Impending Earthquakes

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 28, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 21.

Impending Earthquakes.

A bulletin from the University of California says that warnings of impending earthquakes may some day be given, just as the weather bureau warns of coming storms. It also says that "no part of the earth's surface is exempt from these tremors." They think that along what is called "faults," or fault lines, shafts and tunnels could be sunk, and microphones installed that would give warnings. In the first eleven months of the present instruments in use at the University of California, eighty-nine earthquakes were recorded. Many of these had come from immense distances, and had traveled half way around the world. It may be true that men may forewarn concerning some of these great convulsions of nature, but they can not stay them; and He whose Word is true tells us that sometime there will come the "great earthquake," in the which the cities of the nations shall fall, and earth's kingdom of sin shall come to an end.