re: dlux, not a valid answer- ok try this!!
the original post from kscbbb (reads like a red neck USA radio station call sign, but I jest occasionally)
"I think you will find this the first of the great earthquakes to hit the planet before armageddon,Its a warning for the whole world. Unfortunately we will probably find there are more 9 plus richter scale quakes coming. Laugh all you will,the planet will end,salvation is available to whoever is wise. regards
p.s I can only handle up to a 100 critics so be gentle."
As my previous post was 'invalidated' I will post a list of previous so called catastropic happenings on planet Earth & I am sure if it survived those events then this latest effort is like water off a ducks back. However you are correct that one day planet Earth will be non existent. For Salvation you may have to join the Army.
A brief moment in history follows -enjoy!!
CATASTROPHISM IN EARLIER ERAS
Cuvier as a Zoologist and Chancellor of the University of Paris developed from his observations of fossils found in old geological strata the concept of "Catastrophism." Great global cataclysms were seen to substantially alter the progress of evolution from time to time. A perspective is needed to view these.
Geologists have revealed many great catastrophic changes that have left their mark on global geology. For example: (These catastrophic time-frame estimates are made by modern Geology.)
Early CAMBRIAN Age (estimated at 570 million years ago). Unicellular forms seem suddenly to give way to multicellular ones showing mineralized skeletons -- trilobites, etc... The cause for this change is not known.
End of the ORDOVICIAN Period (estimated at 425 million years ago). The cause of a vast mass extinction that occurred then is yet to be determined. This was apparently accompanied by a long ice age.
Close of the DEVONIAN Age (estimated at 365 million years ago). Another mass extinction of species occurred -- cause yet to be determined.
The PALEOZOIC Era closed (estimated at 225 million years ago). A most violent mass extinction (including the ancient trilobites) occurred leaving only about 5% of all species alive. It is theorized that the supercontinent "Pangea" -- "mother" of the present continents was then in place. Water levels diminished, and sea levels lowered dramatically Massive volcanic action seems to have taken place following that.
TRIASSIC Period ended (estimated at 190 million years ago). Another mass extinction of living species was observed. This may have been triggered it has been theorized, by the impact of large meteorite or a small comet in the area of Quebec's Lake Manicougan (60 mile wide crater). The subsequent ice age caused a massive die-off of living forms. It is theorized that the hypothetical link (Cotylosaurus) between the dinosaurs and the mammals and reptiles was destroyed at that time.
65 million years ago another comet/meteorite was also estimated to have collided with the Earth and the resulting devastation caused the death of most of the Earth's species. This included the remaining dinosaurs and reptiles. A world wide layer of Iridium between 2 layers of limestone may have been deposited, as Iridium, rare on Earth, is largely present in meteorites [1980, Alvarez]. Mammals survived and a new distribution of fauna bloomed after this.
35 million years ago saw possibly two impacts (one under the Chesapeake Bay, and another in Siberia) -- that triggered the death of most of the animal species of the Earth, as a great ice age ensued. .
This catalog causes one to observe that long periods of relative stability can be traced by geologists to be interrupted by violent events: floods or volcanism. These upheavals alter the course of Life as a whole.
Archaeologists and Geologists wonder if a new era and change in quality of life is marked by the rapid development of new species. For example it is noticed that fossils indicate a rapid rise in the mammalian population of the Earth following the general demise of the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago. Later still, human fossils begin to be found in strata that seems to be around 4 million years old.
