The number-one question being asked of the USGS
Posted by Brad Macdonald at 8:17 pm on April 8, 2010
According to Heidi Koontz, the Public Affairs specialist at the United States Geological Service, the most popular question the American public is asking the usgs lately is: Is this the end of the world?
It seems four massive quakes in as many months in Haiti, Chile, Mexico and Indonesia has a growing number of American’s recalling passages in Matthew 24 and the book of Revelation and nervously wondering if the end of the world might indeed be at hand.
“I received a call from a psychiatrist who is getting an influx of patients who are really concerned about the end of days,” says Koontz, “and he wanted us to pinpoint science and provide him with links to science that would help allay the fears of some of his patients. He needed some hard facts and he said that that actually helped.”
Of course, usgs scientists—being scientists—downplay the notion that there is more to these rumblings than the natural clashing and creaking of tectonic plates. This is all pretty normal, seismologist Harley Benz told Fox News. “You can expect earthquakes in locations where we are known to have earthquakes,” he says. “In this case, in Sumatra, it’s one of the most seismically active areas in the world. Likewise Chile is one of the most seismically active areas in the world.”
Benz may be right. Perhaps geologically these earthquakes are not anomalous.
But is the death of nearly a quarter of a million people from earthquakes in the past four months alone normal?
http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?page=blog#7108
Posted by Brad Macdonald at 8:17 pm on April 8, 2010
According to Heidi Koontz, the Public Affairs specialist at the United States Geological Service, the most popular question the American public is asking the usgs lately is: Is this the end of the world?
It seems four massive quakes in as many months in Haiti, Chile, Mexico and Indonesia has a growing number of American’s recalling passages in Matthew 24 and the book of Revelation and nervously wondering if the end of the world might indeed be at hand.
“I received a call from a psychiatrist who is getting an influx of patients who are really concerned about the end of days,” says Koontz, “and he wanted us to pinpoint science and provide him with links to science that would help allay the fears of some of his patients. He needed some hard facts and he said that that actually helped.”
Of course, usgs scientists—being scientists—downplay the notion that there is more to these rumblings than the natural clashing and creaking of tectonic plates. This is all pretty normal, seismologist Harley Benz told Fox News. “You can expect earthquakes in locations where we are known to have earthquakes,” he says. “In this case, in Sumatra, it’s one of the most seismically active areas in the world. Likewise Chile is one of the most seismically active areas in the world.”
Benz may be right. Perhaps geologically these earthquakes are not anomalous.
But is the death of nearly a quarter of a million people from earthquakes in the past four months alone normal?
http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?page=blog#7108
