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\nIndonesian Earthquake 9\/02\/09<\/p>\n
\nIndonesian Earthquake 9\/02\/09<\/p>\n
COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n The following disturbing news items were recently reported:<\/p>\n The powerful earthquake<\/a> and deadly tsunami<\/a> that struck the Samoan Islands on Tuesday occurred, once again, on a volatile \u201csubduction zone\u201d such as the one that caused the 2004 Indonesian earthquake and another that poses risks to the Pacific Northwest of the United States.<\/p>\n Researchers at Oregon State University who have studied and mapped in detail the subsea terrain near Samoa and Tonga in the South Pacific Ocean say this event \u2013 which appears to have killed 100 or more people in the resulting tsunami \u2013 happened deep beneath the sea in a complex geological site where two of the Earth\u2019s great plates collide.<\/p>\n \u201cTo my knowledge, there haven\u2019t been many destructive tsunamis in this region in recorded history, but it\u2019s not surprising that this happened,\u201d said Dawn Wright, a professor of geosciences at OSU who has done extensive bathymetric mapping of this part of the world. http:\/\/www.kval.com\/news\/local\/62983817.html<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n AKARTA, Oct 1 (Reuters) – The death toll in a quake that struck the Indonesia island of Sumatra could number in the “thousands”, a health ministry official said on Thursday.<\/p>\n Rustam Pakaya, the head of the health ministry’s disaster centre, made the forecast to Reuters at Jakarta’s Halim airport.<\/p>\n The quake toppled hundreds of buildings in the city of Padang on Sumatra on Thursday. Officials had earlier put the death toll at between 100 and 200 people, but warned that many others remained buried under rubble. (Reporting by Sunanda Creagh, Writing by Sara Webb and Ron Popeski; Editing by Bill Tarrant) http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/asiaCrisis\/idUSSP546897<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The situation in the Pacific has been unsettling the past week or so.<\/p>\n Indonesia has suffered from many earthquakes in the past several years and has lost thousands of people to them.<\/p>\n But more are coming (Matthew 24:7; Luke 21:11).<\/p>\n The Bible warns of a time when there will be such a massive earthquake, that the islands will be no more.<\/p>\n\n
Tsunami hit Indonesia, Samoa: Is Oregon next?<\/h2>\n
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Indonesia quake toll could hit “thousands”-official<\/h2>\n