Earthquakes; End Times? Part 2

 

 

For a number of great earthquakes from the 18th century onward, no death figures are known, the contemporary records simply giving the information that "many" were killed in them. Even if death figures were to be added to all three tables by including more earthquakes from the three periods involved, the comparison still would only demonstrate that the generation of 1914 is in no way unique as far as earthquakes are concemed.

The following table is one that show that over 2 different periods of 78 years, one of the 18th century, and the other of the 20th century, there were more people killed in the 18th century, which may be surprising to many who thinks that their are more earthquakes, nowadays, and thereby, more people killed in them:

  A COMPARISON OF EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS

 
1715-1783
 
 
 
1915-1983:
 

 
 
 
 
 
(See Awake! February 22, 1977)
 

Year
Location
Deaths
 
Year
Location
Deaths

1715
Algeria
20,000
 
1915
Italy
29,970

1717
Algeria
20,000
 
1920
China
180,000

1718
China
43,000
 
1923
Japan
143,000

1719
Asia Minor
1,000
 
1927
China
200,000

1721
Iran
100,000
 
1932
China
70,000

1724
Peru (tsunami)
18,000
 
1933
U.S.A.
115

1725
Peru
1,500
 
1935
India (Pakistan)
60,000

1725
China
556
 
1939
Chile
30,000

1726
Italy
6,000
 
1939
Turkey
23,000

1727
Iran
77,000
 
1946
Turkey
1,300

1730
Italy
200
 
1946
Japan
2,000

1730
China
100,000
 
1948
Japan
5,131

1730
Japan
137,000
 
1949
Ecuador
6,000

1731
China
100,000
 
1950
India
1,500

1732
Italy
1,940
 
1953
Turkey
1,200

1736
China
260
 
1953
Greece
424

1737
India
300,000
 
1954
Algeria
1,657

1739
China
50,000
 
1956
Afghanistan
2,000

1746
Peru
4,800
 
1957
Iran (Northern)
2,500

1749
Spain
5,000
 
1957
Iran (Western)
2,000

1750
Greece
2,000
 
1960
Chile
5,700

1751
Japan
2,000
 
1960
Morocco
12,000

1751
China
900
 
1962
Iran
10,000

1752
Syria
20,000
 
1963
Yugoslavia
1,100

1754
Egypt
40,000
 
1964
Alaska
131

1755
China
270
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1966
Turkey
2,529

1755
Iran
1,200
 
1969
Iran
11,588

1755
Portugal
60,000
 
1970
Turkey
1,086

1755
Morocco
12,000
 
1970
Peru
66,794

1757
Italy
10,000
 
1971
U.S.A.
65

1759
Syria
30,000
 
1972
Iran
5,057

1763
China
1,000
 
1972
Nicaragua
6,000

1765
China
1,189
 
1973
Mexico (Western)
52

1766
Japan
1,335
 
1973
Mexico (Central)
700

1771
Japan (tsunami)
11,700
 
1974
Pakistan
5,200

1773
Guatemala
20,000
 
1975
China
200

1774
Newfoundland
300
 
1975
Turkey
2,312

1778
Iran (Kashan)
8,000
 
1976
Guatemala
23,000

1780
Iran (Tabriz)
100,000
 
1976
Italy
900

1780
Iran (Khurasan)
3,000
 
1976
Bali
600

1783
Italy (Calabria)
60,000
 
1976
China *
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1783
Italy (Palmi)
1,504
 
1976
Philippines
3,373

1783
Italy (Monteleone)
1,191
 
1976
Turkey
3,790

 
 
 
 
1977-1983 addition +
44,623

Total 1715-1783:
1,373,845
 
Total 1915-1983:
1,210,597

Annual average:
19,911
 
Annual average:
17,545

 

WHAT LEADING SEISMOLOGISTS SAY ABOUT EARTHQUAKES TODAY AND IN THE PAST

"There is no indication that seismic activity has increased or diminished appreciably throughout historic time." – Seismologists J. Milne and A. W Lee, Earthquakes and Other Earth Movements, seventh edition (London, 1939), p. 155.

"Certain religious groups have picked this rather unfortunate time to insist that the number of earthquakes is increasing. In part they are misled by the increasing number of small earthquakes that are being catalogued and listed by newer, more sensitive stations throughout the world. It is worth remarking that the number of great earthquakes from 1896 to 1906 was greater than in any ten-year interval since." – Professor Charles Richter in National History, December 1969, p. 44.

"For earlier centuries we do not have the same reliable statistics, but there are no indications at all of any increase in the activity in the course of time." – Professor Markus Båth, private letter dated June 17, 1983.

"I certainly would agree with both Professors Båth and Richter in their assessment that there has been no significant increase in the number of earthquakes during this or any other century." – Wilbur A. Rinehart, seismologist at the World Data Center A, Boulder, Colorado. Private letter dated August 8, 1985. Page 1 and page 2.

An expert on the seismicity of the Mediterranean area, one of the earth’s major earthquake regions, says:

"Most certainly, there has been no increase in the seismic activity of the Mediterranean during this century. Quite the contrary, in the Eastern Mediterranean the activity of this century has been abnormally low when compared with that of the 10th-12th and 18th centuries." – Professor N. N. Ambraseys, private letter dated August 9, 1985.

"I feel strongly that the seismicity has been stationary for thousands of years. . . . Excellent geological evidence for the stationarity has been obtained by Prof. Kerry Sieh of Caltech, for the San Andreas fault." – Seismologist Keiiti Aki, professor at the Department of Geological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Private letter dated September 5, 1985.

"There are indications that worldwide seismic activity – if expressed in terms of earthquakes with magnitude 7 or over-has decreased steadily in the time from the beginning of the 20th century until now." – Seweryn J. Duda, Professor of Geophysics, University of Hamburg. Private letter dated July 7, 1986.

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