I feel sorry for those affected by this earthquake, but I feel sorrier for the victims of Church bombings last week. I just saw the news and they're saying a new island just appeared. Freaky! O.O
Going by what usually happens in areas like this... the death toll will be MUCH higher than 85. I suppose time will tell.
These people definitely need our prayers right now - not only for their health and wellbeing, but that their eyes might be opened.
I'm reminded of Amos 4...
"I withheld rain from you when there were still three months to the harvest...
Yet you have not returned to me.
I blasted you with blight and mildew...
yet you have not returned to me.
I sent you a plague after the manner of Egypt...
yet you have not returned to me.
I overthrew some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah...
yet you have not returned to me.
...for behold,
He who forms mountains
and creates the wind,
Who declares to man what his thought is,
and makes the morning darkness,
who treads the high places of the earth-
The Lord God of hosts is His name."
...if these things aren't a call to repent and call on the name of the Lord, I don't know what is!
I have two earthquake apps on my phone so I did see this and thought, well, well, well. But tonight I was reading where a result of this earthquake was an island popped up out of the water and thought even more interesting. I had never heard of that happening before but apparently it does.
They are still looking for people trapped under rubble in buildings and they need our prayers.