This is a rather amazing clip of liquefaction of sediments during the Mexico Earthquake on Tuesday. When shaken, water-saturated sediments lose all their strength and will start flowing. Mexico City is built on exactly these kind of sediments. Here you can actually see big slabs of concrete, part of a sidewalk, moving up and down as water flows beneath them in sediments that used to support the sidewalkās weight.
The 1960 Valdivia earthquake (Spanish: Terremoto de Valdivia) or Great Chilean earthquake (Gran terremoto de Chile) of 22 May is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded. Various studies have placed it at 9.4ā9.6 on the moment magnitude scale. It occurred in the afternoon (19:11 GMT, 15:11 local time), and lasted approximately 10 minutes. The resulting tsunami affected southern Chile, Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, eastern New Zealand, southeast Australia and the Aleutian Islands.
i was reading genesis yesterday. and something stood out to me. after adam and eve failed him, God took the time to make clothes out of skin for them, even in their mess. even in their shame.Ā itās as if he saw the fig leaves they put together, and saidĀ ālet me make you something betterā. while being the least deserving of it.Ā
thatās really beautiful to me.
Amen. Itās actually prophetic, pointing to Christ and the day that He would clothe us in His righteousness – so that every day Adam and Eve are reminded not of their mistakes, but of Godās goodness towards them. Now, the days of being naked and ashamed are over with; Christ in is the hope of glory; we have been found by mercy, clothed by grace; fully embraced.
š„ There is beauty in destructionš„ 