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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,18690-1422669,00.html

Geologist gave repeated alerts
Jonathan Leake

A LEADING geologist repeatedly warned Indonesian officials that an earthquake
and tsunami would soon strike their shores, it emerged this weekend.

Kerry Sieh, professor of geology at California Institute of Technology, has
been studying the region for nearly a decade.

Last July he became so concerned at the likely massive loss of life that he
printed and distributed 5,000 posters and brochures around some of the
islands later hit by the earthquake.

He addressed church congregations and schools to tell people what to do in an
earthquake. His main advice was for people to live away from shorelines.

Sieh had been due to meet Indonesian officials last month to discuss a wider
education programme but the meeting was cancelled at the last minute because
the officials said they had no money.

Two weeks ago he expressed his fear that a big earthquake and tsunami were
overdue in the region at a conference in San Francisco.

Sieh said this weekend: "No one can predict exactly when an earthquake will
happen but it was clear that this area was at relatively high risk and such
an event would definitely happen one day.

"We told them it would kill people, wreck infrastructure and destroy
livelihoods. But our warnings were falling on deaf ears.

"My team and I decided to bypass the national and local government and start
warning people directly. I hope our efforts saved some lives."

Ten years ago Sieh installed monitors on islands off Sumatra. His research
focused on the Mentawai Islands, a chain 100 miles south of the epicentre of
the Boxing Day quake. Communication has not been re-established with the
islands since the tsunami.

At his speech to the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San
Francisco, he pointed out that, historically, such events have occurred in
clusters.

Sieh believes this means another quake could be on the way: "There is some
evidence that the stresses on the tectonic plates south of the epicentre may
now have increased and raised the chances of another major earthquake."
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Now consider ... is Kerry Sieh, professor of geology, GUILTY of the deaths of
those who would not listen?  Because he didn't do enough?

And how many are turning "deaf ears" to the warnings we are giving that lives
must be brought under the saving relationshp/fellowship of Yeshua?

Dianne
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