of False Pass, Alaska 2015-08-19 18:44:31 UTC 10.0 km
4.6 139km S of False Pass, Alaska 2015-08-19 18:07:37 UTC 10.0 km
2.6 60km SE of Adak, Alaska 2015-08-19 17:44:09 UTC 17.8 km
2.9 76km SE of Lakeview, Oregon 2015-08-19 16:57:35 UTC 10.8 km
2.9 76km SW of Homer, Alaska 2015-08-19 15:08:55 UTC 69.8 km
4.6 172km ESE of Hachijo-jima, Japan 2015-08-19 14:04:45 UTC 35.3 km
3.1 145km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2015-08-19 13:53:49 UTC 29.0 km
4.7 234km N of Chichi-shima, Japan 2015-08-19 12:23:50 UTC 10.0 km
3.0 29km ENE of Soledad, California 2015-08-19 11:39:37 UTC 7.8 km
4.8 112km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2015-08-19 11:04:26 UTC 89.0 km
4.5 19km ESE of Lucaogou, China 2015-08-19 11:02:12 UTC 29.2 km
3.2 122km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico 2015-08-19 09:52:00 UTC 69.0 km
2.7 109km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic 2015-08-19 09:46:35 UTC 46.0 km
HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER
DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.
JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.(IN 1 HR THE STOCK MARKETS WORLDWIDE WILL CRASH)
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed:(CONFISCATED) their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.
Kazakhstan Currency Plunges by Record 23% in Shift to Free Float-Nariman Gizitdinov-Updated on August 20, 2015 — 3:46 AM EDT-bloomberg
Kazakhstan’s tenge plunged a record 23 percent after the country relinquished control of its exchange rate, becoming the latest emerging market to abandon efforts to prop up its currency after China devalued the yuan.The nation has switched to a free float and will pursue an inflation-targeting monetary policy, Prime Minister Karim Massimov told a government meeting in Astana. Supply and demand will determine the exchange rate, central bank Governor Kairat Kelimbetov said, adding that there will only be intervention if stability is threatened. The tenge sank to an all-time low of 257.21 per dollar in Almaty, data compiled by Bloomberg show.Central Asia’s biggest crude exporter is contending with sliding oil prices and weakening economic growth in China and Russia, its top trading partners. Most emerging-market currencies depreciated this month as the yuan’s steepest slide in two decades and speculation of a Federal Reserve rate increase spurred outflows.The “move follows a huge loss of competitiveness, as key trade partner Russia has allowed the ruble to depreciate significantly as commodity prices slumped,” Tom Levinson, the chief foreign-exchange and rates strategist at Sberbank CIB in Moscow, said by e-mail. The yuan’s depreciation “may be an additional factor,” he said.Russia let the ruble float freely and switched to inflation targeting in November after spending about $90 billion last year from reserves trying to contain the depreciation.The ruble has lost 46 percent of its value in the past 12 months, versus a 7.6 percent weakening for the tenge before today’s switch. As a result, Kazakhstan witnessed an influx of grain, metals, construction materials, oil products and coal from its northern neighbor, according to Kazakh business association Atameken.-Must Adjust-Vietnam devalued its currency on Wednesday for the third time this year. Kazakhstan’s central bank widened the tenge’s trading band against the dollar the same day, raising its upper trading limit to 198 per dollar.The shift by Kazakh monetary authorities could trigger similar moves by regional peers, “which would be tempted to stem competitiveness losses,” BMI Research said in a note on Wednesday, after the band widening. “We assess Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan to be most vulnerable to the weakening of the Kazakh tenge.”Kazakhstan, the world’s 18th largest producer of petroleum and other liquids, must adjust to living with a crude price of $30 to $40 per barrel, president Nursultan Nazarbayev said at meeting with state officials on Wednesday. Brent crude has plunged 59 percent from its 2014 high and is now trading at $46.91 per barrel in London.-Correct’ Imbalances-The tenge should stabilize in five to seven days, Governor Kelimbetov said, adding that the central bank isn’t targeting any particular exchange rate. Nomura Holdings Inc. said in an Aug. 12 note the currency would need to weaken to between 235 and 268 per dollar to “correct” imbalances due to the slide in commodity prices and the overvaluation of the real effective exchange rate.The shift to a free float “will create the necessary conditions for a recovery of economic growth, increased lending and investment activity, creation of new jobs and a decrease in the inflation rate to between 3 percent and 4 percent in the medium term,” Prime Minister Massimov said.The nation’s gross domestic product grew 4.3 percent in 2014 and inflation was 3.9 percent in July, down from 7.4 percent in December.“Kazakhstan like a number of other emerging countries, are trying to remain competitive at a time when the dollar is strengthening,” said Gary Dugan, chief investment officer for private banking at National Bank of Abu Dhabi PJSC.
Lira Weakens Past 3 per Dollar Sending Stocks Falling With Bonds-Constantine Courcoulas Tugce Ozsoy-Updated on August 20, 2015 — 4:46 AM EDT-bloomberg
The lira weakened past 3 per dollar for the first time, sending stocks and bonds lower, as Turkey’s economic and political woes mounted amid a selloff in emerging markets.The currency depreciated as much as 2.7 percent to trade at 3.0031 per dollar in Istanbul. It was at 2.9819 as of 11:40 a.m. local time, bringing its retreat this year to 22 percent. The Borsa Istanbul 100 Index of stocks dropped 1.8 percent to the lowest since Oct. 16. The yield on two-year government bonds jumped 40 basis points to 11.11 percent, the highest level since March 2014 on a closing basis. The cost to insure Turkish debt for five years headed for the highest since 2012.“The lira is one of a number of emerging-market currencies which is under strain largely because of domestic vulnerabilities and weaknesses,” Nicholas Spiro, the managing director of London-based Spiro Sovereign Strategy, said by e-mail. “Even if there’s a modest improvement in the external backdrop, the lira is unlikely to benefit. This is a mostly home-grown currency crisis that has yet to run its course.”The lira is this year’s second-worst emerging-market currency following inconclusive general elections in June and as Kurdish, Islamic and leftist militants have stepped up attacks in Istanbul and elsewhere over the past months. The central bank left Turkey’s interest rates unchanged on Tuesday, and signaled at a meeting with economists yesterday it may not raise borrowing costs before the Federal Reserve.Currencies across emerging markets have depreciated this month. The tenge plunged to a record after Kazakhstan relinquished control of its exchange rate, becoming the latest country to abandon efforts to prop up its currency before the U.S. raises interest rates. Vietnam devalued its currency on Wednesday for the third time this year after a similar move in China last week triggered the yuan’s steepest slide in two decades.-Rate Hold-Credit-default swaps insuring Turkish sovereign debt against default for five years rose to 283 points, the highest on a closing basis since June 6, 2012, CMA prices show. The yield on 10-year government notes increased 21 basis points to 10.47 percent.While Turkish policy makers kept borrowing costs on hold for a sixth month this week, they’ve pushed the weighted-average cost of central bank funding up more than 100 basis points to 8.67 percent as of yesterday. The bank decided to implement a tighter liquidity policy “as long as deemed necessary,” it said in a statement accompanying its rates decision.“It’s hard to find a catalyzer that can reverse lira’s decline,” said Akin Tas, vice president of derivatives trading at Istanbul-based Akbank TAS. “The market fears the central bank will remain behind the curve. Investors may have taken the Fed’s dovish statement as a sign that the Turkish central bank could be unwilling to raise rates until the first Fed rate hike to curb lira weakening.”Turkey is more reliant on capital inflows than many countries because of the size of its current-account deficit, making it among the most vulnerable economies to higher U.S. borrowing costs. Fed officials yesterday indicated concern about stubbornly low inflation, even as they signaled that an improving job market is bringing them closer to the first interest-rate increase in almost a decade.-Lira Slump-Turkey’s economy will probably grow 3 percent in 2015, less than the 5.4 percent average in the past five years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. While inflation has decelerated for two months to 6.8 percent in July, consumer-price increases remain above the central bank’s 5 percent target.There’s little information on what caused the lira’s jump on Thursday morning, according to Emre Tekin, a senior fixed income trader at Turkiye Garanti Bankasi AS. “I heard a market player bought not more than $20 million and bid at a higher level and triggered algorithms,” he said.Societe Generale SA analysts Phoenix Kalen and Roxana Hulea said the lira may depreciate to as low as 3.2088 per dollar in an e-mailed note on Wednesday.-Violence-Turkish Lira Falls Before Rate Decision-A flare up in violence yesterday added to pressure on the lira, as assailants tossed a grenade at a guard post at Istanbul’s Dolmabahce Palace and then opened fire, setting off a gun battle in the center of Turkey’s largest city. No one was killed and two members of a leftist extremist group were detained.Eight soldiers were killed when the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, detonated a land mine under an armored vehicle yesterday in the southeastern town of Siirt, state-run TRT TV reported.A Turkish multi-front offensive against terrorist groups and the collapse of a three-year truce with Kurdish militants followed parliamentary elections in June that failed to deliver a ruling majority to any one party. Talks to form a coalition government failed and Turkey may be headed for fresh elections within about three months.Nationalist opposition leader Devlet Bahceli called on Wednesday for the use of martial law in war-torn areas.(An earlier version of this story corrected the year-to-date decline in the second paragraph.)
Currency Pegs-By Kati Pohjanpalo and Ye Xie | Updated Aug 20, 2015 3:45 AM EDT-bloomberg
In the rise and fall of world powers, the currency market keeps score. A nation’s money gains value when it’s a magnet for global investors; in times of trouble it weakens. The volatility can create havoc. To keep things in check, more than half of all countries have fixed the value of their money to another currency — mostly the U.S. dollar or the euro. They’ve hammered in a peg. The tie-ups can provide stability and foster trade, as Hong Kong’s link to the dollar has since 1983. Until they don’t. To hold most pegs in place, the central bank must use foreign reserves to buy or sell in currency markets in a battle with traders to keep the exchange rate stable. If pressure builds, policy makers will be forced to give up. The peg will slip or break — with sometimes disastrous consequences.The Situation-China surprised global markets Aug. 11 with its first major devaluation of the yuan since 1994, as an economic slowdown weighed on the currency and the U.S. prepared to raise interest rates. The shift mounted pressure on trading partners, with Vietnam marking down is currency the following week and Kazakhstan moving to a free float Aug. 20. In January, Switzerland shocked traders by scrapping the franc’s three-year-old cap against the euro. The move forced the central bank in Denmark to defend the krone’s tie-up to the euro by repeatedly cutting interest rates. Russia spent the last months of 2014 struggling to halt the ruble’s steepest slide in 17 years as oil prices plunged. It abandoned efforts to manage the ruble’s flexible, or crawling, peg against a basket of currencies after spending more than $88 billion. Both Egypt and Nigeria have also effectively devalued in 2015. Though the currencies of most large countries and the 19-nation euro float freely, the trend is heading the other way: 34 percent of countries monitored by the International Monetary Fund gave the market free rein in 2014, down from 40 percent in 2008.-The Background-There are various systems for managing exchange rates, and some are more stable than others. Panama and Zimbabwe simply use the U.S. dollar as legal tender. Fixed rates are employed in countries from Bulgaria to Saudi Arabia to Venezuela. Singapore and China have employed different types of links to currencies of trading partners via bands that can move up or down. China has mostly used the arrangement to limit appreciation over the last decade, though it’s now allowing the yuan to fluctuate more in response to market forces. Hong Kong’s peg is seen as virtually impregnable because the total amount of local currency issued is backed by U.S. dollars in reserve, an arrangement known as a currency board. History is full of upheavals. The 1971 “Nixon shock” was sparked when President Richard Nixon abruptly ended the dollar’s convertibility to gold. It led to the end of the post-World War II Bretton Woods system that pegged currencies of industrialized countries to the U.S. The U.K. faced a storm in 1992, when investors including George Soros bet it wouldn’t be able to keep its pound within a pre-euro system of linked rates. It gave in on Sept. 16 and allowed the pound to float, a day known as Black Wednesday.-The Argument-Currency pegs can put a central bank at the mercy of another country’s monetary and fiscal policy, so it must copy moves on interest rates. There’s less freedom to respond to domestic goals, such as reviving growth, creating jobs or containing prices. In Hong Kong, for example, easy-money policies in the U.S. have caused a surge in inflation and home prices. So why peg? More predictability for companies and investors. Tying policy makers’ hands may also lead to more disciplined government spending. For a peg to hold, the exchange rate must be set judiciously and kept in line. Since there’s no automatic rebalancing from trade flows, it’s easy for a peg to get out of whack. That can cause a currency to lose credibility and come under attack. Some countries -– like China, Egypt and Venezuela -– keep speculators at bay with capital controls that limit how much currency can be converted or rules that require banks to trade near official rates.-The Reference Shelf-First Published Jan. 30, 2015-To contact the writers of this QuickTake:Kati Pohjanpalo in Helsinki at kpohjanpalo@bloomberg.net-Ye Xie in New York at yxie6@bloomberg.net-To contact the editor responsible for this QuickTake:-Leah Harrison Singer at lharrison@bloomberg.net
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.
Three firefighters killed battling Washington state wildfire-Reuters By Eric M. Johnson-aug 20,15-yahoonews
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Three firefighters in Washington state were killed and four injured while battling a wildfire threatening the town of Twisp, officials said on Wednesday, as more than a dozen major blazes burned in parched Western U.S. states.The deaths came as a fast-moving wildfire forced authorities late on Wednesday to order the evacuations of about 4,000 homes in Twisp and Winthrop, towns in the foothills of the Cascade mountains of north-central Washington, an emergency management team said on Facebook."I was just told that three firefighters died while battling the Twisp fire and four were injured," Washington governor Jay Inslee said in a statement.The local county sheriff in Okanogan, Frank Rogers, said the firefighters had been in a car accident before flames probably overtook the vehicle.Fires have blackened more than 1 million acres (400,000 hectares) across the arid Western region, prompting fire managers to call in help from the U.S. Army and abroad to reinforce civilian crews.Okanogan County officials were continuing to expand the evacuation zones late on Wednesday, and warned residents that forecasts over the next two days indicated strong winds that could fan the flames across dried-out forest.Oregon Governor Kate Brown toured the fire area in her state on Wednesday and joined Idaho Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter in calling up state National Guard troops backed by military aircraft to help combat blazes in their respective states.Based on "extreme fire danger", Washington state's Department of Natural Resources said on Wednesday it was moving to shut down all industrial forest activities, including timber harvest operations and road construction, across almost all of its eastern forested areas, believed to be the first such action in more than 20 years.Inslee said he requested a federal emergency declaration, which would free up resources to help cover firefighting costs.This week, the national year-to-date tally of area burned passed 7 million acres (2.9 million hectares). That figure had not been reached so early in the year for two decades.To the south of the Twisp blaze, firefighters had dug containment lines around about half of a wildfire burning on the outskirts of Chelan, Washington, a resort town, fire information officer Lorena Wisehart said.In central Oregon, wildfires near the rural community of John Day had destroyed three dozen homes and threatened many others.In the mountains of north-central Idaho, blazes that grew to 100 square miles (260 square km) forced evacuations on Tuesday from dozens of homes near the small town of Weippe.Fires in and around the Nez Perce Indian Reservation have consumed 50 homes and 80 outbuildings near the logging town of Kamiah, Idaho.In California, suffering its worst drought on record, about 2,500 people were forced to flee Christian camps east of Fresno at Hume Lake as the so-called Rough Fire crossed Highway 180, officials said. Another blaze that broke out on Wednesday near the northern California city of Livermore expanded to 2,500 acres (1012 hectares) in just hours, fire officials said.(Reporting by Eric M. Johnson in Seattle, Laura Zuckerman in Salmon, Idaho and Courtney Sherwood in Portland, Ore.; Additional reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis and Victoria Cavaliere in Los Angeles; Writing by Eric M. Johnson; Editing by Peter Cooney and Dominic Evans)
Wildfires trigger new evacuation orders across U.S. Northwest-Reuters By Eric M. Johnson and Laura Zuckerman-aug 20,15-yahoonews
SEATTLE/SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Wildfires raging across the U.S. Northwest triggered new evacuation orders for hundreds of homes as firefighters battled more than a dozen major blazes across drought-parched Western states, authorities said on Wednesday.The blazes have blackened more than 1 million acres (400,000 hectares) across the arid region, prompting fire managers to call in help from the U.S. Army and abroad.This week, the national year-to-date tally of area burned passed 7 million acres (2.9 million hectares). That figure had not been reached so early in the year for two decades.In north-central Washington state, about 200 people were forced from their residences as a cluster of fires bore down on the town of Conconully late on Tuesday, said Lorraine Utt at the county's emergency operations center.More than 1,400 other people were placed under evacuation orders across the county, Utt added, but most of them had since been allowed to return to homes.To the south, firefighters by Wednesday managed to dig containment lines around about half of a wildfire burning on the outskirts of Chelan, Washington, a resort town at the southern tip of Lake Chelan, fire information officer Lorena Wisehart said.In central Oregon, another conflagration of wildfires near the rural community of John Day had destroyed three dozen homes since the weekend and threatened many others.The state's fire marshal's office said high winds posed a challenge as ground crews fought to keep the 48,200-acre (19,500-hectare) fire away from homes and a critical power transmission line.Oregon Governor Kate Brown was due to tour the area later on Wednesday.In the mountains of north-central Idaho, a group of blazes that grew to 100 square miles (260 square km) forced evacuations on Tuesday from dozens of homes near the small town of Weippe.The so-called Clearwater Complex of fires burning in and around the Nez Perce Indian Reservation has consumed 50 homes and 80 outbuildings near the logging town of Kamiah, Idaho, since it was sparked by lightning last week.An elderly woman in the area was killed when she fell and struck her head while trying to secure her backyard chickens before fleeing the fire with her husband, authorities said.On Wednesday, flames were advancing on Kamiah from three sides as another part of the complex was reaching north toward Weippe, said federal fire information officer Dixie Dies."This fire is amoebic. It's spreading everywhere," Dies said.(Reporting by Eric M. Johnson in Seattle, Laura Zuckerman in Salmon, Idaho, and Courtney Sherwood in Portland, Ore.; Writing by Eric M. Johnson; Editing by Daniel Wallis and Peter Cooney)
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)
Atlantic may see first 2015 hurricane as 'Danny' strengthens: U.S.Reuters By Letitia Stein-aug 20,15-yahoonews
TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Danny is on track to become the first hurricane of the 2015 Atlantic season by Friday and could approach the Caribbean islands by the late weekend, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Wednesday.It is still too early to predict whether Danny, currently a tropical storm with winds gusting up to 50 miles per hour (85 kph), will impact the United States, said Dennis Feltgen, a meteorologist and spokesman for the hurricane center in Miami.Danny is the fourth named storm of what is expected to be a quieter-than-normal Atlantic hurricane season, he said.Earlier this month, U.S. government weather forecasters updated their 2015 predictions, saying they expected six to 10 named storms, with as many as four reaching hurricane status of at least 74 mph (120 kph) winds.At most, only one of the storms is considered likely to develop into a major hurricane, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's latest outlook."Danny is a great reminder that we have now entered the start of the peak the hurricane season," Feltgen said, adding that the Atlantic season runs from June 1 through Nov. 30."Don’t think for a second that anybody is off the hook," he said.So far this year, two tropical storms have hit the United States, with Ana making landfall in South Carolina in May and Bill drenching Texas in June.A major hurricane has not struck the U.S. coast since 2005, although Superstorm Sandy was near hurricane strength when it flooded downtown Manhattan and the New Jersey shore and killed 158 people in October 2012. [ID: nL1N0YI1CZ]-Contributing to this year's expected weak hurricane season is the El Niño weather pattern as well as below average sea-surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic, according to NOAA.(Editing by Frank McGurty and Susan Heavey)
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
32 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2015-08-20 09:09:07 UTCShowing event times using UTC32 earthquakes in map area
3.6 21km W of Perry, Oklahoma 2015-08-20 08:28:11 UTC 1.1 km
4.2 38km W of Trinidad, Colorado 2015-08-20 05:14:09 UTC 5.0 km
2.8 9km ESE of Gilroy, California 2015-08-20 04:03:56 UTC 5.8 km
3.4 102km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico 2015-08-20 03:32:01 UTC 13.0 km
3.4 97km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico 2015-08-20 03:30:02 UTC 108.0 km
4.4 9km SW of Lixourion, Greece 2015-08-20 02:56:50 UTC 46.7 km
4.5 150km NNW of Sola, Vanuatu 2015-08-20 02:56:30 UTC 232.8 km
3.5 13km NE of Cherokee, Oklahoma 2015-08-20 00:49:17 UTC 3.9 km
3.9 12km ENE of Cherokee, Oklahoma 2015-08-20 00:47:13 UTC 2.9 km
2.5 97km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska 2015-08-19 23:54:53 UTC 20.7 km
3.2 14km W of Helena, Oklahoma 2015-08-19 23:13:47 UTC 1.7 km
5.1 37km SSW of Nchelenge, Zambia 2015-08-19 22:15:47 UTC 15.0 km
4.6 133km ENE of Kuqa, China 2015-08-19 22:04:34 UTC 10.0 km
4.6 151km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia 2015-08-19 22:03:14 UTC 45.5 km
2.7 12km SSW of Caldwell, Kansas 2015-08-19 21:31:03 UTC 5.0 km
4.1 84km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska 2015-08-19 21:13:49 UTC 36.6 km
3.4 104km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2015-08-19 19:50:07 UTC 101.0 km
2.9 82km ENE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2015-08-19 19:46:36 UTC 25.0 km
3.1 106km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 2015-08-19 18:57:15 UTC 85.0 km
4.4 195km S of False Pass, Alaska 2015-08-19 18:44:31 UTC 10.0 km
4.6 139km S of False Pass, Alaska 2015-08-19 18:07:37 UTC 10.0 km
2.6 60km SE of Adak, Alaska 2015-08-19 17:44:09 UTC 17.8 km
2.9 76km SE of Lakeview, Oregon 2015-08-19 16:57:35 UTC 10.8 km
2.9 76km SW of Homer, Alaska 2015-08-19 15:08:55 UTC 69.8 km
4.6 172km ESE of Hachijo-jima, Japan 2015-08-19 14:04:45 UTC 35.3 km
3.1 145km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2015-08-19 13:53:49 UTC 29.0 km
4.7 234km N of Chichi-shima, Japan 2015-08-19 12:23:50 UTC 10.0 km
3.0 29km ENE of Soledad, California 2015-08-19 11:39:37 UTC 7.8 km
4.8 112km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2015-08-19 11:04:26 UTC 89.0 km
4.5 19km ESE of Lucaogou, China 2015-08-19 11:02:12 UTC 29.2 km
3.2 122km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico 2015-08-19 09:52:00 UTC 69.0 km
2.7 109km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic 2015-08-19 09:46:35 UTC 46.0 km
