Blog note. Jesus indicated that ‘fearful sights’ (various natural disasters) would occur leading up to the time known as the Tribulation and Great Tribulation (a combined seven year period of great destruction on earth). Although these types of things have occurred in the past for centuries and thousands of years, they could be identified as the ‘season of the times’ due to the ferociousness of these events. They would be occurring in greater intensity, severity, frequency, size, duration, scope … just like the pains that a woman experiences in labor the farther along she is in the labor process. We are in the ‘season of the times’ that comes just before the seven (7) year Tribulation/Great Tribulation period
… And great earthquakes shall be in diverse places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. (Luke 21:11).
… And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; (Luke 21:25)
… Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken; (Luke 21:26)
… This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. (2 Timothy 3:1)
Jesus is giving a series of prophecies about what to look for as the age of grace comes to a close. These verses are several of many such prophecies from throughout the Bible. 2017 was the worst year in recorded history for the intensity, frequency, severity, duration and occurrence of a large number of severe natural disasters worldwide. Earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones, torrential flooding, unprecedented wildfires in unusual places, devastating droughts, excessive/scorching heat setting records everywhere, record snowfalls in Europe and Russia. Snow in the Arabia. This list can go on. Most studied Eschatologists believe these ‘fearful sights’ and massive natural disasters are all part of the ‘CONVERGENCE’ of signs that this Biblical and prophetic age is closing. Most people who study prophecy are familiar with the routine reference(s) made that these things will be like a woman having labor pains, growing in intensity, frequency, size and duration.

Magnitude 4.3 earthquake widely felt around San Francisco Bay Area

Amy Graff, SFGATE | on July 17, 2019

A magnitude 4.3 earthquake rattled the San Francisco Bay Area Tuesday afternoon, and residents around the region widely reported feeling light shaking.

The quake struck at 1:11 p.m. with a depth of 7.46 miles and an epicenter in the East Bay, about 7.5 miles east of Blackhawk and 17 miles southeast of Concord, according to the United States Geological Survey.

“I felt it,” says Aimee Grove who lives in the East Bay. “But it just felt like a single jolt, as if something had slammed against the side of our house.”

Farther afield in the South Bay, Daniel Michalek noticed the shaking in Santa Clara. “It started as a soft jolt but continued with a rolling/swaying feeling for several seconds,” Michalek wrote to SFGATE.

A magnitude 3.5 aftershock followed at 1:28 p.m. in the same region.

The first earthquake was given a preliminary magnitude of 4.4, then downgraded to a 4.2 before the  USGS officially reported the temblor as a 4.3.

The USGS reports the 4.3 temblor occurred on the Greenville Fault. An earthquake of that magnitude could produce shaking around the epicenter but damage to structures would not be expected.

Over the last seven days, there have been three other earthquakes above magnitude 3.0 within 100 miles of today’s event. A magnitude 3.5 quake struck near Morgan Hill, roughly 60 miles south of today’s tremors, on Monday at 1:46 p.m.

USGS said that they received “Did You Feel It?” reports corresponding to the 4.2-magnitude earthquake from as far as Fresno and Roseville