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82 pages of results. 451. The Hurricane, Part 1 Venus Ch.3 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... cave in fear of the storm god. "The source of light disappeared, the whole world became dark," and the storm god caused monstrous destruction. Gods made terrible noise so that the sun should reappear, and from their tumult the earth quaked.(16) In Japan and in the vast extent of the ocean hurricanes and earthquakes are not rare occurrences; but they do not disturb the day-night succession, nor is there any resulting permanent change in the sky and its luminaries. "The sky was low," relate the Polynesians of Takaofo Island, and "then the winds and waterspouts and the hurricanes came, and carried up the sky to its present height ...
452. The Great Flood -- General Remarks [Books]
... satellite reaches the critical distance' from the Earth it comes to pieces under the pull of the terrestrial gravitation. The satellite's debris descends in terrible cascades of hail, rain, and core material. With the disintegration of the satellite its gravitational pull is at an end. Now the terrestrial globe returns to its original practically spherical shape amid terrific earthquakes and volcanic activity, the atmosphere spreads out again equally all over the Earth and, as the greatest event, the pent-up waters of the girdle-tide flow off to the north and south. They surge over whole continents; rising even over the highest mountains in the critical zones, and scour all the land in their terrible career. After ...
453. Isaiah, Part 2 Mars Ch.1 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... of eclipses when there were none? However, other descriptions of the world catastrophe in these prophets do not accord with the effects of an ordinary eclipse, either. The word shaog, used by Amos and Joel, is explained by the Talmud5 as an earthshock, the field of action of which is the entire world, whereas a regular earthquake is of local character. Such a shaking of the earth, disturbed in its rotation, is vizualised also as a "shaking of the sky," an expression found in the Prophets, in Babylonian texts, and in other literary sources. Then the prophecy was fulfilled. Amid the catastrophe Isaiah raised his voice: "Fear, ...
454. Temples And Obelisks, Part 2 Mars Ch.7 (Worlds in Collision) [Velikovsky] [Velikovsky Worlds in Collision]
... not to agree: whether it is that the sun itself has changed its course in consequence of some derangeme nt of the heavenly system; or whether that the whole earth has been in some degree displaced from the centre, a thing that, I have heard say, has been remarked in other places as well; or whether that some earthquake, confined to this city only, has wrench ed the dial from its original position; or whether it is that in consequence of the inundations of the Tiber, the foundations of the mass have subsided."12 The passage indicates that Pliny envisaged every possible cause, not excluding the one known to have occurred in earlier times when ...
455. Second SIS Cambridge Conference Report [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... studies of dated craters. As for the archaeological record, it is still difficult to know what precise signature to look for: the Tunguska blast (which was undoubtedly devastating) left no crater, whereas the similar-sized Meteor Crater projectile left a hole more than a kilometre across. Moreover, as shown by Amos Nur (Stanford University) even earthquakes can produce regional devastation, and may occur bunched in time over a period less than a century, followed by a quiet phase lasting hundreds or thousands of years, rather like the frequency of impacts from a massive disintegrating comet. The physical connection between impacts or cosmic dust accretion on the one hand and volcanic eruptions or other manifestations of ...
456. Environment of Violence [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... and no sure origin. As Mr. Hunt tells us, recognizing the evidence for deep-earth explosions is difficult; an exhaustive geological study of the Eastern Mediterranean may be highly rewarding as it is well known that this area is the meeting place of three tectonic plates; major tectonic fault boundaries pass through the area; and in Turkey and Greece earthquakes are not uncommon and volcanoes lie dormant. Perhaps the exposed ophiolites (mantle type rock), sediments and old seabeds in Cyprus hold the clue to the abrupt end to the Minoan culture, and interruptions in Egyptian history. This century has seen science pour scorn upon the hypothesis of continental drift, attributed to Alfred Wegener in 1915, ...
457. Oceanic Impact may have Inspired Aboriginal Legend [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... the coast the next day and found large new sea caves gouged out all along the cliffs." Prof. Bryant said the tsunami may be linked with a massive underwater mudslide on the continental shelf 50km off Wollongong, which left a debris fan 20km long and 10km wide on the sea floor- its collapse was presumably triggered by a big earthquake. But as Prof. Bryant and Dr. James Nott of James Cook University searched the Australian coastline for more evidence of tsunamis, another, almost incredible possibility emerged. "You find the signs all around the coast, once you know what you're looking for, and we found tsunami debris on the south coast, in Western Australia ...
458. Commemoration Of The 2300bc Event [Journals] [SIS Review]
... However, significant damage can result from low altitude large meteoroid fragmentation, as in the 1908 Tunguska explosion. Witnesses reported a blindingly bright bolide, with a very thick dust trail seen as a gigantic column [17]. It is estimated to have exploded 5km above ground, radiating 5-10 megatonnes of energy [18]. Seismographs registered an earthquake and the atmospheric shock wave went twice around the Earth. Magnetic disturbances similar to those later recorded after atmospheric nuclear explosions were recorded at Irkutsk Observatory [19]. The forest was devastated for 30km radius, with trees torn out and piled up like matchsticks'. The explosion took the form of a vertical column of fire, throwing ...
459. Hoerbiger (The Atlantis Myth) [Books]
... `A planet rushing from aspect malign of fiercest opposition in mid-sky'. And then catastrophe was upon them. The gravitational pull of the new satellite-whose first rush into its new orbit may have caused it to approach much nearer our planet than its present mean distance of about 60 terrestrial radii-wrenched the globe into a new, slightly flatter shape. Earthquakes of unexampled violence convulsed our world. The Earth's crust split into huge slabs. Volcanoes reared their flaming cones at the lines of fracture. The greatest change wrought by the new gravitational conditions, however, was the redistribution of the waters of the Earth's oceans. The new satellite's pull drew great quantities of water away from the higher latitudes ...
460. Atlantis - The Lost Continent Finally Found [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... actually destroyed by the cataclysm we call the Flood. The Flood is not just a Biblical invention or copy, but a fact that is recorded in hundreds of mythologies, the world over, with a remarkable consistence. The Flood was indeed a giant tsunami (often improperly called a "tidal wave") caused by a very major submarine earthquake. The vestiges of the Flood are visible everywhere, but particulary over the North American continent, as the geologists are starting to realize. This tsunami and other consequences of the cataclysm caused the death, sudden or not, of some 70% of the major species of great mammals that once roved the earth. The reality of the ...
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