108 Mile Deep 6.4-M Earthquake Strikes Vanuatu

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The United States Geological Survey (USGS) recorded a 6.4-magnitude earthquake in Vanuatu that was 71 km (44 mi) east of Lakatoro, just off Ambrym Island.

They report the quake struck at a depth of approximately 108 miles. There have been no immediate reports of casualties or infrastructural damage and a tsunami warning was not issued.

But individuals in the affected areas were advised to monitor the situation and prepare for potential aftershocks.

And in the event of aftershocks, to protect themselves as much as possible from falling debris indoors and not attempt to leave a building unless there was an immediate danger. And if outdoors, move away from buildings, utility wires, and streetlights.

Vanuatu has a population of about 280,000 spread over 65 inhabited islands and is regarded as one of the world’s most disaster-likely countries.

It sits on the “Pacific Ring of Fire,” making it vulnerable to strong earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, while powerful cyclones also regularly lash the islands.

This earthquake was over a 100 miles deep.

Deep earthquakes were discovered in 1922 by H.H. Turner of Oxford, England. Previously, all earthquakes were considered to have shallow focal depths, where rock formations can store up elastic strain along a geologic fault, held in check by friction until the strain lets loose in a violent rupture.

And after about 50 kilometers down, on average rock formations were thought to be squeezed too much and too hot to be able to crack and grind the way they do at the surface. Thus deep quakes below 70 km have been more difficult to explain.

Although previously, deep earthquakes were thought to not suppose to happen, yet now they account for more than 20 percent of all earthquakes.

The deep earthquakes are thought to indicate quaking within the core of oceanic plates that descend into the Earth’s mantle from convergent plate boundaries. The deepest earthquake ever recorded was in Vanuatu at a depth of 735.8 km in 2004.

Bible prophecies foretell that there would be unusual groaning and straining (Romans 8) within planet earth in the Last Days.

And the Biblical Prophecies of Jesus (Matthew 24, Luke 21) foretell that earthquakes will be a sign of the Last Days indicating the nearing end of this age of grace.

These events and conditions happening now are warning signs pointing to the nearing fulfillment of the Last Days prophecies at the end of this age revealing it’s time to prepare now for the nearing appearance of Jesus Christ for His Church by being born again spiritually into the Kingdom of God as Jesus said we must (John 3) and His Apostles who were authorized (Matthew 16:19) described how (Acts 2).

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