You're welcome.
I'm thinking the tectonic plate shift could have a layered effect across the peninsula maybe. Opening the subterranean vault so as to compound any outpouring of the volcano itself. Or, perhaps there are other volcanoes in the region that would be affected due to that tectonic plate shift. There are more than 40 active volcanoes in Alaska.
USGS
How many volcanoes are in Alaska?
The Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands have about 80 major volcanic centers that consist of one or more volcanoes. Our website has an
interactive map of Alaska's volcanoes.
I forgot to mention Yellowstone-- never been there, but would love to go, and also, I've never seen the Grand Canyon.
Could you explain more the "layered effect," and opening the subterranean vault, and what does "compound the outpouring of the volcano mean? And, yes, there are five volcano's across the Cook Inlet, Mt. Redoubt is to the north of Illiamna, and Augustine is to the south, and Mt. Spurr is north of Augustine. Can't remember which are active off hand--maybe all of them? I can't recall off-hand, but I think I read that Redoubt is the dangerous one as far as Tsunami's, but, when I lived in Kenai near the ocean, you could see Mt. Redoubt, right across the Bay, and it always made me think of doing the opposite-- don't RE-Doubt... Re-faith!! but, not in an eruption--
It's pretty scary here right now, in my opinion, with a quake due near Anchorage in a shallow fault, and the plate shifting here again, it's way over my head to understand plate tectonics. When it shifts, it puts pressure somewhere else, which seemed to happen with the 5.7 here. The next quake after that listed in the "significant earthquakes," or near 6.0 was east of New Zealand-- a 5.9, some 2,000 miles east, so it looked like when the plate shifted north, it also caused things at the southern edge, directly to the South. and the faults on the west edge with Australia, New Zealand and Japan and Indonesia are interactive? with the plate shifting west?
All we can do really, is to always be ready for any events, especially in winter here. So, I'm going to try and practice what I preach and stock up a bit on vital necessities.
I'm not sure either what's happening with all the increased activity in the Pacific Rim, and what happened with that? But, if the Pacific plate shifts to the North and West, wouldn't that increase the pressure on the eastern edge? And what does the moon-gravity connection do? or the tidal shifts? It's all very captivating, frightening and unusual with the slowing effect of the earth's rotation--
The math works, really for a major event of biblical epic proportions.
It's just good sense, if you live near the ocean to take basic safety precautions.
And as always, the Lord calls us to be ready spiritually.
Instead of living by fear, live by faith, which is getting easier day by day, in my own life, and to face realities like natural and spiritual upheavals, storms, and life's battles and wars.
Foxholes tend to wake you up pretty fast.
The inner battle is the important one to win first;
And rest in that victory that only a power greater than ourselves can win it, and help us to do the same.
Knowing which is the right battle is key to winning it.
As people, we are prone to stay on the gerbil wheel.
Those are designed for lemmings.
Not sons and daughters of the Lord--warriors of the spiritual realm!
I'm thinking of Psalm 119, as I fight my own issues--
"HELP ME, LORD!!"
And PETER ON THE WAVES!!
"LORD, SAVE ME!!"
Would we learn those lessons in some boring, lukewarm, stable world??
THANK GOD WE LIVE IN A WORLD LIKE THIS!!
Nothing could be more perfectly imperfect!
The weaker we may experience, the greater God's power!
The more unstable the world, the more we appreciate being rescued!!
JESUS SAID!! :
"MY STRENGTH/POWER IS PERFECTED IN HUMAN WEAKNESS."
HIS GRACE IS ENOUGH! if we are humble enough to receive it and believe it!
I may think I'm great until I realize the throne for man is in the locker room.
I may think I'm great and powerful shifting a car--
or shifting a keyboard.
THE LORD CAN SHIFT TECTONIC PLATES.
THE LORD CAN SHIFT THE HEAVENS.
AND,
"THE LORD IS COMING TO JUDGE THE EARTH!" (Psalm 96&98)
Does that matter to us!?
Do we matter to God? And what we do in this life!?
Ask the Lord Himself on the cross.
Ask those people in Heaven or Hell.
If we want to fly like an eagle;
We can't do that feeling sorry for ourselves in bed;
And trying to raise ourselves out of it on our own power.
That didn't work for me for over 50 years.
What did John the Baptist say, a true and worthy prophet?
He was not worthy to carry the LOrd's sandals as a slave.
What did Jesus say? and John the Baptist?
TURN FROM OURSELVES AND THE WORLD, AND TURN TO GOD;
FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS NEAR!
Jesus began His ministry with this same message of John the Baptist.
It is especially true today.
TODAY IS THE DAY OF SALVATION.
RIGHT NOW.
THIS HOUR.
THIS MINUTE.
THIS HEARTBEAT.
NOT TOMORROW.
OUR LIVES ARE A FRAGILE AS A CANDLE.
EVERYONE IS ALWAYS ONE HEARTBEAT AWAY FROM ETERNITY, EVEN THOUGH WE NEVER THINK ABOUT IT.
