{"id":796,"date":"2008-12-16T17:00:14","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T01:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=796"},"modified":"2008-12-16T17:01:15","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T01:01:15","slug":"earthquakes-in-sweden-and-south-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/prophecy\/earthquakes-in-sweden-and-south-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquakes in Sweden and South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/300px-Kaiser_Permanente_Building_After_Northridge_Earthquake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>6.7 Earthquake in Northridge California Destroyed the Above Building of Kaiser Permanente As Well as Various Freeway Overpasses and other Buildings on January 17, 1994.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/cogwriter.htm\">COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were earthquakes in Sweden and South Caroline of note today:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Earthquake shakes southern Sweden<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span><strong>The Local, Sweden<\/strong> &#8211; Dec 16, 2008<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span>Southern Sweden was rocked by an earthquake early on Tuesday morning which  caused a flood of phone calls to emergency services operators from alarmed  residents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span>&#8220;The bed shook for about 20 seconds,&#8221; Helsingborg resident John O&#8217;Leary told  The Local.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">O&#8217;Leary said the quake woke him at about 6:20am and that the  shaking knocked over several items in his apartment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Uppsala University  seismologist Reynir B\u00f6dvarsson estimated the quake measured between 4.5 and 5.0  on the Richter scale.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cIt was likely felt in much of southern Sweden. For  Sweden, this is a very strong quake,\u201d B\u00f6dvarsson told the TT news agency&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span>Tuesday&#8217;s tremor was felt primarily by residents in Skane.\u00a0\u00a0People living in  Malm\u00f6 reported feeling strong tremors and buildings throughout the city  shook.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cIt\u2019s not dangerous for people, but there certainly may be some  cracking in the facades of buildings,&#8221; said B\u00f6dvarsson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve never been  so scared in my life,&#8221; said Tina Morris, who resides in Skurup, about 40  kilometres south east of Malm\u00f6.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cThe roar of the quake was horrible, but  it was the bed shaking that woke me up. I could hear the plates<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"><strong>Weak earthquake hits SC near  Charleston<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><strong>AP &#8211;<\/strong> Dec 16, 2008<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) \u2014 A weak earthquake shook parts  of the South Carolina coast, tipping over people&#8217;s Christmas trees, knocking  pictures off walls and causing minor injuries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">The Earthquake Hazards Program of the U.S. Geological  Survey says the temblor hit at 7:42 a.m. Tuesday northwest of Charleston. It had  a preliminary magnitude of 3.6. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><a title=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5gGL7HfGXfus_72M0ocXAk4c5CYTAD953U8LO1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5gGL7HfGXfus_72M0ocXAk4c5CYTAD953U8LO1\">http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5gGL7HfGXfus_72M0ocXAk4c5CYTAD953U8LO1<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Of course, earthquakes of these magnitudes, at most, are indication of the beginning of sorrows according to Jesus:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">7 And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows (Matthew 24:7-8).<\/p>\n<p>But the end (meaning the Great Tribulation) is not yet (cf. Matthew 24:21).<\/p>\n<p>We in the Living Church of God have tended to consider that the Swedes are mainly descended from the Israelite tribe of Naphtali (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/britishisrael.htm\">The  Lost Tribes of Israel<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><em>Several articles of possibly related interest may include:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/when-will-the-great-tribulation-begin.htm\">Can the Great Tribulation Begin in 2009, 2010, or 2011?<\/a> Can the Great Tribulation begin today? When is the earliest that the Great Tribulation can begin? What is the Day of the Lord?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/end-mayan-calendar-2012.htm\">End of Mayan Calendar 2012\u2013Might 2012 Mean Something?<\/a> There is a Mayan calendar prediction for change in 2012. 2012 changes were also centuries ago predicted by the Hopi Native Americans (the Hindus may have some predictions for the next decade as well). Do these Mayan\/Hindu\/Hopi prophecies have any value? Why might Satan have inspired this date? Does the Dresden codex show destruction of the earth by flood? Can the great tribulation start before 2012?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/six_thousand_year_plan_6000.htm\">Does God Have a 6,000 Year Plan? What Year Does the 6,000 Years End?<\/a> Was a 6000 year time allowed for humans to rule followed by a literal thousand year reign of Christ on Earth taught by the early Christians? When does the six thousand years of human rule end?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6.7 Earthquake in Northridge California Destroyed the Above Building of Kaiser Permanente As Well as Various Freeway Overpasses and other Buildings on January 17, 1994. 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