Beginning March 14, 2016, a number of small magnitude earthquakes have occurred beneath Mount St. Helens, at a depth between 2 and 7 km (1.2 to 4 miles). Over the last 8 weeks, there have been over 130 earthquakes formally located by the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network and many more earthquakes too small to be located. The earthquakes have low magnitudes of 0.5 or less; the largest a magnitude 1.3. Earthquake rates have been steadily increasing since March, reaching nearly 40 located earthquakes per week.
These earthquakes are too small to be felt at the surface. The earthquakes are volcano-tectonic in nature, indicative of a slip on a small fault. Such events are commonly seen in active hydrothermal and magmatic systems. The magma chamber is likely imparting its own stresses on the crust around and above it, as the system slowly recharges. The stress drives fluids through cracks, producing the small quakes. The current pattern of seismicity is similar to swarms seen at Mount St. Helens in 2013 and 2014; recharge swarms in the 1990s had much higher earthquake rates and energy release. READ MORE
Does this publication actually exist? Give me a break. I saw your blatant misuse of information for your personal agenda while reading the articles that you copied and pasted. As a born again Christian my whole life, who grew up in a Christian family I am ashamed of such eschatological trash. As a person who also happens to hold an M.Div. from one of the US’ top seminaries and an M.P.H. in disaster management from one of the world’s top schools of public health and tropical medicine I know these events have been happening since creation without much increase in frequency, just like there have been deadly public health epidemics since OT times even at the scale as we have today. PLEASE stop giving Christianity a bad name and fear mongering amidst Christians for your personal missiological agenda. You give both faith and science a bad name…… Your theology is superficial and immature at best; wack at worst.
Randy, Your credentials are impressive, but they don’t make you any more an authority on prophecy than me, a man without titles, degrees and or a fondness for Hall Lindsey or Tim Lahaey. I take the Word of God as literal and the word of highly educated and titled people as not accurate. When the afore mentionedpopular writers have only focused on Europe and Rome being the end time power and IGNORED the resemblance that America has with the Daughter of Babylon simply because the ancients wouldn’t have recognized the word America, so to them it is obvious that America CANNOT be that last great power. So To me, and others like me, your argument won’t float.