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)
OTHER STORMS-QUAKES NEWS
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STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS ETC) 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.
Landslide hits makeshift homes in Pakistan, killing 13-Associated Press-OCT 13,15-YAHOONEWS
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Police say a landslide has hit three makeshift homes in a slum in Pakistan's port city of Karachi, killing 13 people.Senior police officer Javed Jaskani says the incident took place early Tuesday when a mass of mud and rocks crashed down a hill into camps in Karachi, the capital of southern Sindh province. He says women and children were among the dead and injured.State-run television says Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has expressed grief over the incident and instructed authorities to aid the families of the victims.Karachi is Pakistan's largest city and many poor laborers working there live in slums and makeshift homes near hills.
Myanmar proposes delaying Nov. 8 general election due to landslides, flooding-The Canadian PressBy Aung Shine Oo, The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – OCT 13,15-YAHOONEWS
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar - Myanmar's election commission on Tuesday proposed delaying the Nov. 8 general election either nationwide or in some areas hit by landslides and flooding.Union Election Commission Chairman Tin Aye told reporters that the election to choose a new parliament "might be delayed."He made the comment after meeting with different political parties to propose the postponement. The opposition National League for Democracy party led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi said it is against a delay.Tin Aye said the commission would release a statement in about two days with a possible new election date.He didn't say whether the polls might be delayed nationwide or only in areas affected by landslides and flooding in western and northwestern Myanmar."Why don't you ... just wait until the statement is released, it could be nationwide too," Tin Aye said.The general election is supposed to be followed by a presidential election early next year when the army and the elected members of parliament nominate a total of three candidates, and then all lawmakers vote for the president.Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist nation, began moving from a half-century of military rule toward democracy in 2011 when a nominally civilian government, led by a pro-military party, took office. Though there are many concerns — including the exclusion of ethnic Rohingya Muslims from the process and irregularities in voting lists — most observers believe the upcoming elections are the country's best chance in decades for relatively free and credible polls.If the elections are credible, most observers believe Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy will win the most seats in parliament, and could even control a majority by forming a coalition with smaller parties.
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.
The Latest on Kansas City fire: Chief: Firefighters had evacuated building when killed-The Canadian PressBy The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – OCT 13,15-YAHOONEWS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The latest on the collapse of a burning apartment building in Kansas City that killed two firefighters (all times local):7:55 a.m.-The Kansas City fire chief says two firefighters were killed when a section of a burning building collapsed, blowing a wall outward about 30 feet and trapping them.Chief Paul Berardi choked back tears as he spoke of Larry J. Leggio and John V. Mesh who were killed when the wall collapsed onto them Monday night. Two others were injured fighting the fire at the building that had businesses on the ground level and apartments above.He says the collapse happened after the building had been evacuated and that it appears a second-story section collapsed, forcing a wall outward about 30 feet. The firefighters killed and two others who were injured were outside the building working to protect a grocery store separated from the burning structure by an alley.
7:35 a.m.-Kansas City authorities have identified two firefighters who were killed when a wall collapsed on them in a burning building.The firefighters died Monday night as a massive fire engulfed the building on the city's northeast side.During an emotional news conference early Tuesday, Fire Chief Paul Berardi identified the firefighters as 17-year department veteran Larry J. Leggio and 13-year veteran John V. Mesh.He didn't provide their ages.Berardi says the two died after rescuing at least two residents from the apartment building blaze.Two other firefighters were injured. Berardi says one has been released from the hospital, and the other may be released Tuesday.Crews were still at the scene of the fire early Tuesday. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
6:45 a.m.-A Kansas City apartment building that collapsed, killing two firefighters, is still burning 12 hours after the blaze began.Fire Chief Paul Berardi says two other firefighters were injured Monday night as the massive fire engulfed the building on the city's northeast side.Berardi says the two who died saved two residents shortly before the building collapsed around them. He says they "did not die in vain."
Wildfires burn homes, prompt evacuations in Wyoming, Idaho-Reuters By Laura Zuckerman-OCT 13,15-YAHOONEWS
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Hundreds of Wyoming residents were forced to flee a wind-driven wildfire that destroyed at least 10 homes even as a separate blaze in neighboring Idaho burned several cabins to the ground and prompted dozens to evacuate, fire managers said on Monday.The fire that broke out on Saturday evening in a brush pile at a landfill north of Wyoming's second largest city of Casper has charred 10,000 acres (4,000 hectares) of grasslands and trees and led to the evacuation of more than 300 residents, said Bob Fawcett, fire marshal with the Natrona County Fire Protection District.At least 10 houses and an unknown number of outbuildings have been lost to a blaze fed by winds that gusted up to 60 miles an hour (95 kph) over the weekend amid bone-dry conditions, he said.That fire and a blaze in southwest Idaho that has destroyed three cabins and forced about 80 people from their homes since igniting Saturday near the small mountain town of Idaho City have come at a time the fire season in the Northern Rockies is usually drawing to a close, officials said."We're not used to seeing a threat this severe so late in the season," said Fawcett.Drought and unusually warm temperatures that have persisted in much of the region have been cited by U.S. fire managers as key factors in a 2015 fire season in the U.S. West that brought the most destructive blaze in California history and the largest on record in Washington state.Climate changes affecting Western states in recent years have caused the fire season to start earlier and last longer, fire managers have said. Wildfires have consumed more than 9.2 million acres (3.7 million hectares) across the United States so far this year, compared to the 10-year average of nearly 6.4 million acres (2.6 million hectares), according to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise.Wyoming fire officials estimated containment of the blaze outside Casper at 50 percent on Monday amid predictions of high winds.That fire and the one in Idaho, which has blackened an estimated 2,500 acres (1,000 hectares) in the southwest part of the state, are believed to have been caused by humans but investigations are ongoing, authorities said.(Editing by Sharon Bernstein and Sandra Maler)
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.
Experts urge Canadians to take part in earthquake drill Oct. 15-The Canadian PressBy Peter Rakobowchuk, The Canadian Press | The Canadian Press – oct 13,15-yahoonews
MONTREAL - Get ready for the Great Shakeout.On Thursday, drills in British Columbia and Quebec will provide people with the opportunity to learn how to be safer during earthquakes.B.C. organizers say 750,000 people have registered for that province's event, which will see participants drop to the ground at 10:15 a.m. local time, take cover by getting under a table or desk and hold on for about 60 to 90 seconds. The exercise, which happens yearly on the third Thursday in October, was first held in British Columbia in 2011.Alison Bird, a seismologist with Natural Resources Canada, is urging Canadians to take steps to prepare for an earthquake — not just in southwestern B.C. where there's a high risk — but across the country.Bird says some groups in Ontario will also be doing the drill, but it is not provincewide.She stresses the worst thing a person can do is to run through a building when a quake hits."When you're in a stressful situation your brain is not functioning properly so your body wants to do the instinctive thing, which is to run," she said, adding that the most dangerous place to be is just around the outside of a building.Bird says people need to be taught to drop, find cover and hold on if an earthquake hits."It's really important to create that muscle memory so that you do the right thing in an earthquake," she said.Over the centuries, earthquakes in Canada have claimed at least 30 lives, with most of them victims of a tsunami that hit Newfoundland in 1929.People living on Moresby Island, off the B.C. mainland, have been coping with their share of earthquakes over the years.Bill Beldessi, the director of Moresby Island regional district, remembers the 2012 quake in the Haida Gwaii region that measured 7.8 on the Richter scale."It was probably one of the worst one since I've lived here," he said in an interview from Sandspit, B.C."I was in bed and I noticed the light fixtures started making noises and a few things dropped off the wall and then a couple of aftershocks happened within five minutes."Beldessi, 66, says everyone headed for higher ground.That threat of massive tidal waves also prompted the community to pull together and set up an emergency centre."That's what we're doing right now,'' he said. ''We have a tsunami centre up in the hills and it's full stocked."As far as the big one, who knows when it's going to come — we don't lay awake worrying about it."We constantly have earth tremors here so it's not a big deal when we get something around three-and-a half or (magnitude) four. It's normal."Bird says people living in Victoria have a one-in-three chance of experiencing a damaging earthquake over the next 50 years.For Vancouver, there's a one-in-five chance.The danger is lower in the B.C. Interior, but Bird cautions ''there's nowhere that has zero hazard for earthquakes."The hazard decreases further inland and while provinces like Saskatchewan and Manitoba can experience quakes, the threat there is low.Bird says there are approximately 4,000 earthquakes a year in the West and about another 2,000 in the East."So it's a very active country for earthquakes. . . we really have to try to get people to recognize that that's the case."Her colleague, Maurice Lamontagne, who monitors Eastern Canada, says there are three active seismic zones in Quebec.He says 60 earthquakes are registered yearly in the west Quebec region, which includes the Laurentians, Montreal, Ottawa and eastern Ontario.Another seismic zone is the Charlevoix region northeast of Quebec City where two children died in an 1866 quake.The third seismic zone in Quebec is the Lower St-Lawrence region and Lamontagne says it's mainly under the river that the 60 yearly quakes are produced.The seismologist adds that neighbouring New Brunswick has had its share of quakes and continues to register small ones.Lamontagne warns there could be a repeat of the 7.2 earthquake off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland that was followed by a tsunami. It killed 28 people as waves carried away several villages in the Burin Peninsula."Absolutely!, there could be earthquakes that could cause tsunamis like that one," he said in an interview.
Cushing quake follows rules to curb seismic activity tied to wells-Reuters-October 11, 2015 11:02 AM-YAHOONEWS
HOUSTON (Reuters) - An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.5 that struck near the U.S. crude oil hub of Cushing, Oklahoma on Saturday occurred just days after regulators imposed new rules meant to prevent temblors in the area and said more changes were possible.The Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC), which regulates the state's oil and gas industry, ordered companies on Sept. 18 to shut or reduce usage of five saltwater disposal wells around the north-central Oklahoma city of Cushing.Saltwater, a normal byproduct of oil and gas work, is put into deep disposal wells that scientists say have contributed to a rash of small and medium-sized earthquakes in Oklahoma since 2009.At the time of its latest directive, the OCC said its "plan may be altered as more data is made available".On Sunday, some people on social media, fearing a quake could cause a fire or explosion in Cushing in the future, were already calling for tougher rules."This needs to stop," read a comment at NPR's StateImpact. "The injection wells & fracking are wrecking Cushing."Saltwater disposal needs have grown in tandem with the boom in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.Saturday's quake reported by the U.S. Geological Survey was shallow and centered 5 km (3 miles) from Cushing. [L1N12A0K6]-There were no reports of injuries or damages to the vast network of pipelines and tanks that make up the U.S. oil storage hub, which serves as the reference point for futures traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange.The Cushing quake was the second significant quake to hit the state in a day, the USGS said, after one with 4.4 magnitude struck near Medford, about 80 miles (130 km) northwest of Cushing, on Saturday morning.Noticeable quakes, above magnitude 3.0, now strike Oklahoma at a rate of two per day or more, compared with two or so per year before 2009.Despite resistance from oil producers, the OCC has previously required disposal well operators to show they are not injecting water below the state's deepest rock formation, a practice believed to contribute to seismic activity.The first set of rules the OCC issued on Aug. 4 told 12 operators of 23 wells that they had 60 days to reduce the amount of saltwater being injected into wells.The standards have affected only a fraction of the state's approximately 3,500 saltwater disposal wells.(Reporting By Terry Wade; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
Los Angeles approves sweeping earthquake building-safety rules-Reuters By Daina Beth Solomon-October 9, 2015 9:51 PM-YAHOONEWS
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles on Friday approved safety standards that will require earthquake retrofits at thousands of apartment buildings and establish the nation's toughest rules for structurally weak concrete buildings.The rules will apply to 13,500 wood-frame buildings with so-called soft first-stories, which often consist of thin pillars supporting upper floors in an area where tenants park, and 1,500 so-called brittle concrete buildings, which lack the ability to waver or bend in a temblor, the mayor's office said.Many soft first-story buildings are rent-stabilized, which prompted concerns that any damage to the residences would wipe out Los Angeles' already limited affordable-housing stock.San Francisco and a few other California cities have instituted rules for soft first-story buildings.But the Los Angeles ordinance, which passed the City Council by a unanimous vote on Friday and was quickly signed by Mayor Eric Garcetti, marks the first time a U.S. city has mandated retrofits of brittle concrete buildings, said U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Lucy Jones, who last year was hired by Los Angeles as an adviser on earthquake safety."I applaud the mayor and City Council for their commitment to a safer Los Angeles that will be here for future generations," Jones said.Owners of the brittle concrete properties, which also are called non-ductile concrete buildings, will have 25 years to complete strengthening upgrades while owners of soft first-story wood-frame properties will have seven years to finish the work, officials said.The vulnerability of soft first-story buildings, many of which were built in the 1960s as apartments with tuck-under parking, became clear in the 1994 Northridge earthquake when one collapsed in Los Angeles and killed 16 people.California cities are seen as facing a high risk of extensive damage from weak buildings in an earthquake, and officials have warned that based on historical patterns the state could be due for a major temblor."We’re leading the nation in requiring this level of building safety retrofit before, not after, the big quake we know is coming," Garcetti said in a statement.Los Angeles officials have not made any firm commitment to help fund the sweeping retrofits at commercial and apartment buildings, and plans to pay for the work are still being formulated.(Reporting by Daina Beth Solomon; Editing by Alex Dobuzinskis and Eric Beech)
UPDATE-OCTOBER 14, 2015-09:00PM
1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
34 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2015-10-15 00:51:11 UTCShowing event times using UTC16 earthquakes in map area
3.2 1km NNE of Pawnee, Oklahoma 2015-10-14 23:56:26 UTC 1.4 km
2.6 1km NE of San Ramon, California 2015-10-14 22:44:54 UTC 8.8 km
3.3 14km N of Crescent, Oklahoma 2015-10-14 22:27:20 UTC 4.6 km
2.6 37km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico 2015-10-14 18:19:47 UTC 30.0 km
2.7 85km ENE of Cantwell, Alaska 2015-10-14 16:24:27 UTC 0.2 km
3.0 1km ENE of San Ramon, California 2015-10-14 15:14:04 UTC 8.5 km
2.9 22km W of Perry, Oklahoma 2015-10-14 14:01:35 UTC 8.0 km
3.5 5km S of Big Bear Lake, California 2015-10-14 13:55:29 UTC 10.1 km
4.5 83km SE of Makry Gialos, Greece 2015-10-14 13:17:10 UTC 39.7 km
4.3 27km ESE of Calama, Chile 2015-10-14 12:56:08 UTC 109.9 km
2.9 1km NE of San Ramon, California 2015-10-14 10:58:41 UTC 8.6 km
2.6 1km ENE of San Ramon, California 2015-10-14 10:22:42 UTC 8.3 km
4.5 44km NNW of Lipari, Italy 2015-10-14 10:20:53 UTC 286.9 km
4.9 93km S of Nsanje, Malawi 2015-10-14 09:10:41 UTC 10.0 km
5.4 9km SSE of San Alberto, Colombia 2015-10-14 07:47:19 UTC 124.1 km
4.9 139km WSW of Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia 2015-10-14 07:14:54 UTC 28.4 km
4.7 153km SSW of Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia 2015-10-14 06:36:27 UTC 38.9 km
3.4 10km NNE of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic 2015-10-14 06:08:37 UTC 155.0 km
5.0 201km S of Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia 2015-10-14 05:49:43 UTC 10.0 km
5.9 203km S of Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia 2015-10-14 05:43:07 UTC 6.0 km
2.5 7km SE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico 2015-10-14 04:34:39 UTC 10.0 km
2.9 12km NE of Gold Bar, Washington 2015-10-14 03:07:05 UTC 2.2 km
5.0 36km ENE of Tobelo, Indonesia 2015-10-14 02:47:08 UTC 90.9 km
2.7 95km WNW of Cantwell, Alaska 2015-10-14 02:38:21 UTC 7.1 km
3.1 2km NNW of Cushing, Oklahoma 2015-10-14 02:18:37 UTC 2.1 km
4.1 38km SE of Jarm, Afghanistan 2015-10-14 01:14:28 UTC 221.2 km
4.3 85km W of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea 2015-10-14 00:53:15 UTC 10.0 km
4.4 92km W of Kuril'sk, Russia 2015-10-14 00:44:00 UTC 73.0 km
4.1 92km WSW of Ovalle, Chile 2015-10-13 23:25:59 UTC 13.1 km
4.2 4km N of Simav, Turkey 2015-10-13 23:18:11 UTC 7.5 km
2.5 31km S of Plummer, Idaho 2015-10-13 21:52:56 UTC 3.4 km
3.7 167km SSE of Atka, Alaska 2015-10-13 20:16:44 UTC 41.5 km
2.5 61km WSW of Talkeetna, Alaska 2015-10-13 20:06:36 UTC 70.9 km
3.2 19km W of Perry, Oklahoma 2015-10-13 18:51:06 UTC 4.0 km
4.4 83km W of Illapel, Chile 2015-10-13 17:47:00 UTC 19.9 km
3.3 53km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 2015-10-13 17:43:23 UTC 114.0 km
3.0 88km WNW of Talkeetna, Alaska 2015-10-13 16:34:10 UTC 10.0 km
3.5 151km E of McGrath, Alaska 2015-10-13 16:34:10 UTC 100.0 km
2.8 30km SSW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 2015-10-13 15:44:46 UTC 13.0 km
4.7 48km SSW of Jarm, Afghanistan 2015-10-13 15:40:08 UTC 202.9 km
4.2 171km NW of Tanahmerah, Indonesia 2015-10-13 15:34:20 UTC 39.6 km
3.1 49km E of Kodiak, Alaska 2015-10-13 15:28:18 UTC 90.2 km
3.0 56km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico 2015-10-13 15:14:36 UTC 63.0 km
2.9 140km NE of Chignik Lake, Alaska 2015-10-13 15:04:34 UTC 12.4 km
2.7 43km SE of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2015-10-13 14:44:50 UTC 89.3 km
2.9 77km S of King Salmon, Alaska 2015-10-13 14:30:26 UTC 0.1 km
OTHER STORMS-QUAKES NEWS
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/10/south-carolina-starting-to-recover-from.html
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS ETC) 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.
Landslide hits makeshift homes in Pakistan, killing 13-Associated Press-OCT 13,15-YAHOONEWS
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Police say a landslide has hit three makeshift homes in a slum in Pakistan's port city of Karachi, killing 13 people.Senior police officer Javed Jaskani says the incident took place early Tuesday when a mass of mud and rocks crashed down a hill into camps in Karachi, the capital of southern Sindh province. He says women and children were among the dead and injured.State-run television says Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has expressed grief over the incident and instructed authorities to aid the families of the victims.Karachi is Pakistan's largest city and many poor laborers working there live in slums and makeshift homes near hills.
Myanmar proposes delaying Nov. 8 general election due to landslides, flooding-The Canadian PressBy Aung Shine Oo, The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – OCT 13,15-YAHOONEWS
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar - Myanmar's election commission on Tuesday proposed delaying the Nov. 8 general election either nationwide or in some areas hit by landslides and flooding.Union Election Commission Chairman Tin Aye told reporters that the election to choose a new parliament "might be delayed."He made the comment after meeting with different political parties to propose the postponement. The opposition National League for Democracy party led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi said it is against a delay.Tin Aye said the commission would release a statement in about two days with a possible new election date.He didn't say whether the polls might be delayed nationwide or only in areas affected by landslides and flooding in western and northwestern Myanmar."Why don't you ... just wait until the statement is released, it could be nationwide too," Tin Aye said.The general election is supposed to be followed by a presidential election early next year when the army and the elected members of parliament nominate a total of three candidates, and then all lawmakers vote for the president.Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist nation, began moving from a half-century of military rule toward democracy in 2011 when a nominally civilian government, led by a pro-military party, took office. Though there are many concerns — including the exclusion of ethnic Rohingya Muslims from the process and irregularities in voting lists — most observers believe the upcoming elections are the country's best chance in decades for relatively free and credible polls.If the elections are credible, most observers believe Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy will win the most seats in parliament, and could even control a majority by forming a coalition with smaller parties.
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.
The Latest on Kansas City fire: Chief: Firefighters had evacuated building when killed-The Canadian PressBy The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – OCT 13,15-YAHOONEWS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The latest on the collapse of a burning apartment building in Kansas City that killed two firefighters (all times local):7:55 a.m.-The Kansas City fire chief says two firefighters were killed when a section of a burning building collapsed, blowing a wall outward about 30 feet and trapping them.Chief Paul Berardi choked back tears as he spoke of Larry J. Leggio and John V. Mesh who were killed when the wall collapsed onto them Monday night. Two others were injured fighting the fire at the building that had businesses on the ground level and apartments above.He says the collapse happened after the building had been evacuated and that it appears a second-story section collapsed, forcing a wall outward about 30 feet. The firefighters killed and two others who were injured were outside the building working to protect a grocery store separated from the burning structure by an alley.
7:35 a.m.-Kansas City authorities have identified two firefighters who were killed when a wall collapsed on them in a burning building.The firefighters died Monday night as a massive fire engulfed the building on the city's northeast side.During an emotional news conference early Tuesday, Fire Chief Paul Berardi identified the firefighters as 17-year department veteran Larry J. Leggio and 13-year veteran John V. Mesh.He didn't provide their ages.Berardi says the two died after rescuing at least two residents from the apartment building blaze.Two other firefighters were injured. Berardi says one has been released from the hospital, and the other may be released Tuesday.Crews were still at the scene of the fire early Tuesday. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
6:45 a.m.-A Kansas City apartment building that collapsed, killing two firefighters, is still burning 12 hours after the blaze began.Fire Chief Paul Berardi says two other firefighters were injured Monday night as the massive fire engulfed the building on the city's northeast side.Berardi says the two who died saved two residents shortly before the building collapsed around them. He says they "did not die in vain."
Wildfires burn homes, prompt evacuations in Wyoming, Idaho-Reuters By Laura Zuckerman-OCT 13,15-YAHOONEWS
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Hundreds of Wyoming residents were forced to flee a wind-driven wildfire that destroyed at least 10 homes even as a separate blaze in neighboring Idaho burned several cabins to the ground and prompted dozens to evacuate, fire managers said on Monday.The fire that broke out on Saturday evening in a brush pile at a landfill north of Wyoming's second largest city of Casper has charred 10,000 acres (4,000 hectares) of grasslands and trees and led to the evacuation of more than 300 residents, said Bob Fawcett, fire marshal with the Natrona County Fire Protection District.At least 10 houses and an unknown number of outbuildings have been lost to a blaze fed by winds that gusted up to 60 miles an hour (95 kph) over the weekend amid bone-dry conditions, he said.That fire and a blaze in southwest Idaho that has destroyed three cabins and forced about 80 people from their homes since igniting Saturday near the small mountain town of Idaho City have come at a time the fire season in the Northern Rockies is usually drawing to a close, officials said."We're not used to seeing a threat this severe so late in the season," said Fawcett.Drought and unusually warm temperatures that have persisted in much of the region have been cited by U.S. fire managers as key factors in a 2015 fire season in the U.S. West that brought the most destructive blaze in California history and the largest on record in Washington state.Climate changes affecting Western states in recent years have caused the fire season to start earlier and last longer, fire managers have said. Wildfires have consumed more than 9.2 million acres (3.7 million hectares) across the United States so far this year, compared to the 10-year average of nearly 6.4 million acres (2.6 million hectares), according to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise.Wyoming fire officials estimated containment of the blaze outside Casper at 50 percent on Monday amid predictions of high winds.That fire and the one in Idaho, which has blackened an estimated 2,500 acres (1,000 hectares) in the southwest part of the state, are believed to have been caused by humans but investigations are ongoing, authorities said.(Editing by Sharon Bernstein and Sandra Maler)
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.
Experts urge Canadians to take part in earthquake drill Oct. 15-The Canadian PressBy Peter Rakobowchuk, The Canadian Press | The Canadian Press – oct 13,15-yahoonews
MONTREAL - Get ready for the Great Shakeout.On Thursday, drills in British Columbia and Quebec will provide people with the opportunity to learn how to be safer during earthquakes.B.C. organizers say 750,000 people have registered for that province's event, which will see participants drop to the ground at 10:15 a.m. local time, take cover by getting under a table or desk and hold on for about 60 to 90 seconds. The exercise, which happens yearly on the third Thursday in October, was first held in British Columbia in 2011.Alison Bird, a seismologist with Natural Resources Canada, is urging Canadians to take steps to prepare for an earthquake — not just in southwestern B.C. where there's a high risk — but across the country.Bird says some groups in Ontario will also be doing the drill, but it is not provincewide.She stresses the worst thing a person can do is to run through a building when a quake hits."When you're in a stressful situation your brain is not functioning properly so your body wants to do the instinctive thing, which is to run," she said, adding that the most dangerous place to be is just around the outside of a building.Bird says people need to be taught to drop, find cover and hold on if an earthquake hits."It's really important to create that muscle memory so that you do the right thing in an earthquake," she said.Over the centuries, earthquakes in Canada have claimed at least 30 lives, with most of them victims of a tsunami that hit Newfoundland in 1929.People living on Moresby Island, off the B.C. mainland, have been coping with their share of earthquakes over the years.Bill Beldessi, the director of Moresby Island regional district, remembers the 2012 quake in the Haida Gwaii region that measured 7.8 on the Richter scale."It was probably one of the worst one since I've lived here," he said in an interview from Sandspit, B.C."I was in bed and I noticed the light fixtures started making noises and a few things dropped off the wall and then a couple of aftershocks happened within five minutes."Beldessi, 66, says everyone headed for higher ground.That threat of massive tidal waves also prompted the community to pull together and set up an emergency centre."That's what we're doing right now,'' he said. ''We have a tsunami centre up in the hills and it's full stocked."As far as the big one, who knows when it's going to come — we don't lay awake worrying about it."We constantly have earth tremors here so it's not a big deal when we get something around three-and-a half or (magnitude) four. It's normal."Bird says people living in Victoria have a one-in-three chance of experiencing a damaging earthquake over the next 50 years.For Vancouver, there's a one-in-five chance.The danger is lower in the B.C. Interior, but Bird cautions ''there's nowhere that has zero hazard for earthquakes."The hazard decreases further inland and while provinces like Saskatchewan and Manitoba can experience quakes, the threat there is low.Bird says there are approximately 4,000 earthquakes a year in the West and about another 2,000 in the East."So it's a very active country for earthquakes. . . we really have to try to get people to recognize that that's the case."Her colleague, Maurice Lamontagne, who monitors Eastern Canada, says there are three active seismic zones in Quebec.He says 60 earthquakes are registered yearly in the west Quebec region, which includes the Laurentians, Montreal, Ottawa and eastern Ontario.Another seismic zone is the Charlevoix region northeast of Quebec City where two children died in an 1866 quake.The third seismic zone in Quebec is the Lower St-Lawrence region and Lamontagne says it's mainly under the river that the 60 yearly quakes are produced.The seismologist adds that neighbouring New Brunswick has had its share of quakes and continues to register small ones.Lamontagne warns there could be a repeat of the 7.2 earthquake off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland that was followed by a tsunami. It killed 28 people as waves carried away several villages in the Burin Peninsula."Absolutely!, there could be earthquakes that could cause tsunamis like that one," he said in an interview.
Cushing quake follows rules to curb seismic activity tied to wells-Reuters-October 11, 2015 11:02 AM-YAHOONEWS
HOUSTON (Reuters) - An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.5 that struck near the U.S. crude oil hub of Cushing, Oklahoma on Saturday occurred just days after regulators imposed new rules meant to prevent temblors in the area and said more changes were possible.The Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC), which regulates the state's oil and gas industry, ordered companies on Sept. 18 to shut or reduce usage of five saltwater disposal wells around the north-central Oklahoma city of Cushing.Saltwater, a normal byproduct of oil and gas work, is put into deep disposal wells that scientists say have contributed to a rash of small and medium-sized earthquakes in Oklahoma since 2009.At the time of its latest directive, the OCC said its "plan may be altered as more data is made available".On Sunday, some people on social media, fearing a quake could cause a fire or explosion in Cushing in the future, were already calling for tougher rules."This needs to stop," read a comment at NPR's StateImpact. "The injection wells & fracking are wrecking Cushing."Saltwater disposal needs have grown in tandem with the boom in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.Saturday's quake reported by the U.S. Geological Survey was shallow and centered 5 km (3 miles) from Cushing. [L1N12A0K6]-There were no reports of injuries or damages to the vast network of pipelines and tanks that make up the U.S. oil storage hub, which serves as the reference point for futures traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange.The Cushing quake was the second significant quake to hit the state in a day, the USGS said, after one with 4.4 magnitude struck near Medford, about 80 miles (130 km) northwest of Cushing, on Saturday morning.Noticeable quakes, above magnitude 3.0, now strike Oklahoma at a rate of two per day or more, compared with two or so per year before 2009.Despite resistance from oil producers, the OCC has previously required disposal well operators to show they are not injecting water below the state's deepest rock formation, a practice believed to contribute to seismic activity.The first set of rules the OCC issued on Aug. 4 told 12 operators of 23 wells that they had 60 days to reduce the amount of saltwater being injected into wells.The standards have affected only a fraction of the state's approximately 3,500 saltwater disposal wells.(Reporting By Terry Wade; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
Los Angeles approves sweeping earthquake building-safety rules-Reuters By Daina Beth Solomon-October 9, 2015 9:51 PM-YAHOONEWS
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles on Friday approved safety standards that will require earthquake retrofits at thousands of apartment buildings and establish the nation's toughest rules for structurally weak concrete buildings.The rules will apply to 13,500 wood-frame buildings with so-called soft first-stories, which often consist of thin pillars supporting upper floors in an area where tenants park, and 1,500 so-called brittle concrete buildings, which lack the ability to waver or bend in a temblor, the mayor's office said.Many soft first-story buildings are rent-stabilized, which prompted concerns that any damage to the residences would wipe out Los Angeles' already limited affordable-housing stock.San Francisco and a few other California cities have instituted rules for soft first-story buildings.But the Los Angeles ordinance, which passed the City Council by a unanimous vote on Friday and was quickly signed by Mayor Eric Garcetti, marks the first time a U.S. city has mandated retrofits of brittle concrete buildings, said U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Lucy Jones, who last year was hired by Los Angeles as an adviser on earthquake safety."I applaud the mayor and City Council for their commitment to a safer Los Angeles that will be here for future generations," Jones said.Owners of the brittle concrete properties, which also are called non-ductile concrete buildings, will have 25 years to complete strengthening upgrades while owners of soft first-story wood-frame properties will have seven years to finish the work, officials said.The vulnerability of soft first-story buildings, many of which were built in the 1960s as apartments with tuck-under parking, became clear in the 1994 Northridge earthquake when one collapsed in Los Angeles and killed 16 people.California cities are seen as facing a high risk of extensive damage from weak buildings in an earthquake, and officials have warned that based on historical patterns the state could be due for a major temblor."We’re leading the nation in requiring this level of building safety retrofit before, not after, the big quake we know is coming," Garcetti said in a statement.Los Angeles officials have not made any firm commitment to help fund the sweeping retrofits at commercial and apartment buildings, and plans to pay for the work are still being formulated.(Reporting by Daina Beth Solomon; Editing by Alex Dobuzinskis and Eric Beech)
UPDATE-OCTOBER 14, 2015-09:00PM
1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
34 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2015-10-15 00:51:11 UTCShowing event times using UTC16 earthquakes in map area
3.2 1km NNE of Pawnee, Oklahoma 2015-10-14 23:56:26 UTC 1.4 km
2.6 1km NE of San Ramon, California 2015-10-14 22:44:54 UTC 8.8 km
3.3 14km N of Crescent, Oklahoma 2015-10-14 22:27:20 UTC 4.6 km
2.6 37km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico 2015-10-14 18:19:47 UTC 30.0 km
2.7 85km ENE of Cantwell, Alaska 2015-10-14 16:24:27 UTC 0.2 km
3.0 1km ENE of San Ramon, California 2015-10-14 15:14:04 UTC 8.5 km
2.9 22km W of Perry, Oklahoma 2015-10-14 14:01:35 UTC 8.0 km
3.5 5km S of Big Bear Lake, California 2015-10-14 13:55:29 UTC 10.1 km
4.5 83km SE of Makry Gialos, Greece 2015-10-14 13:17:10 UTC 39.7 km
4.3 27km ESE of Calama, Chile 2015-10-14 12:56:08 UTC 109.9 km
2.9 1km NE of San Ramon, California 2015-10-14 10:58:41 UTC 8.6 km
2.6 1km ENE of San Ramon, California 2015-10-14 10:22:42 UTC 8.3 km
4.5 44km NNW of Lipari, Italy 2015-10-14 10:20:53 UTC 286.9 km
4.9 93km S of Nsanje, Malawi 2015-10-14 09:10:41 UTC 10.0 km
5.4 9km SSE of San Alberto, Colombia 2015-10-14 07:47:19 UTC 124.1 km
4.9 139km WSW of Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia 2015-10-14 07:14:54 UTC 28.4 km
4.7 153km SSW of Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia 2015-10-14 06:36:27 UTC 38.9 km
3.4 10km NNE of Otra Banda, Dominican Republic 2015-10-14 06:08:37 UTC 155.0 km
5.0 201km S of Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia 2015-10-14 05:49:43 UTC 10.0 km
5.9 203km S of Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia 2015-10-14 05:43:07 UTC 6.0 km
2.5 7km SE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico 2015-10-14 04:34:39 UTC 10.0 km
2.9 12km NE of Gold Bar, Washington 2015-10-14 03:07:05 UTC 2.2 km
5.0 36km ENE of Tobelo, Indonesia 2015-10-14 02:47:08 UTC 90.9 km
2.7 95km WNW of Cantwell, Alaska 2015-10-14 02:38:21 UTC 7.1 km
3.1 2km NNW of Cushing, Oklahoma 2015-10-14 02:18:37 UTC 2.1 km
4.1 38km SE of Jarm, Afghanistan 2015-10-14 01:14:28 UTC 221.2 km
4.3 85km W of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea 2015-10-14 00:53:15 UTC 10.0 km
4.4 92km W of Kuril'sk, Russia 2015-10-14 00:44:00 UTC 73.0 km
4.1 92km WSW of Ovalle, Chile 2015-10-13 23:25:59 UTC 13.1 km
4.2 4km N of Simav, Turkey 2015-10-13 23:18:11 UTC 7.5 km
2.5 31km S of Plummer, Idaho 2015-10-13 21:52:56 UTC 3.4 km
3.7 167km SSE of Atka, Alaska 2015-10-13 20:16:44 UTC 41.5 km
2.5 61km WSW of Talkeetna, Alaska 2015-10-13 20:06:36 UTC 70.9 km
3.2 19km W of Perry, Oklahoma 2015-10-13 18:51:06 UTC 4.0 km
4.4 83km W of Illapel, Chile 2015-10-13 17:47:00 UTC 19.9 km
3.3 53km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 2015-10-13 17:43:23 UTC 114.0 km
3.0 88km WNW of Talkeetna, Alaska 2015-10-13 16:34:10 UTC 10.0 km
3.5 151km E of McGrath, Alaska 2015-10-13 16:34:10 UTC 100.0 km
2.8 30km SSW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 2015-10-13 15:44:46 UTC 13.0 km
4.7 48km SSW of Jarm, Afghanistan 2015-10-13 15:40:08 UTC 202.9 km
4.2 171km NW of Tanahmerah, Indonesia 2015-10-13 15:34:20 UTC 39.6 km
3.1 49km E of Kodiak, Alaska 2015-10-13 15:28:18 UTC 90.2 km
3.0 56km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico 2015-10-13 15:14:36 UTC 63.0 km
2.9 140km NE of Chignik Lake, Alaska 2015-10-13 15:04:34 UTC 12.4 km
2.7 43km SE of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2015-10-13 14:44:50 UTC 89.3 km
2.9 77km S of King Salmon, Alaska 2015-10-13 14:30:26 UTC 0.1 km
