The Women's World Cup and the next 'Big One': Making the best of today
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 8 July 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR JULY 8, 2019
The fact that we cannot predict the next major earthquake makes its inevitability no less real. Today's podcast invites us to experience the hope that comes from living for eternity today.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.7 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:20.0 | Today is July 8th, 2019. |
| 0:22.6 | Let's talk about how to make the best of today. |
| 0:24.6 | The United States Women's National Soccer team won its record 4th World Cup yesterday. |
| 0:29.6 | USA Today calls their title One for the Ages and the Women, a Team for the Ages. |
| 0:35.6 | The Women's Triumph was welcome news after a frightening few days. |
| 0:40.3 | Last Thursday, a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck Southern California. |
| 0:45.3 | The next night, a 7.1 magnitude quake struck the same area. |
| 0:50.3 | These quakes occurred on a previously unknown fault line, 95 miles northeast of the San Andreas Fault. |
| 0:57.0 | Fortunately, no one was killed or injured during these earthquakes. |
| 1:01.0 | Unfortunately, according to seismologists, they did not relieve stress on the San Andreas Fault |
| 1:08.0 | or reset the clock for the big one. |
| 1:10.0 | The clock is still ticking on the next catastrophe. |
| 1:15.6 | According to the United States Geological Survey, USGS, the probability of an earthquake measuring magnitude 6.7 striking the Los Angeles area in the next 30 years is 60%. |
| 1:28.3 | A magnitude 7 earthquake has a 46% probability. |
| 1:32.3 | A magnitude 7.5 quake has a 31% probability. |
| 1:37.3 | In San Francisco, the odds of catastrophe are even higher. |
| 1:41.3 | There is a 72% chance of an earthquake measuring magnitude 6.7 and a 51% chance of |
| 1:48.6 | an earthquake measuring magnitude 7. The big one last struck the Los Angeles area in 1857, producing a |
| 1:55.9 | 7.9 tremor. The USGS projected in 2008 that if such a quake were to strike the same area again, |
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