Posted on 10/22/2013 12:24:46 PM PDT by Errant
A small earthquake shook the Sea of Galilee area on Tuesday morning, the fifth such tremor in less than a week.
The quake, measuring 3.3 on the Richter scale, caused no reported damage or injuries.
On Sunday, two minor earthquakes, both measuring 3.6 in intensity, were reported in the north, which followed similar quakes on Saturday and Thursday. No injuries have been reported, although some buildings in Tiberias were lightly damaged by the tremors.
Last Sunday, a 6.4-magnitude quake, centered in the Mediterranean Sea near Crete, was felt in Athens, Egypt and Israel.
And in September, an early-morning 3.5-magnitude quake was felt in the northern Dead Sea area, including in Jerusalem.
In response to the string of temblors, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened a special cabinet meeting Monday to discuss the state’s earthquake preparedness, and, on Sunday, the Home Front Command and emergency services representatives held a meeting to discuss emergency procedures in the case of a more major earthquake.
However, seismologist Dov Lakovsky of the Geophysical Institute of Israel told The Times of Israel Sunday that there was no cause for alarm and that the quakes were just “a bit stronger than usual.” Such tremors, he said, “happen all the time.”
According to the GII’s statistics, seven earthquakes strong enough to be felt have rattled Israel in 2013.
Israel is situated along the Syrian-African rift, a tear in the earth’s crust running the length of the border separating Israel and Jordan, and is part of the Great Rift Valley, which extends from northern Syria to Mozambique.
Israel’s last major earthquake rattled the region in 1927 — a 6.2-magnitude tremor that killed 500 and injured another 700.
An earthquake in 1837 left as many as 5,000 people dead. According to a 2010 Haaretz report, major earthquakes strike Israel once every 80 years or so.
The country is currently in the midst of a major program of upgrading buildings to withstand earthquakes.
WELL THAT DIDN’T WORK
There are now six mag 5+ quakes, all in different locations, along the western and northern edges of the pacific plate. That’s a little unusual...
Lol, yeah - it didn’t work for me either. :)
I have lost count of the Bohol quakes. There was a 4.9 during the night, but we were asleep. Tremors from the others are very minor, but I have started feeling like they are happening every ten min., or so. I have a hanging light switch by my computer desk. It will start to jiggle when there is the slightest movement.
Here is the earthquake chart. Tagbilaran, Bohol is just over the water from us. Sometimes I can see the glow of lights from that city at night.
In my five years here, the only other quake that I have experienced, maybe in 2010, was a small quake from Negros, the island to our west. It was quite minor here, and just an interesting curiosity.
Isaiah 17:1 A prophecy against Damascus: “See, Damascus will no longer be a city but will become a heap of ruins.
Sounds like (it could be) an earthquake to me...
India is another area seeing an increase in activity:
Indian plate has become seismically active
Just today:
'Volcano-like eruption' on Manipur hill, locals flee to safety
That’s certainly a possibility, while everyone is else is thinking an attack on the city, you may be right. Good thinking!
“If I were you, I’d have a few weeks to months of supplies on hand.”
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Where I live, on a beach, there is no need to stock up on supplies. The town market area is a five min. bicycle ride up the road. Unlike markets in the US, our market is made up of 50, or so, vendors selling everything from fresh meats, fruits, and vegies to computer parts. Living in the vegetable capital of Cebu, we have all the fresh veggies and fruit that one could want. There is a fresh bunch of bananas hanging from the tree, just outside my front door. Most of my neighbors are fishermen who bring in the fish every day.
Even with the municipal water system down, we have a deep well available.
The only inconvenience is when the electricity fails.
It was out for four hours after the quake.
Many of the market vendors were closed most of the day, as they were picking up their goods from the floor.
Etymology:
The modern name, Kinneret, comes from the Old Testament or Hebrew Tanakh "sea of Kinneret" in Numbers 34:11 and Joshua 13:27, and spelled (Hebrew) כנרות ("Kinnerot") in Joshua 11:2. This name was also found in the scripts of Ugarit, in the Aqhat Epic. Kinneret was listed among the "fenced cities" in Joshua 19:35. The name Kinneret may originate from the Hebrew word kinnor ("harp" or "lyre"), in view of the shape of the lake.
In the New Testament the term "sea of Galilee" (Greek: Θαλασσαν της Γαλιλαιας, Thalassan tēs Galilaias) is used in the gospel of Matthew 4:18; 15:29, the gospel of Mark 1:16; 7:31, and in the gospel of John 6:1 as "the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias" (θαλασσης της Γαλιλαιας της Τιβεριαδος, Thalassēs tēs Galilaias tēs Tiberiados), the late 1st century CE name.[7] Sea of Tiberias is also the name mentioned in Roman texts and in the Jerusalem Talmud, and was adopted into Arabic as About this sound Buhairet Tabariyya (help·info) (بحيرة طبريا).
All Bible writers use the term "sea" (Hebrew יָם yam, Greek Θαλασσα) except the gospel of Luke, written to Theophilus of Macedonia, where it is called "the lake of Genneseret" in Luke 5:1, from the Greek λίμνη Γεννησαρέτ, (limnē Gennēsaret), the "Grecized form of Chinnereth" according to Easton, who says Genneseret means "a garden of riches".[8] The Babylonian Talmud, as well as Flavius Josephus mention the sea by the name "Sea of Ginosar" after the small fertile plain of Ginosar that lies on its western side.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Galilee
Both Neal and "Buz" walked on the "Sea of Tranquility"; only one has ever walked on the Sea of Galilee. ;)
Sounds like paradise! How high are you above sea level?
I was thinking attack also, I got the idea from this blog, aptly named End of Days...
http://yearsofawe.blogspot.com/2013/10/sneak-preview-we-are-all-tzoar-52nd.html
“How high are you above sea level?”
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Sorry for the slow reply. I was asleep when you asked me.
I am about 10 feet above the sea, and a little over 100 ft
back from it.
I do not worry much about tsunamis, as we are not exposed
to the open Pacific. There are numerous other islands between me and the open ocean.
Thank you very much for sharing and for taking the time to post the link. I will keep that possibility in mind during the coming days.
Stay safe as these are a little unusual; time will tell if we continue to see an increase. Hopefully the frequency of occurrence begins to subside soon.
“Hopefully the frequency of occurrence begins to subside soon. “
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Yes, it is strange to have so many. There have been 4 in the last 5 hours, but we were asleep.
http://www.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/html/update_SOEPD/EQLatest.html
Wow, you're sitting atop some very unusual geology! There are sebduction zones both to the west and east, and both subducting toward each other underneath your island!
Gipper, am I reading the image wrong? Could this be the reason a stronger return on the seismic recorders wasn't received, as both waves would have had to traverse both fault lines. The Island wedge could be semi-isolated?
“Wow, you’re sitting atop some very unusual geology!”
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Yes, but the idea of earthquakes never entered my mind.
In my five years here, I experienced only one small tremor
from a quake over on Negros, a few years ago.
The huge number of quakes over the past week from the same location has taken everyone by surprise, not to mention, putting everyone on pins and needles.
My neighbor, from Cape Cod, and I are now feeling imaginary tremors throughout the past few days....maybe not imaginary, haha.
Yep yep yep...exactly.
Interesting indeed that’s a fracture zone if I ever did see one....lol
Thank you!
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