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The panic caused by Amos' Earthquake must have been the topic of legend in Jerusalem, because Zechariah asked his readers to recall that terrifying event 230 years later. [30] In 2005 seismologist Nicholas Ambraseys reviewed the literature on historical earthquakes in Jerusalem and specifically the 'Amos' earthquake. He states that "Modern ...
Amos (/ ˈ eɪ m ə s /; Hebrew: עָמוֹס – ʿĀmōs) was one of the Twelve Minor Prophets of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament.According to the Bible, Amos was the older contemporary of Hosea and Isaiah and was active c. 760–755 BC during the rule of kings Jeroboam II of Israel and Uzziah of Kingdom of Judah and is portrayed as being from the southern Kingdom of Judah yet ...
The epicenter of this earthquake may have been 200–300 km north of present-day Israel. Multiple biblical references exist to this earthquake in the Book of Amos, [20] and also in Zechariah 14:5. [21] Recent excavations by Aren Maeir in ancient Gath have revealed evidence of a major earthquake.
Zechariah 14 is the fourteenth (and the final) chapter in the Book of Zechariah in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] [3] This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Zechariah, and is a part of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets. [4]
A similar pattern played out in 2014, before a magnitude-8.1 earthquake in Chile. Wallace, who was working for the New Zealand research institute GNS Science at the time of the 2016 quake, spent ...
The last tsunami warning in the San Francisco Bay Area followed a 9.1 earthquake in Tohoku, Japan that sparked a major nuclear accident at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant in March 2011 ...
A depiction of the earthquake in the Book of Amos; Illuminated Bible from the 1220s, National Library of Portugal. A major earthquake is referred to in the book of the prophet Amos. Amos dates his prophecy to "two years before the earthquake, when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam II son of Jehoash was king of Israel" (Amos 1:1, NIV).
Earthquake registered 7.2 miles deep Data provided by USGS showed the earthquake was about 7.2 miles deep. As of just before 8 a.m. local time , no tsunami warnings had been issued in the area.