There is a newspaper article making the rounds today, and it is both frightening and illuminating. I quote directly:
The March 11 earthquake that hit eastern Japan was so powerful it pulled the entire country out and down into the sea. The mostly devastated coastal communities now face regular flooding, because of their lower elevation and damage to sea walls from the massive tsunamis triggered by the quake.
Some areas in Ishinomaki moved southeast 17 feet (5.3 meters) and sank 4 feet (1.2 meters) lower.
"We thought this slippage would happen gradually, bit by bit. We didn't expect it to happen all at once," says Testuro Imakiire, a researcher at Japan's Geospatial Information Authority, the government body in charge of mapping and surveys.
Imakiire says the quake was powerful enough to move the entire country, the first time this has been recorded since measurements began in the late 19th century. In Tokyo, 210 miles (340 kilometers) from Ishinomaki, parts of the city moved 9 inches (24 centimeters) seaward.
Many predictions -- actually, virtually all the predictions -- concerning the Age of Transition that we live in mention immense earth changes, including massive earthquakes that transform coastlines and landscapes around the world. Penny Kelly mentions such changes in ROBES, and Edgar Cayce mentioned such changes in his predictions of the 21st Century. Until now, such catastrophic predictions have seemed impossible and outlandish. And yet, with the Japanese quake, we see what is truly possible when the earth decides to shift. And I pose the question, Is this just the tip of the iceberg? If we have just now witnessed the earth shift 17 feet sideways and 4 feet down, isn't it possible that the earth is capable of far greater shifts? For we are in for stormy weather, and the storm is just beginning.
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