Recently an earthquake devastated Haiti, taking thousands of lives and destroying cities and homes. Yesterday, an earthquake hit Chile, an 8.8 on the rector scale with aftershocks of 7.8, equivalent to another earthquake. The people are calm in the chaos and destruction around them. I pray for the people and families whose homes were destroyed and loved ones lost.
These events make me look at how fortunate I am and all the blessings I have. You should count your own, because we always have more than we realize. Even if times are really hard right now, someone else is going through the same thing or worse.
One thing that I find interesting is the number of earthquakes so close together. And the magnitude of the one in Haiti and Chile was not anything near small, they were huge. What is this supposed to mean? Anything, or nothing? And its just the earth adjusting and we don’t need to think that the world is going to end(like some of the attitudes about global warming).
for every point one on the rector-scale is ten times. So the one in Chile being an 8.8 is 240 times as large as the Haiti one.