Luke 21:11” There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
Important Takeaways:
- Experts Warn Quake-hit Azores Island Could See Volcanic Eruption Like Spain’s La Palma
- The lush mid-Atlantic island has been rattled by more than 20,000 small earthquakes, which reached a magnitude of up to 3.3, in the past 11 days.
- The tremors could herald a volcanic eruption for the first time since 1808, or a powerful earthquake
- At a school in Velas, classes were suspended and some of the school’s rooms will be turned into a health center.
- Workers with experience working in natural disasters have been deployed to the island.
- Involcan, which monitored the La Palma eruption, said on Tuesday about 20 million cubic meters of lava could be spewed out on Sao Jorge if an eruption takes place.
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Luke 21:11” There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
Important Takeaways:
- Earthquake activity causes displacement of 1,500 people on Sao Jorge Island
- 1,500 people left the municipality of Velas, on the Azorean island of São Jorge, due to the constant low-intensity seismic activity that has been registered for a week
- About a hundred people who were at the Velas health center and a nursing home have already been evacuated to Calheta, a municipality on the other side of the island
- The president of the Azores Volcanic Earthquake Information and Monitoring Centre (CIVISA), Rui Marques, alerted journalists in statements that the rain expected to take place these days, together with seismic activity, could cause collapses on the island
- It also advises the population “in a preventive way” to have emergency equipment prepared
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