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Earthquakes Are a Sign of a Spiritual Shift? 7.5 Quake in Afghanistan (Video) (Video)
26 Oct 15
Scores of people have died after a “Mega Mega Magnitude 7.5 Earthquake” hits Afghanistan and felt in Pakistan and India. Now, what about this: According to biblical accounts every-time there is a “Spiritual Shift” there is also an earthquake. Are we paying attention?
Quake rocks Afghanistan, Pakistan; scores dead
Scores of people were killed when a magnitude-7.5 earthquake centered in Afghanistan rocked neighboring Pakistan and rattled buildings as far away as India.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the epicenter of the quake was in the far northern Afghan province of Badakhshan, which borders Pakistan, Tajikistan and China.
“Significant casualties are likely and the disaster is potentially widespread,” the USGS said.
At least 147 people were killed in northwestern Pakistan, the Associated Press reported. The Pajhwok news service in Afghanistan had the death toll in that nation at 51.
Forty minutes after the first earthquake, a 4.8-magnitude aftershock rattled the region.
In Afghanistan’s Takhar province, west of Badakhshan, at least 12 students were killed in a stampede at a girls’ school and at least five people died when homes collapsed in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan, the AP reported.
At least 194 injured people were taken to a hospital in the Swat district of Pakistan and over 100 were taken to a hospital in Peshawar, northern Pakistan, the Pakistani news website Dawn said. Communications are down in much of the remote mountainous region and that the death toll was expected to climb.
“Many houses and buildings have collapsed in the city,” Arbab Muhammad Asim, district mayor of Peshawar, told AFP.
People in Afghan capital Kabul, India’s capital New Delhi and Pakistan’s capital Islamabad reported feeling strong tremors. In Islamabad, walls swayed and people poured out of office buildings in a panic, reciting verses from the Quran, the AP said.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif asked authorities to use all resources to help any victims, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he has asked for an urgent assessment. The quake caused widespread power outages and cut phone lines in Kabul, according to the AP.
Delhi’s metro stopped running during the tremor.
“All of around 190 trains plying on the tracks were stopped at the time of the earthquake. The lines and the trains are now being restored after basic inspection of respective lines,” Delhi Metro spokesman Anuj Dayal told AFP.
In October 2005. a 7.6 magnitude earthquake in the Kashmir region rocked parts of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan, killing more than 80,000 people. SOURCE
Earthquakes A Sign Of A Spiritual Shift
