rt.com (excerpts):  Magnitude of Siberian quake raised to 9.5 (USGS shows 6.6 and needs updating).  The quake that struck southeastern Siberia late on Tuesday has been raised to 9.5, according to Russia's emergencies minister Sergey Shoigu.  The quake is the strongest ever to be detected in the region he said.  There have been no reports of damage or casualties since the tremor, initially reported as 6.7 on the Richter scale, struck a sparsely populated area in the Republic of Tyva near the Russian-Mongolian border.  However, Shoigu expressed doubts that there has been no damage at all and has ordered the authorities to stay on the alert for any aftershocks that may follow.

Commentary:  This major quake hit Tuesday, December 27, 2011, at 15:21:56 UTC, at a depth of only 6.9 km (4.3 mi).  Tyva's landscape is 80% mountains and hills with no railway and there are only three roads into Tyva.  Due to the remoteness of this country, it is possible that news of their status subsequent to such a major quake is delayed.  Jesus said, "Great earthquakes will be in various places, and famines, pestilences and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven" Luke 21:11.  The graph below demonstrates just how drastic the frequency of earthquakes has gone up only since last year:
 
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