Posted: March 5, 2021 By Peter Aitken | Fox News
New Zealand residents were given the all-clear to return to their homes after a series of earthquakes over several hours set off tsunami warnings, according to reports. Three earthquakes struck the Pacific region over a period of 6 hours on Friday, with the last quake registering as 8.1 magnitude — one of the most powerful earthquakes in the region in modern history. Officials issued advisories for coastal areas after the first quake — registering as 7.3 magnitude — originated around 100 miles from the islands.”We expect New Zealand coastal areas to experience strong and unusual currents and unpredictable surges at the shore,” New Zealand’s National Emergency Management Agency tweeted.
The quakes created waves ranging from 3 to 10 feet in height and forcing officials to issue tsunami warnings in various countries around the Pacific. Despite the significant strength of the earthquakes, no widespread injuries or deaths have been reported. New Zealand residents only reported gridlock as people fled their homes for higher ground, as well as some structural damage. A smaller, 6.3 magnitude earthquake in 2011 killed 185 people on the southern -most island of Christchurch. The strongest quake originated about 620 miles northeast of New Zealand.
Even Hawaii observed a tsunami warning that lasted 2 and a half hours, Hawaii News Now reported. . Residents have been told they may return home, but have been warned to remain off beaches, although authorities said the largest waves have passed, the BBC reported.
Our Comment:
As we near the close of probation and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, we shall see an increase in natural disasters especially in earthquakes. Regions that were never prone to the earth’s shaking, will with violence be shook and increase in both frequency and magnitude. In addition to these natural calamities by land, sea and air, men will be scorched as the Sun’s rays intensify in earth’s closing hours. If there was ever a time to repent and give glory to God, now is the time. May we seek the Lord in every aspect of our lives and turn from the wickedness all around us.
Prophetically Speaking:
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Matthew 24:7 KJV
And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
Revelations 16:9
While appearing to the children of men as a great physician who can heal all their maladies, he will bring disease and disaster, until populous cities are reduced to ruin and desolation. Even now he is at work. In accidents and calamities by sea and by land, in great conflagrations, in fierce [590] tornadoes and terrific hailstorms, in tempests, floods, cyclones, tidal waves, and earthquakes, in every place and in a thousand forms, Satan is exercising his power. He sweeps away the ripening harvest, and famine and distress follow. He imparts to the air a deadly taint, and thousands perish by the pestilence. These visitations are to become more and more frequent and disastrous. Destruction will be upon both man and beast…..It will be declared that men are offending God by the violation of the Sunday sabbath; that this sin has brought calamities which will not cease until Sunday observance shall be strictly enforced;
Great Controversy 589-590
