A TIDE GAUGE off the shore of Coquimbo, a Chilean seaside city less than 100 miles from the epicenter of tonight’s 8.3 moment magnitude earthquake, has logged wave heights in excess of 14 feet. This comes about 90 minutes after the quake struck at 7:54pm local time.
NOAA’s Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has predicted wave heights exceeding 36 feet along the Chilean coast, and smaller events elsewhere in the Pacific. Outside of Chile, French Polynesia, a group of over 100 islands in the middle of the south Pacific, is in the most danger. There, NOAA warns of tsunami waves from three to nine feet.
Source: Wired – The Chile Earthquake’s First Tsunami Waves Strike
Amen, Shannon. Now we are seeing how the fields are made ripe for the picking! It isn’t about us, it’s about Him; Our God, our only Hope. Here, we have been so perfect in our Sunday-go-to-meeting finest; all perfectly groomed; all so righteously holy in ourselves… thinking at Harvest Time, the heathen were just going to show up at our doorstep because we were sitting on a pew….. But my God is Almighty, Powerful, His wrath is as great as the fear that is due Him! Now we will all fall on our knees in reverence to Him! Now with our own broken hearts, and contrite Spirits, we can comfort and help others turn their faces to Him, because we are weak and lowly and unable to fix this mess…. but He isn’t. And He is the only One who can!.
Pray for peace here. May God have glory in a terrible circumstance. May the children of God raise up to help those who are suffering and may that light shine what God’s heart truly is and those walking in darkness will desire His light.