Earthquake statistics?

by ringo5 11 Replies latest jw friends

  • Frog
    Frog
    With greater population densities, better media coverage, and better equipment for detecting and recording earthquakes, it seems likely that yes, we will hear of more earthquakes in these 'last days'. More reports of earthquakes doesn't necessarily mean more earthquakes.

    Jeffro, you got in before me and made my point (although I'd likely have said in 4 lines what you've said in 2;).

    Prior to urbanisation we were all living in relatively spatial agrarian societies, boundary less regions where the effects of intense earthquakes would have had less of an impact. And of course technological advances, which allow seismologists to report on even the slightest tremors, does give the appearance of more earthquakes. But the essence is that the scripture says there would be more 'reports' of wars, and earthquakes, doesn't suggest either would be more prolific (although clearly wars have become more intense and extensive). We live in an information age of transnational media corps who have the means to deliver instantaneous reporting. frog

  • Jeffro
    Jeffro
    But the essence is that the scripture says there would be more 'reports' of wars, and earthquakes

    Matthew 24:6 & Mark 13:7 refer to 'wars and reports of wars' (Luke 21:9 doesn't say 'reports' at all), verses 7, 8, and 10 of the respective chapters only refer to "earthquakes in one place after another", not reports thereof.

    Significantly, the gospel account of John has no parallel account. The earlier accounts of Matthew, Mark & Luke were in expectation of God's kingdom. After the destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD, there was much less focus on the kingdom, as evidenced by the fact that John's gospel mentions the kingdom of god only 7 times, limited to 2 conversations (with Nicodemus and with Pilate).

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