Rifts splitting of eastern section of Africa · March 01, 2011
“The fissures began appearing years ago. But in recent months, seismic activity has accelerated in northeastern Africa as the continent breaks apart in slow motion. Researchers say that lava in the region is consistent with magma normally seen on the sea floor — and that water will ultimately cover the desert.”
A volcano in the deserts of Ethiopia started erupting last November (2010) after being dormant for decades. Now it is bubbling over and the earth is moving in northeastern Africa, according to volcanologists. “The desert floor is quaking and splitting open, volcanoes are boiling over, and seawaters are encroaching upon the land. Africa, researchers are certain, is splitting apart at a rate rarely seen in geology.”
The Great Rift Valley, which runs from Syria all the way south to Mozambique, along with its several volcanoes, is splitting Africa apart. The Rift Valley is protected from the Red Sea in Ethiopia by 25 meter (82 foot) hills, the only barrier holding back the waters from flooding the whole valley.
“The hills could sink in a matter of days,” Tim Wright, a fellow at the University of Leeds’ School of Earth and Environment, said at a recent conference… In the last five years, the geologic transformation of northeastern Africa has ‘accelerated dramatically,’ says Wright.
Because of earth tremors, East Africa is “shattering like broken glass.” There have been a large number of seismic shocks in recent timers, according to researchers. The earth is opening up very quickly. What was once measured in just a few millimeters of movement each year is now measured in meters.
Some fault lines in Ethiopia are already splitting apart, which scientists think is transforming the landscape into something like a sea floor because of the recent acceleration of earthquake and volcanic activity. Some fissures are eight meters wide (26 feet).
The magma is mostly underground, but what has surfaced is like the magma from deep down in the seabed. “The entire region increasingly resembles an ocean floor — one without water.”
Volcanic activity in 2005 opened a huge 60-kilometer (35+ miles) fissure of 20 feet in just days in the Afar Depression. Then magma came up in the middle of the rift and began to “unzip” the rest as magma spewed up through the crevice. Since then enough magma has spewed out to cover the city of London about the average person’s height. But the magma is also traveling under the surface through the rock at up to 40 meters a minute.
Another 200-kilometer stretch is welling up with magma, while satellite data shows a large area scarred by fissures. And ground temperatures are far north as eastern Egypt have spiked, while a 17-kilometer fissure as far south as the desert of northern Malawi has also opened up.
In other words, East Africa is being split in two from Egypt down through Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi. This is a huge section of Africa, which is home to millions upon millions of people. A whole region is being ripped away from the continent by a long string of seismic and volcanic activity. The earth is being violently torn apart, and quickly.
Imagine if a huge part of eastern Africa is split off from the continent and some of it sinks into the sea. Huge cities would disappear.
But that’s not all. In 2009 a volcano erupted in Saudi Arabia, spewing magma in an area the size of Berlin and Hamburg, Germany combined. This surprising developing volcano caused a 5.7 magnitude earthquake and thousands of tremors are 200 kilometers from the fault line in North Africa.
“The world’s largest geological construction site continues to expand… More and more magna is pushing its way to the earth’s surface, adding that: ‘The magma chamber is reloading,’” says Lorraine Field, a geologic specialist.
“Oxford University’s David Ferguson predicts a considerable increase in volcanic eruptions and earthquakes in the region over the next decade. They will, he says, ‘become of increasingly large magnitude.’”
Jesus warned us that earthquakes will increase in the last days in “divers places.” Could it be that this would be on a scale not previously imagined by most people?
“O that God’s people had a sense of the impending destruction of thousands of cities, now almost given to idolatry!…” Maranatha, p. 25
“The day of the Lord is at hand, when the elements shall melt with fervent heat, and all the cities of the earth shall be destroyed.” Signs of the Times, February 10, 1888.
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