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5 Videos Showing Massive Damage From Northern Italy’s Deadly Quake
- Posted on May 20, 2012 at 9:48am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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At least six people were killed and dozens injured in northeast Italy early Sunday after what was said to be the strongest earthquake to shake the region in hundreds of years.
The magnitude-6.0 temblor struck at 4:04 a.m., with its epicenter about 22 miles north of Bologna.
An Italian official told the Associated Press it was the worst quake the area had seen since the 1300s, leaving cracked bell towers, chunks of church facades lying in the streets and caved-in roofs.
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Gypsy123
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 10:08pmLuke 21:11
English Standard Version (ESV)
11 There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
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Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 11:45amI have much family here and cannot get hold of them. I woke up to this news, please pray for my family and the rest of the folks there. I am trying to not let my nerves get the better of me but some of my aunts just landed 2 days ago to visit my cousins and extended family. Prayers would be appreciated.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 12:00pmThe towers and hard lines are most likely down and out, along with the power. None the less , prayers.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 12:12pmPraying for them Horsecrazy…..May God bless you family and bring them safely through this terrifying event.
Report Post »I hope they are able to reach you soon and put your fears to rest.
Jenny Lind
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 12:29pmWe will add our prayers, God bless
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 1:44pmMy prayers are with you and your family members. It seems the older buildings bore the brunt of the damage. Keep us posted. Contact your local Red Cross, they may be able to get a verbal answer for you.
Report Post »americansfightingforcommonsense
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 2:04pmAbsolutely, prayers on the way. May Heavenly Father protect your family and all others that have made it through this earthquake. May he comfort all involved.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 3:22pmI prayed for them Horsecrazy.
Report Post »Wringeaux
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 5:58pmIt looks like only very old brick buildings were damaged. Newer buildings next to old ones appear undamaged.
Report Post »sydneybond
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 6:09pmpraying for your family
Report Post »Gypsy123
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 10:05pmDear Father please be with this family and protect this persons family and deliver them out safely.
Report Post »Amen
rickc34
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 11:32amThings appear to be going crazy worldwide. Fear of more wars , earthquakes , economic collapse and more. We live in a bubble here in the states but even we have seen increase of tornados leaving thousands homeless and hundred dead or injured. Our goverments are broke both federal and state but our politicians are living the good life. Some pretend to be Christian but they are not. You know a tree by the fruit it bears good or bad . I seen a lot of bad. A President who tries to put words in the mouth of GOD. Liberals do not like sound doctrine but will misqoute the Bible to fool the ignorant mass’s . Do not be fooled by these people read the Bible for yourselfs do not be ignorant. Read matthew chap 24. May the Lord watch over our children. Pray for Israel ans her people.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 12:42pmWhy do you like my posts? I am a her.
Report Post »Gypsy123
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 10:06pmHave you read the Harbinger we are not out of the woods in the USA.
Report Post »G-WHIZ
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 10:40amThis is a poor way to hide an OWS protest…”oh, Wee’ll just cover it up with an earthquake.”
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 10:35amA mere warning.
Report Post »Jezreel
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 10:10amBuilding codes play such a huge part of how much destruction will happen.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 11:48amyes they do and in these older countries, the beauty of the old structures increases character as well as potential for disaster. thankful that it isn’t worse than this.
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 10:10amOnce again pinbrains — I write something, you post it, cause you’re a bunch of incorrigible pushovers. Whatever happened to the poster Jenny Lind? I love her/his posts.
A French guy wrote me off YouTube. An artist. That is happening everywhere. These angels who are saving a fallen world.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 11:46amgo back on your medication. when life is lost it is not a laughing matter ever.
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 1:07pmHorsecrazy — does that mean you are crazy because you are on horse? On heroin?
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 1:55pm@mousezilla…When a French guy gets your goat it’s time to reassess the situation.
Report Post »It’s hard to interpret the rest of your comment.
I’m not even really sure about the French guy either.
tradexpertbuysell
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 10:08amPray for the victims.
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 11:34amYes. God bless them, please.
Report Post »TheSitRep
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 7:17pmWhy? you can’t stop God from smiting folks.:)
Report Post »tradexpertbuysell
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 7:31pm@thesitrep
Why? Why why? Figure it out for yourself. Did God smite them? I don’t think so. We all have our own baggage to focus on. But for me prayer helps put things in perspective and draws mercy to all those affected the good, the bad, and the ugly such as yourself.
Report Post »nobull14
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 10:05amIt could have been a lot worse after seeing some of the buildings they do not look like there built to stand up to earth quakes ? .Still my prayer’s go out to them and hope for no aftershocks.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 10:02amAn Omen?
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 10:02amOh my. It looks like God is extremely itchily perturbed and tetchy over what has become of Greece and Rome, two places that have FORGOTTEN PHILOSOPHY –
as there is no difference at all between true religion and true philosophy. Or false religion and false philosophy.
While the rest of you are in your various hells made entirely of fear, stress, anxiety, and the casual normal swallowing of lies, ya goofs, I am on the screen porch of my Ma’s house typing on my new used wireless laptop, probably about to go to KFC for lunch. After seeing the congressman from Janesville for the second time today on TV. He looks like a holy vampire with a tender conscience, who has kind of forgotten how to worry, laughing at everything, proud and chosen.
An esoteric book I recommend to all of you: Heliotropium: Conformity of the Human Will to the Divine.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 12:46pmGive us a synopsis please.
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 1:06pmI love your posts because I love the original Jenny Lind. I’ve read her life history, her letters. She was LIFE. A beautiful woman, told constantly that she was ugly, with the divine gift of song. She had one of the happiest lives in history. Your posts…remind me of the original Jenny Lind.
Now don’t get all nervous and self-concious, because I’m about to scram, to leave this site. It is so utterly wonderful, though! I’m out of the lowest hell, the worst psych wards in Washington, DC, and the real posters, the non-trolls, are back on the Blaze! On the Feast of the Ascension!!!
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on May 20, 2012 at 3:25pmEsoteric: I see nothing to have fear of. These are times Christians are most likely looking up for “…our redemtion draweth nigh.” We are of those who are not afraid.
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