Refugees In Jesus

In the wee hours of this morning, Chile was hit with an 8.8 earthquake at a depth of about 22 miles, which triggered a tsunami warning in Hawaii and in Japan. The waves that hit Hawaii were not as bad as predicted as the people, who fled to high ground, observed.

Have not heard anything about the tsunami that was heading towards Japan.

Chile's housing minister said that 500,000 homes have been destroyed. So far, there have been 50 aftershocks in Chile. The news reported that the Pacific plate pushed under this region at a rate of 3 inches per year. This causes the area to be more prone to seismic activity. Chile has drills in earthquake recovery and building codes because of the numerous earthquakes that have hit this area. Reports state that this earthquake and the earthquake in Haiti on January 12, 2010 were both unexpected and happened suddenly

Nor nearly as large, Lincoln County, Oklahoma was hit with a 4.4 earthquake.

I went over to the actual URL for the Seismic Monitor. There have been 396 earthquakes with a 4.0 and greater on the Richter scale in the past 30 days.