Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Dennis Informed, and this is the Daily Article for Thursday, August 23, 2018.

A 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Oregon yesterday.

The earthquake followed an intense week of seismic activity in which the so-called ring of fire was rocked by 69 quakes in just 48 hours. The ring of fire stretches

25,000 miles clockwise around the Pacific Ocean from New Zealand to the southern part of South

America. Whenever such seismic activity occurs in the region, journalists speculate that the so-called

big one may be coming. This is a reference to an earthquake of eight magnitude or

higher expected to occur along the San Andreas fault. Such a quake could strike San Francisco,

Los Angeles, or other populated areas on the west coast. Seismologists say were overdue for such a

disaster. One states, quote, there's a 99.9% chance that there will be a damaging

quake magnitude greater than or equal to 6.7 somewhere in California in the next 30 years.

If you don't live along the California coast and think such warnings are irrelevant to you,

consider these facts. Storms such as the category for hurricane

that threatens Hawaii today kill an estimated 10,000 people each year. Every state in America

is at risk from tornadoes. Wildfires have burned more than 5.6 million acres so far this year.

Floods cost $6 billion in damage annually in our country.

I live in Dallas, Texas, where we're at risk from everything on the list. Are you exempt from

natural disasters where you live? When such tragedies strike, people always want to know why the

God who made our planet allow such calamities to afflict his

creation. We can respond with the fact that our world is broken as a result of sin, Romans 822,

remembering that there were no natural disasters in the Garden of Eden. We can also point out from

1 John 519 that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. We can remind people that

he's an enemy who comes only to steal and kill and destroy, John 1010. But the skeptic is likely to

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