The Social Poets: Millennium Prophecy Coming to Pass? Hurricane Irene Floods, Devastates America

Image by Official U.S. Navy Imagery via FlickrFrom Denny:

The Social Poets: Millennium Prophecy Coming to Pass? Hurricane Irene Floods, Devastates America: Millennium Prophecy

After viewing the extreme flooding it does bring to mind those "Millennium Prophets" we heard on the news back in the late 1990's and early in 2000. Remember them? Better yet, remember the aerial maps depicting the flooding, showing much of the American Southeast under water and America split in two, divided by a widened Mississippi River?

We are definitely living in a time of geologic change. As a country we need to get serious about adapting to our changing world of melting polar ice caps, more severe weather, earthquakes and rivers changing course. Just this year alone the earthquakes have been so influential as to change the earth's axis by several degrees. That affects how water and weather moves across the planet.

What Do All the Recent Global Earthquakes Mean?

From Denny: Yesterday, Easter afternoon, at the border of Mexico and America at Baja, California was an unexpected 7.2 earthquake. Since January there have been significant magnitude earthquakes in Haiti and Chile. Are these earthquakes related?

Lucy Jones, a seismologist from the U.S. Geological Survey, talks on The Today Show. When asked how long the aftershocks can go on after this big quake in Mexico: "With a magnitude 7 earthquake the aftershocks can go on for years," she said. "As it is, a magnitude 7 earthquake happens once or twice a month all over the world. This time it happened to be near where there were a lot of people."

As to how the global earthquakes are related she talked about how they "all come out of the same process." Sounds like scientists are reluctant, without sufficient data, to link the earthquakes except through process. She did talk about how long a fault line is can affect how far away the earthquake is felt. In this case of the Mexico quake it had a long fault line.

So, my question is: "With long fault lines, do they act as a conduit and domino effect with other long fault lines to set off another quake around the world?" I'll get back to you when someone answers that question.

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Videos: Explain Rare Haiti Earthquake

From Denny: On the Richter scale this earthquake was a hugely powerful "7." What does that mean in explosive power of Mother Nature? Try 35 times more powerful than one atom bomb. The quake lasted a long full minute when most quakes last only a few seconds. This is why there is so much devastation.

There is a long lateral fault that runs through Haiti and scientists had warned the country they were at risk for a huge earthquake. It has been 200 years since the country experienced this scale of disaster and this type of magnitude quake tends to run in 200 - 250 year cycles according to geologists.

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Scientists predicted this earthquake in 2008


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Dr. Arthur Lerner-Lam, a seismologist at Columbia University, shows Chris Wragge some of the geographical zones most at risk of an earthquake.


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This one shows diagrams of the underlying seismic plates and how they interacted along the fault line of about 40 miles running laterally through the country to create so much damage.


From CBS: About 90 percent of the world's earthquakes strike inside the "ring of fire," which is a 25,000 mile stretch of ocean trenches and volcanoes. Haiti's earthquake was rare, but expected.


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Video: Earthquakes, Flooding, Tsunamis, Hurricanes Intense Global Problems Affecting Millions

From Denny: Natural disasters are affecting humanity everywhere on the globe. America has been dealing with raging fires out West, flooding in the South and Midwest. China is also known for heavy flooding. Indonesia faces high level earthquakes, the Philippines saw excessive flooding of over 500,000 people displaced from their homes - and with no insurance to repair them. Australia has unusual intense dust storms choking the air so thick people are in respiratory distress. Greenland's ice, as well as the Artic and Antartic's glacial ice are all melting, raising the world's oceans. Clearly, something serious is going on with this planet.

While we hear that 2012 is supposed to be a pivotal point in the Earth's history according to the Mayans and other ancient cultures, you have to wonder if there is something here. It does make you wonder that to explain all this intense weather would be because the Earth is still in the process, and maybe has been in the process for the past 20 years, of shifting its magnetic poles. Maybe the reason 2012 was cited specificially is to either warn us that is the date the Earth's weather will be its most violent or to advise us that is the date all will finally calm down and subside.

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Radio show host was tsunami eye witness:

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This is just horrific what is happening in the Pacific region, with an underwater earthquake clocked at 7.6 on the Richter scale. Our hearts and prayers go out to everyone in Indonesia.

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The Red Cross is working feverishly trying to rescue people out of the rubble.