Posts Tagged ‘Earthquake’

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Promiscuous Women / Divine Retribution

by Seraphine Khorana on April 21st, 2010
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Promiscuous Women / Divine Retribution

If I can’t blame YOU, who else is there to blame?

Father Wages Court Battle Against Funeral Protests “Military deaths are the work of a wrathful God who punishes the United States for tolerating homosexuality.” (ABC News)

Why Is Pat Robertson Blaming Haiti? “The [Haitian earthquake] was divine retribution for a pact with the devil.” (Time Magazine)

Disabled Kids are God’s Punishment for Abortion “God is taking “vengeance” on parents who have had abortions by making their other children disabled.” (CBS News)

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Costa Rica, Conclusion: Aftershock

by Seraphine Khorana on February 2nd, 2009
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Costa Rica, Conclusion: Aftershock

Immediately after a disaster, one takes stock: You find the injuries and the memories, the blessings and the fear. You think “If i had been on that bridge, or if the earthquake had been longer or stronger…” You confront your own vulnerability. Others were hurt and some perished. Reverence becomes an emotion.
Information comes in whispers. There were landslides at the waterfalls. Some stairs collapsed under a family with children, but they are ok. The roads are gone, in both directions. Cinchona, the next town over, is gone. Gone? Some employees at the La Paz Waterfall Gardens live in Cinchona and have family there. Two girls died at the Poas Volcano lookout, where we were earlier. We are trapped on the mountain, which is steep and filled with faults, and it isn’t safe.

Where to help Costa Rica earthquake victims (Tico Times)

The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.
Quotation from Virginia Satir

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Costa Rica, Part Twelve: Earthquake!

by Seraphine Khorana on February 1st, 2009
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Costa Rica, Part Twelve: Earthquake!

I was near the cat enclosure when the earthquake happened. One of the cats got out of her cage. Thankfully, I didn’t have to confront a frightened cat. I saw the monkeys out of the cage, however, and somebody told me the glass cages broke in the snake house. “There are poisonous snakes loose” she said.

Post Earthquake Update on La Paz Waterfall Gardens w/Photos (WaterfallGardens.com)
Post-Earthquake Photos from Marsrox (WebShots.com)

The quotation in today’s comic is from the poem Is it Well with the Child? by Christina Georgina Rossetti.

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Costa Rica, Part Eleven: No Tocar Los Manos

by Seraphine Khorana on January 30th, 2009
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Costa Rica, Part Eleven: No Tocar Los Manos

Animals are smarter than people acknowledge. They have fundamentally disparate senses and abilities than humans, so they understand the world differently than we do.

Can Animals Predict Earthquakes? (LiveScience.com)
Animals & Earthquake Prediction (U.S. Geological Survey)

There have also been examples where authorities have forecast successfully a major earthquake, based in part on the observation of the strange antics of animals. For example, in 1975 Chinese officials ordered the evacuation of Haicheng, a city with one million people, just days before a 7.3-magnitude quake. Only a small portion of the population was hurt or killed. If the city had not been evacuated, it is estimated that the number of fatalities and injuries could have exceeded 150,000.
Quotation from National Geographic News

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Costa Rica, Part One: Apocaliptico

by Seraphine Khorana on January 15th, 2009
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Costa Rica, Part One: Apocaliptico

I was very scared. I was walking towards the La Paz Waterfalls in Costa Rica when the horrible shaking started. The volcanic soil almost liquified as boulders and trees fell around me with terrible noise. Landslides changed the course of rivers -and human lives- on that beautiful warm afternoon.
More than 600 aftershocks occurred over the next three hours, about one every three-and-a-half minutes, as we waited for help. As the last light pensively seeped from a clouded sky, the rescue helicopter lifted our group towards safety. The pilot announced in my headphones that we were the last flight out. Hundreds of others were left stranded on that frightful mountain.

Tourists evacuated after fatal Costa Rica quake (Reuters UK)
34 dead, dozens missing from Costa Rica quake (CNN)
Strongest earthquake in 150 years hits Costa Rica (Wikinews)

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