Showing posts with label end time signs. Show all posts
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Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Council of Worlds at WAR re Announcement Delays (NEW + MORE + YET MORE ZetaTalk)

Posted by Nancy Lieder on June 19, 2015
SOZT November 1, 2014
What caused this dramatic explosion? Both Orbital Sciences and Space X have conducted successful launches, and the Antares rocket being used is not new. The mission seemed ordinary, a resupply operation. We have commented on launch failures in the US, Russia, and by the ESA over the past few years, and specified the reasons
http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/30ag2014.htm
these launches were blocked. They were to be used to intimidate from space, to spy on desperate migrants, or to facilitate an escape into space for the elite. Was this latest NASA disaster blocked for a similar reason?  

The elite – the wealthy and politically powerful in the world – have continued in their attempts to thwart the announcement by Obama and his partners admitting that Nibiru, aka Planet X exists. We have long stated that the announcement date was set by Obama and Xi at their June 7-8, 2013 meeting in Santa Monica. The flustered slip given by the French Foreign Minister on May 13, 2014 re “500 days
http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/17ma2014.htm
until climate chaos” was in reference to this, as the date set was to be 500 days from the 2013 meeting, ie October 20, 2014. There was an obvious test of the EBS system
http://www.11alive.com/story/news/local/2014/10/24/att-uverse-emerg...
on October 24, 2014, designed to flush out any remaining saboteurs that could delay or counter the announcement.

Now it has been announced that the White House has been under cyber attack
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/28/white-house-hacked_n_60651...
for the past two weeks, a period of time leading into October 20 and the days following. This latest launch disaster is a clear and pointed message to the elite to cease their attempt to prevent the common man from knowing what the elite know – that Nibiru has arrived and another passage is pending. The Council of Worlds considers this to be WAR against the selfish elements among the elite who are using their knowledge about the pending passage to retain their privileged positions while preventing the common man from coming to terms with what is in their near future. These elite should expect more than exploding launches, in their future.
EOZT
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SOZT November 8, 2014
Although the EBS system did arrive at AT&T U-verse clients, it was intended to go out to all TV stations and did not. This despite extensive checking in the months ahead of that Friday October 24. TV stations are not owned by the government, in the main, and this is certainly true in the US. They are corporate owned, and thus subject to the dictates of the wealthy elite who own them. Thus the EBS and Oval Office routes are closed to Obama, as are any pressers where he is speaking live. The fact that this block would be so complete and ruthless was frankly a surprise to the announcement team.

What did the White House hacking reveal, where their internet connections were accessed days prior to the week of  October 20 and following? Per news reports, the US was informed that they were hacked by a friendly foreign power and Russian text was found within the hacking software, so the Russians were suspected. This was a setup as the Russians were not involved, but rather Israel at the helm, as they also are part of the cover-up team. The Jewish banking system is very much opposed to the announcement. This whole hacking system was to ensure that the White House had NO route to the outside press, thus emails to the media were haphazard during the outage.

Relying solely on Russia or China to proceed would get the truth out BUT since the block had always been on the US end, via Reagan’s national security directive, without a confirmation from Obama this is awkward and subject to being countered. If true, where is the confirmation from Obama? It would be packaged as some odd communist attack against Obama going into the elections, to make him seem weak, almost comical. So where is this going now? For us to comment would be to empower the enemy, which of course we will not do. Your curiosity is not as important as having the announcement succeed.
EOZT
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SOZT November 5, 2014
Nancy has entertained various possible strikes against the elite controlling the media and boxing Obama in, as a means of both buoying her spirits and those of the many people who like she are deeply discouraged. How can migration begin, and survival camps be started, if the public is being told one thing by their government and another by ZetaTalk? Nancy is not the only party discouraged. The wealthy elite countering the announcement include the banking industry, Wall Street, and the government of Israel. They feel their secrets are safe despite the theft of Gold from Fort Knox, Wall Street crimes not yet revealed or prosecuted, off-shore accounts, and various crimes committed by Israel who think themselves invisible.

The best term to describe the means by which the Council of Worlds will apply pressure on these elite is blackmail. They not only know where the proof of crimes lays, and the absolutely proof of who instituted the crimes and participated, the Council also has POSSESSION of this proof. Information going viral on the Internet or via many media routes not controlled by the elite ensures that exposure would be sudden, complete, unstoppable, and the proof in the hands of those who would be most offended and infuriated by the revelations. The villains have already been presented with their options and have been given scant time to comply or suffer the consequences.
EOZT
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SOZT November 13, 2014
Are there clues that the elite who have been blocking the announcement admitting the presence of Nibiru are under assault by the truth?  In negotiations, the coup de grâce is not delivered as a first blow. It is held until negotiations have failed. To start, the competence of the party to DELIVER such blows is demonstrated. Reagan is long dead, as is Thatcher, but for a highly private conversation in 1983 to be revealed, not just in the words expressed but in Reagan’s own VOICE, is an example of how competent the Council of Worlds is at delivering on their promise. Another example is the highly private deal that Tony Blair arranged with PetroSaudi, suddenly in the press. There is NOTHING they could not reveal to the public, is the message.

The ning blog
http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/nasa-exploding-launch-the-...
on the Council of Worlds threats to the elite has also recorded a number of banking crimes, suddenly being settled between the regulators and the banks. These issues are quite international, with regulators from a number of countries involved – NBA fees in Australia; RBS, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, UBS and Citibank fined in the UK and US over currency fixing; Barclays, the CIA bank involved in crimes as far back as the S&L crisis in the US, being forced into a settlement.  Why the rush? It is not necessarily fresh evidence that is forcing the rush, it is the anticipation that more could be revealed, so the banks are suddenly eager to close the case. They have on other issues been given EVIDENCE, a taste, of what awaits them if the Council of Worlds proceeds.

Another clue to what is happening behind the scenes is the media focus. In the past these issues would NOT be in the media, or on some back page or conspiracy site if at all. Media handlers have started to loosen their grip on what can be reported, though this grip is still a strangle hold. The Media moguls, such as Murdock, are experimenting, loosening the reigns bit by bit. Soon they personally will be faced with embarrassing revelations, both personal and criminal, in press outlets NOTfriendly to the target. The Internet spreads the word, and as long as ANY major media outlet reports some news, it gets around. This game has just begun!    
EOZT
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SOZT December 4, 2014
The dynamics of this latest Netanyahu power grab give the appearance of strength but the situation is the opposite. Traditionally, when Israel had been under attack in any way, the political right would gain strength, the citizens fearing annihilation in a land surrounded by resentful Arabs. Netanyahu has always managed to return to power, thus. Given the recent Gaza war (where Israel grabbed another 1,000 acres
http://article.wn.com/view/2014/09/01/Israel_grabs_nearly_1000_acre...
of land) and the rise of ISIS in the Middle East, it would on the surface appear that he is taking the opportunity to reshape Parliament and his Cabinet to his liking. Behind the scenes, however, something else is brewing.
Netanyahu appears to be overreacting, as though he needs to consolidate power before another onslaught. Israel and the banking industry represented by powerful Jews were cited by ourselves as being enemies of the announcement admitting the presence of Nibiru. What can be seen since the Council of Worlds went to war with this crowd is that Israel has been cited at the UN for its possession of nuclear weapons (a fact they have always denied) and their treatment of the Palestinians.  European countries are increasingly condemning Israel for their land grabs in Palestine, France recently joining this list.

With Parliament dissolved, and his Cabinet reduced to those compliant with him, he is essentially a dictator until March. Netanyahu has always relied on the US to counter UN resolutions, as the US sits on the Security Council and can veto. Via political campaign contributions, he assumes he owns Congress. Congress budgets funds for Israel, bundling this into bills that Obama is inclined to accept. The US is also bankrupt, relying upon the good graces of the Federal Reserve. European countries are strong trading partners with Israel, thus Europe is inclined to continue this lucrative trade.

Who and what could counter this arrangement and rein Netanyahu in? The citizens of Israel. If he falls out of favor, due to exposure of crimes in his past, then the vote in March could go in a very different direction. In matters of pressure on those blocking the announcement, it is also not the blocking party that is the target. Pressure can work via many routes. Trading partners can be pressured to cancel contracts and block trade in sympathy with Palestinians. Members of the US Congress can be pressured to suspend payments to Israel. If signaled privately by the Fed that pressure on Israel might proceed, the US might support UN resolutions. But it is primarily the democratic vote in March that Netanyahu would fear. Might he declare martial law, if pressed? Absolutely, and this is likely to happen shortly.
EOZT
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SOZT December 7, 2014
Where it is clear that popular websites like the Drudge Report and World Net Daily and CNN seemed inaccessible for hours, it is not clear who did the deed. Was this a hack, related to the hack into Sonny data just days before? Was this a government sponsored test, to snuff the news if the announcement admitting that Nibiru is real and nearby occurs? Was this at the hand of the New World Order, the elite who presume to run the world? Who would have the ability to stop the flow of only SELECT websites as the data departs from various Internet Service Providers (ISP)?

The cutoff was at the point of origin, the test pointing to the specific ISP server via the Internet Domain Name Servers (DNS) which translate a request for CNN.com to a unique series of numbers – the server Internet Protocol (IP) address. The requests came in, but no data went out. Instead, a substitute blank page informed the requestor that the request had timed out, or the domain name could not be found. This Internet shutoff test was to determine the effectiveness not only of the cutoff, but of its ability to SELECTIVELY cutoff websites. Some blocked, others allowed to function normally.

TV stations have an automatic cutoff, and can be controlled thus by a switch. Why else is there a 30 second delay during broadcasts? All TV stations and major ISP’s are owned by someone, and have a major stockholder who is wealthy. The dominant stockholders, thus, are either part of the elite wanting to block the announcement by Obama or can be influenced by one of the elite. They are known, and can be threatened. Though considered ultra-rightist, the Drudge Report was included in the test as Drudge was inclined to succumb to Council of Worlds pressure, allowing the truth about Nibiru to appear on his popular site.

All this is a sign of the intensity of the battle behind the scenes, where the Council of Worlds has gone to war with those blocking the announcement. The public has a right to know the truth about the pending passage. The primary villains are the banking industry, Israel at the hands of Netanyahu, and the wealthy elite who control the media. Secondary villains are Republicans or the ultra-right politicians who ally with corporations and the 1%, and fear a rioting populace will degrade their assets. The royal family in the UK, the Queen, are also adamantly opposed to the announcement as they plan to flee the UK as it floods and drowns and want secrecy around their plans. During this war, the cover-up crowd may start attacking EACH OTHER, and the war is at that point.
EOZT
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SOZT December 10, 2014
We have stated that the public will see only the flash and parry of swords from a distance during the Council of Worlds war with the cover-up crowd. Meanwhile, periodic tests of the Emergency Broadcast System in the US are done, to see if the channels are open. As of this writing, they are not yet open. The war is still on, full press. Meanwhile, during the flash and parry of swords, one can see resistance, pleading, panic, and capitulation.

While loudly maintaining bravado,
http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/29no2014.htm
refusing to give Obama coverage on his immigration amnesty announcement, there are subtle signs that the media is starting to comply. No perpetrator was identified when several major media sites - including the popular Drudge Report and CNN and MSNBC – were down for hours,
http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/13de2014.htm
clamped off at the website ISP. This was done by the elite, to warn the media not to comply with the Council’s demands. Now the CIA torture reports - an extreme embarrassment to cover-up advocates Dick Cheney, the CIA, and the Republican Party -  is getting prime time coverage.  Progress has been made.

While loudly proclaiming that they will indeed go to Mars, the Orion test flight was delayed for a day
http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/13de2014.htm
until crucial life support equipment tests were removed. Meanwhile, the bravado and bragging continues, as the elite hope that after the announcement they can go back to business as usual – saving their own skins. Bankers are still being found dead for mysterious or suspect reasons, but killing witnesses will not allow them to escape an expose. The banking industry has now begun to pressure media moguls to allow the announcement. Netanyahu’s power grab
http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/06de2014.htm
looked on the surface to be coming from strength, but he has over reacted by isolating himself. He will thus be the obvious target when Israel’s secrets are revealed.

Since the Council of Worlds went to war with the cover-up, the Sonny hack occurred, with the FBI still not able to discern who the perpetrators are. N Korea does not have the skills, and demands that The Interview - a movie embarrassing to N Korea - be pulled just part of the frame-up.  The group making claims, the Guardians of Peace, is working at the hands of the Council of Worlds, and is being assisted by angels, thus. Sony is being used as an example, to other media elite, of what lies ahead for them if they do not comply with the Council’s demands. Time is running out for these media moguls.

And what of William and Kate’s sudden visit to the US, which included a one-on-one between William and Obama? The Queen and many in the UK government are adamantly opposed to breaking the cover-up over the presence of Nibiru. The Queen has sought asylum
http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue023.htm
in various countries, including the US under Bush, as she intends to desert the commoners in the UK when the Earth changes increase. William and Kate and their adorable toddler have recently visited New Zealand,
http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/28sp2013.htm
seeking this for the royal family. But this visit to the US is to strike a deal – the Queen will allow the announcement re Nibiru if Obama agrees to bring the royal family to the US and give them protection. The offer was, of course, refused.   
EOZT

Monday, June 29, 2015

Cindy Jacobs and Pegasus


The “Pegasus Action” sermon has not only allowed us to understand the massive scale and importance of the “2012 Glorious Hope” messages, but it has also unveiled the mysteries hidden in Apostle John’s vision denoted in the Book of Revelation.

The sermon has also linked to the prophecy given to the Church of Zion by various prophets in the past and how these prophecies of the Church of Zion about living out God’s calling will be fulfilled.

Because God has sent out His warnings to the Church of Zion and about the end of Times through His prophets.
These prophecies are like the many puzzles of a big picture.
The revival mentioned in these prophecies is of such extensive scale that is beyond our imagination.

However, the ““Pegasus Action” sermon can resemble all the puzzles into a complete picture and blue print – that is God’s holistic action plan in the end times and the important and soon-to-be-completed destiny of “4794” that God has appointed the Church of Zion.
This destiny enables Christians to complete God’s final plan together in the end times.

Since Martin Luther’s period 500 years ago,
God has sent His servants to restore one missing truth after the other.
Through their preaching and protocol, they have restored the furniture in the Holy Temple of the Old Testament.

But this time, it’s not about restoring a physical building, it’s about taking the definition of the Holy Temple, planting it in the heart of Christians and to transform them into living Stones and a spiritual house.

1 Peter 2:5 
You also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

The church history is based on God's plan. From the outer court slowly into the Holy of Holies, Lutheranism, as the bronze altar is restored; baptism as the “sea” metal basins, praise and worship as the golden altar of incense whereas teachings of the faith refers to tables for showbread.

in the end times, the church will restore the furniture inside the Holy Temple, all placed inside the Ark of the Covenant, they are: a memorial jar of manna, Aaron’s rod that budded and Moses’ "testimony", which refer to God’s words, the power of the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment.

This is also the teaching of the types of powers that Christians have upon maturity as mentioned in Hebrews Chapter 6.

Hebrews 6:1-2
Therefore let us move beyond the elementary teachings about Christ and be taken forward to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death, and of faith in God, instruction about cleansing rites, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

These are the two types of power mentioned in Chapter 12 of the Revelation that was shared in the “2012 Glorious Hope” sermon. The man child that has a resurrected body will have the power to rule all nations and will be snatched up to God.
And this child will have the same resurrected body as Jesus Christ’s.

This will be an unprecedented wonder never seen in human history.
Many people and even those who are dead will be snatched up to heaven.
And many who have a resurrected body will appear on earth.
The miracles that they can perform are greater than those that were performed by Jesus Christ. This will bring a revival that is greater than that of the New Testament church.

This is because our Lord Jesus Christ has once said: we would do even greater things than His time.

John 14:12
Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.

As mentioned in previous sermons, Rick Joyner has shared the prophecy of an island in the middle of a sea, which has yet to be realized.

The reason is that what is mentioned in Isaiah chapter 60 has yet to happen in history: Nations and kings will come to the light. This phenomenon will happen in the darkest days of mankind, the 7-year tribulation.

Isaiah 60:1-3
"Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you. See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the LORD rises upon you and his glory appears over you. Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.

The reason is that when the gold jar of manna, the last chapter of God's words is completed, which is the completion of the Holy Temple, and also the time of the revival of God's words.

When the Holy Temple is completed, the child is born, the revived body appears, Isaiah chapter 60 and the prophecy of the island will be born in the church of Hong Kong, situated at the heart of Pegasus, nurtured by Freemasons for over hundred years.

As Rick Joyner prophesized nations and kings will come to the light of this Island. At that time, the phenomenon described in Haggai chapter 2 will happen.

Haggai 2:6-9
"This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'In a little while I will once more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land.
I will shake all nations, and the desired of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,' says the LORD Almighty.
'The silver is mine and the gold is mine,' declares the LORD Almighty.
'The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house,' says the LORD Almighty. 'And in this place I will grant peace,' declares the LORD Almighty."

When nations and kings come to the light, revival will spread like light by Hong Kong brothers and sisters to East Asian countries, building thousands of churches.
This will then confirm Cindy Jacobs’ prophecy on the Church of Zion 20 years ago.

This also confirms the laying on of hands gathering for the Church of Zion in 1991. God, through the prophets, told that the Church of Zion was the story of the Joseph’s people with branches climbing over a wall. This will also be the day when Joseph is set right in the story about Joseph.

At that time, when people receive this 2012 message, the sermons prepared by the church and uploaded to the Internet will be transferred to everyone who accepts this message.
Like what is said in Habakkuk, one day the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

This also leads to what Micah describes in chapter 4, verse 1-2, “The law will go out from Zion, and peoples will stream to the mountain.”

Also, with the revived body, the prophecies of the New Breed and Joel’s Army emphasized by Paul Cain in 1980s will truly be realized.

The reason is that when these group of people with the revived body, they are truly the New Breed.
They are the newborn child of the woman in Chapter 12, Revelation, without being devoured by the dragon.

As Paul Cain saw in the vision, being influenced by the revival, two million New Breed apostles will appear, carrying the ark to Zion.
This is because they experience and revive the power of the ark.

Also, the meetings led by these apostles will be filled by people in the stadiums and miracles of resurrecting the dead.
People will have meetings day and night and news will cover the meetings continuously.
With God’s words, God’s power and glory will fill the earth like water filling the ocean, confirming the phenomenon of the end-time spring and autumn rains described in Joel, creating the Joel’s army in Paul Cain’s prophecy.

Although this is an unprecedented revival, at the same time, this kind of revival only lasts for a short period of time.
Because the birth of the child will be like a baby being born, with the head coming out first, meaning that the leaders will be caught up first and receive the revived body and become the bride and virgin.

Brothers and sisters will strive to grow up after them, like the New Testament apostles started to take over the revival brought about by Jesus after his resurrection and ascension.

Likewise, after the leaders are caught up, brothers and sisters will build up churches in different nations under Pegasus.
They will participate and share heavy responsibility in the meetings, like carrying the ark, manifesting the power of raising the dead and eternal judgment, confirming the prophecy of Cindy Jacobs.

They will grow during endless harvest and growth of believers.
This kind of revival will later spread all over the world.

Corresponding the heavenly constellations created by God, the sign of the Zodiac, Aquarius will succeed Pisces. From Pisces, standing for the era of “fishers of men” in Jesus’ time, the world will enter Aquarius, representing the era of China and Hong Kong.
That is after 2012, the phenomenon of God’s words and power pouring all over the world.

When brothers and sisters grow up to the size of the child, they will be caught up in sequence and join the wedding of the Lamb.

The rest of the people inspired by the revival, those who did not follow God but now return to Jesus or new believers, and the 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel in Revelation, they are other children of the woman in Chapter 12 of Revelation.

They will become the witnesses in sackcloth, receiving the last chance for getting heavenly rewards, which is to fight against the antichrist for 1260 days and will later be caught up in sequence, receiving the status of guest.

At the end, Lord Jesus will come back with thousands of saints to destroy the antichrist and his powers.

This completes the entire blueprint and plan given to the Church and even every brother and sister in the Church of Zion in the end times by God who has prepared the plan for 6000 years.

According to God’s prophecy and Revelation, this plan will definitely be fulfilled and realized.

Saturday, June 27, 2015

What Is a Tsunami?

By Matt Williams via Universe Today, 24 June 2015
The wave from a tsunami crashes over a street in Miyako City, Japan on March 11th, 2011. Credit: REUTERS/Mainichi Shimbun

For people living in oceanfront communities, the prospect of a tsunami is a frightening one. Much like earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes and tornadoes, tsunamis are one of the most destructive natural forces on the planet. And much like these other phenomena, they require the right conditions to happen and are more common in some areas of the world than others.

Knowing how and when a tsunami will strike has therefore a subject of great interest for scientists over the ages. But for anyone who has lived in certain parts of the world where “tsunami zones” are common – namely Japan and the South Pacific – it is a matter of survival.

Definition:
Numerous terms are used in the English language to describe large waves created by the displacement of water, with varying degrees of accuracy. The term tsunami, for example, is literally translated from Japanese to mean “harbor wave”. There are only a few other languages that have an equivalent native word, though similar meanings can be found in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and the Indian Subcontinent.

The term tidal wave has also been used, which is derived from the most common appearance of a tsunami – an extraordinarily high tidal bore. However, in recent years, the term “tidal wave” has fallen out of favor with the scientific community because tsunami actually have nothing to do with tides, which are produced by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun rather than the displacement of water.

Tsunamis initiate when an earthquake causes the seabed to rupture, which leads to a rapid decrease in sea surface height directly above it. Credit: howitworksdaily.com

The term seismic sea wave also is used to refer to the phenomenon, due to the fact that the waves most often are generated by seismic activity such as earthquakes. However, like “tsunami,” “seismic sea wave” is not a completely accurate term, as forces other than earthquakes – including underwater landslides, volcanic eruptions, underwater explosions, land or ice slumping into the ocean, meteorite impacts, or even sudden changes in weather – can generate such waves by displacing water.

Causes:
The principal cause of a tsunami is the displacement of a substantial volume of water or perturbation of the sea. This is usually the result of earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, glacier calvings, or more rarely by meteorites and nuclear tests. The waves formed in this way are then sustained by gravity.

Tectonic earthquakes trigger tsunamis when the sea floor abruptly deforms and vertically displaces the water above. More specifically, a tsunami can be generated when thrust faults associated with convergent or destructive plate boundaries move abruptly and displace water.

Tsunamis have a small amplitude (wave height) offshore, and a very long wavelength (often hundreds of kilometers long), and only grow in height when they reach shallower water. Once there, the wavelength shortens as the wave encounters resistance, thus increasing the amplitude increases and causing the wave to rears up in a massive tidal bore.


In the 1950s, it was discovered that tsunamis larger than what had previously been believed possible could be caused by giant submarine landslides. These rapidly displace large water volumes, as energy transfers to the water at a rate faster than the water can absorb. Their existence was confirmed in 1958, when a giant landslide in Lituya Bay, Alaska, caused the highest wave ever recorded (524 meters/1700 feet).

A village near the coast of Sumatra that was devastated by the Tsunami that struck South-East Asia in 2004. Credit: US Navy/Public Domain

In general, landslides generate displacements mainly in the shallower parts of the coastline, such as in closed bays and lakes. But an open oceanic landslide large enough to cause a tsunami across an ocean has not yet happened since the advent of modern seismology, and only rarely in human history.

Meteorological phenomena, such tropical cyclones, can generate a storm surge that will cause sea levels to rise, often in coastal regions. These are what is known as meteotsunamis, which are tsunamis triggered by sudden changes in weather. When such tsunamis reach shore, they rear up in shallows and surge laterally, just like earthquake-generated tsunamis.

Tsunamis can also be triggered by external factors, such as meteors or human intervention. For instance, when a meteor of significant strikes a region of the ocean, the resulting impact is enough to displace high volumes of water, thus triggering a tsunami. There has also been much speculation since World War II of how a nuclear detonations have trigger a tsunami, but all attempts at research (especially in the Pacific) have yielded poor results.

Characteristics and Effects:
Tsunamis can travel at well over 800 kilometers per hour (500 mph), but as they approach the coast, wave shoaling compresses the wave and its speed decreases to below 80 kilometers per hour (50 mph). A tsunami in the deep ocean has a much larger wavelength of up to 200 kilometers (120 mi), but diminishes to less than 20 kilometers (12 mi) when it reaches shallow water.

When the tsunami’s wave peak reaches the shore, the resulting temporary rise in sea level is termed run up. Run up is measured in metres above a reference sea level. A large tsunami may feature multiple waves arriving over a period of hours, with significant time between the wave crests.

Tsunamis cause damage by two mechanisms. First, there is the smashing force of a wall of water traveling at high speed, while the second is the destructive power of a large volume of water draining off the land and carrying a large amount of debris with it.

It is often difficult for people to recognize a tsunami in the open ocean because the waves are much smaller further out at sea than they are close to shore. As with earthquakes, several attempts have been made to set up scales of tsunami intensity or magnitude to allow comparison between different events.

Ships try to extinguish a blaze at oil refinery tanks in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, after the tsunami that struck in March, 2011. Credit: EPA

The first scales used routinely to measure the intensity of tsunami were the Sieberg-Ambraseys scale, used in the Mediterranean Sea and the Imamura-Iida intensity scale, used in the Pacific Ocean. This latter scale was modified by Soloviev to become the Soloviev-Imamura tsunami intensity scale, which is used in the global tsunami catalogs compiled by the NGDC/NOAA and the Novosibirsk Tsunami Laboratory as the main parameter for the size of the tsunami.

In 2013, following the intensively studied tsunamis in 2004 and 2011, a new 12 point scale was proposed, known as the Integrated Tsunami Intensity Scale (ITIS-2012). This scale was intended to match as closely as possible to the modified ESI2007 and EMS earthquake intensity scales.

Tsunamis throughout History:
Japan and the Pacific Ocean may have the longest recorded history of tsunamis, but they are an often underestimated hazard in the Mediterranean Sea region and Europe in general. In his History of the Peloponnesian War (426 BCE), Greek historian Thucydides offered what could be considered the first recorded speculation about the causes of tsunamis – where he argued that earthquakes at sea were the reason for them.

An aerial view of tsunami damage in Tohoku. Credit: US Navy

After the tsunami of 365 CE devastated Alexandria, Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus described the typical sequence of a tsunami. His descriptions included an earthquake and the sudden retreat of the sea, followed by a gigantic wave.

More modern examples include the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and tsunami (which was caused by activity in the Azores–Gibraltar Transform Fault); the 1783 Calabrian earthquakes, which caused several ten thousand deaths; and the 1908 Messina earthquake and tsunami – which caused 123,000 deaths in Sicily and Calabria and is considered one of the most deadly natural disasters in modern European history.

But by far, the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami was the most devastating of its kind in modern times, killing around 230,000 people and laying waste to communities throughout Indonesia, Thailand, and Southern Asia.

In 2010, an earthquake triggered a tsunami which devastated several coastal towns in south-central Chilem, damaged the port at Talcahuano and caused 4334 confirmed fatalities. The earthquake also generated a blackout that affected 93 percent of the Chilean population.

In 2011, an earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku led to a tsunami that struck Japan and led to 5,891 deaths, 6,152 injuries, and 2,584 people to be declared missing across twenty prefectures. The tsunami also caused meltdowns at three reactors in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant complex.

Tsunamis are a force of nature, without a doubt. And knowing when, where, and how severely they will strike is intrinsic to ensuring that we can limit the damage they do cause.

Universe Today has articles on about tsunamis and causes of tsunamis.

For more information, try tsunami and causes of tsunamis.

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