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    Powerful earthquake hits off northeastern Taiwan

    TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A powerful earthquake has struck off northeastern Taiwan, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.

    Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau says the quake registered magnitude 6.5, while the U.S. Geological Survey puts it at 5.5.

    The earthquake struck Sunday morning at sea, about 88 miles (141 kilometers) east of the Taiwanese county of Keelung. Keelung is about 17 miles (28 kilometers) east of the capital, Taipei.

    Earthquakes frequently rattle Taiwan, but most are minor and cause little or no damage.

    However, a magnitude-7.6 earthquake in central Taiwan in 1999 killed more than 2,300 people.

     

    27 comments

    • Tina  •  6 mths ago
      "I second that!" With regards to the frequency in earthquakes! I'm 42 and can't remember this many being reported on in a given 7 day period. Yikes! that's quite a few for such a short period of time. Is anyone else finding this as obvious?
    • Esteban  •  6 mths ago
      Big one is coming to California....sooner than later.......
      • Rodrigo 6 mths ago
        The big one is in 30 years 25 more years left
      • anthony 6 mths ago
        Why will the BIG ONE only be in California?
      • Darkpopoy256 6 mths ago
        THERE WILL BE A BIG ONE INDEED, Not sure when.
    • paydog23  •  6 mths ago
      Okay no one can tell me that this amount of geological activity is normal; this is the 3rd time in 3 days that I've read about an earthquake story, and probably at least the 20th time this year. In no other year can I recall this many earthquakes being reported, and I doubt that reporting accuracy has significantly increased from last year or the year before.
    • Darkpopoy256  •  6 mths ago
      Relax People, its normal.
    • Darkpopoy256  •  6 mths ago
      Mother Nature is shakin her @$$!!
    • Apoyngbulkan  •  6 mths ago
      More..October seemed to be a very shaky month!
    • Rick  •  Aurora, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and famines. These are the beginning of birth pains. - Son of God
    • WYZ1  •  Austin, United States  •  6 mths ago
      God will eventually get the attention of unbelievers...meanwhile the rest of us are getting a refresher course. Use your common sense or loose your life. We were warned.
    • greenpace  •  Fort Worth, United States  •  6 mths ago
      New Earthquakes and floods almost daily, hard to keep track of it, very soon will be deceases, droughts, famine etc is not doom saying is just simple facts, the question now is What is happening??? I believe most of us know the answer but we do not want to face it.
    • danman  •  Stockton, United States  •  6 mths ago
      It has been prophesied that downtown Los Angeles will soon be leveled by a massive, "blind-thrust" fault with up-and-down movement. Every skyscraper will fall. The 2011 Japanese earthquake (and tsunami) had to happen first.
    • Don Stern  •  6 mths ago
      Jesus said there would be an increase in these things leading up to His return.

      "What good is it for a man to gain the whole world and yet forfeit his soul." - Jesus Christ.

      "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." - Again, Jesus' words. John 14:6.

      "There is no other name under heaven given unto men by which they must be saved." - Acts 4:12.

      The only thing that matters is whether or not we have Christ as our personal Lord and Savior when we leave this earth. Christ's words are so telling they're worth repeating, in all truth...."What good is it for a man to gain the whole world and yet forfeit his soul."

      “Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.” - Rev 22:14-15.

      "Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist--he denies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also." 1John 2:22-23.

      So anyone who denies the Son, denies the Father also.

      “That if you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord’, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.” Rom 10:9-10.

      God loved us so much that He sent His only Son Jesus Christ to die for us. This is a free gift that is offered by grace through faith in Jesus the Son of God.

      It is only through Jesus that anyone can be saved – John 14:6, Acts 4:12.

      Ask Him to come into your life as Lord and Savior and you will be saved. He is the lamb of God. We're saved by what He did by dying on the cross for our sins, not by what we do.

      “And if by grace, then it is no longer by works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace.” Rom. 11:3

      You "wash your robe" so to speak, by receiving the free gift of pardon that Jesus offers through His shed blood on the cross.

      Christ not only died in our place, but He also led the perfect sinless life. He never sinned at any time during His walk on earth. He was completely blameless. This is why He is called the "Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world" in the Bible. He didn't deserve to die, but yet He choose to die in our place for all the sins we've ever committed if we receive Him by faith as Lord and Savior.

      This is why having our sins forgiven through Christ's shed blood on the cross is the only way we can stand righteous before God, according to the Bible. It is because a just God cannot allow sin to go unpunished or He simply wouldn't be a just God. God cannot allow sin to go unpunished and this is why He gave His only Son to die in our place. But if you reject His Son, then there no longer remains any substitute for your sin and the penalty is eternal separation from God in a place the Bible calls hell. Even though many people don't believe this it is nonetheless the reality. Some may not believe in gravity but if they walk off a building they will reap the consequences of gravity regardless of whether or not they believed it.
      • tran 6 mths ago
        What is wrong your brain?
      • Glen Fiddich 6 mths ago
        dont fret Tran, for you were not chosen to see and hear the truth. you are blind and deaf spiritually. u are among the weeds that will be gathered up in bundles to be burned when the harvest comes.
    • Kenny  •  6 mths ago
      The whole world is shaken! If you go to USGS website (earthquake.usgs.gov) there you can monitor worldwide earthquakes.
    • jerri  •  Warren, United States  •  6 mths ago
      I was told of these predictions all thru out my 40 years of life and told of things happening these days as a child and read the predictions from the bible, back then i only thought it was fairy tales my folks feeding me, THANK GOD I gave mmy life to the Lord when I did! Jesus gives us signs to watch for (not dates as false prophets say) but SIGNS, we've always had wars, earthquakes, tradgedies, natural disasters, BUT THE BIBLE SAYS when these things are happening all at once, FREQUENTLY, (MATTHEW 24:7 "For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places.) he says to watch and be ready and that these signs are the beginning of sorrows, ITS GOING TO GET SOO MUCH WORSE, GOD IS RIDDING EVIL and this world WHO ABANDONED HIM! HE LOVES US AND has waited 1000s years for MEN TO OBEY and LOVE HIM BACK! MOST of the HUMAN race has abandoned the LORD, they rather serve man made religions, AMERICA removed HIM from everything, the EVIL and wickedness of this world, NO ONE even acknowledges He even exists, homosexuality, lies, hate, selfishness, crime, sexual immorality, murders, evil and down right sinful music, sexual perversion,love of money, and entertainment, LUSTS, unholy, unbelieving in HIM, highmindedness, blasphemous, pornagraphy, rape, ETC this world runs rampant with nothing but pure filth and evil, and even people who think they are GOOD wont make it, ONLY WAY THRU IS belief, repentance and living for HIM! PEOPLE ABANDON HIM His anger and wrath is coming!! HIS MERCIES wont last to much longer! NOW THERE IS TIME, buttt YOU CANT GIVE him your life in vain or just for protection, UNLESS U TRULY want hm in your heart and life even if nothing more happens he will acknowledge that! GOD is not religion, churches, denominations, HES TELLING PEOPLE come OUT THAT stuff its not HIM, and give your life to HIM, break mans traditions, BOW YOUR HEAD and PRAY and repent and live HIS WAYS is all it takes! PLEASE PEOPLE HEED THE WARNINGS NOW, while there is time! GOD IS SERIOUS!! and JESUS will be coming thru those clouds with a VENGENCE!
    • DrPepper  •  Tokyo, Japan  •  6 mths ago
      Quake was not too powerful in relation to any populated area. Japanese also report it as a 5.6 (not 6.5) and they have sensor stations in Okinawa near by. http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/20111030122938491-301224.html
    • A Yahoo! User  •  Sacramento, United States  •  6 mths ago
      I hope something happens because our society sucks the high hard one.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  6 mths ago
      trillions of tons of crude drawn from inside the earth,and never gets refilled,not to mention the holes drilling from different parts of the world...also Man in its need for gold and other minerals leave holes in the earth and blast into quarries what was mountain side...gee you think the earth doesnt react or wait it does earthquake.what if they took parts of your body?
      • A Yahoo! User 6 mths ago
        Yeah what if oil provides lubrication in between the faults?
    • Painfulone  •  6 mths ago
      hmm... lots of earthquakes lately it would seem. Can't help but wonder; what if? lol....
      • anthony 6 mths ago
        What if what?......The End is coming....can not change that..but it will not end with a Earthquake or even a Nuclear War.....read your Bible or go to a church that can clearly and CORRECTLY share the words in this great book with you.....
    • mad  •  Irvine, United States  •  6 mths ago
      mother nature is saying 7 billion people get off my back. Get ready southern California
    • Kol Nidre  •  Pleasanton, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Whole lotta shakin' goin' on...
    • eric  •  Las Vegas, United States  •  6 mths ago
      guess its time to sleep in a liferaft on the roof
      • anthony 6 mths ago
        that did not work the first time...why assume it will work this time?....besides...the world is suppose to end by FIRE...so how is a liferaft on some roof gonna help you....hahaha
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