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For all the hype leading up to this, countless broadcasts and a sprawling nationwide campaign, the airwaves of Christian station Family Radio are oddly silent with May 21, 2011, finally here.
Harold Camping, president of Family Radio and a multimillionaire, has also been quiet, as the hours tick and signs of an apocalypse are nowhere to be found.
Time zone by time zone, at 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 21, 2011, massive earthquakes would create destruction across the globe and only believers would be saved, so Camping's theory went.
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Believers were adamant that this would happen, as the campaign spread across the country.
Saturday was a normal day for earthquake activity. According to the USGS, there were a handful of quakes with greater than a 5.0 magnitude, but nothing out of the ordinary. Those quakes included:
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5.8 2011/05/21 22:06:27 35.592 140.728 34.5 OFF COAST OF JAPAN
5.0 2011/05/21 21:37:11 -5.821 129.406 255.0 BANDA SEA
6.1 2011/05/21 21:17:01 -30.775 -178.133 19.8 NEW ZEALAND
5.0 2011/05/21 16:30:31 31.259 -41.003 9.9 N. MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
5.3 2011/05/21 13:08:06 17.257 121.755 45.1 LUZON, PHILIPPINES
5.0 2011/05/21 09:53:55 -7.265 147.003 42.6 EASTERN NEW GUINEA REG, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
5.2 2011/05/21 08:33:21 65.369 -166.891 19.2 NORTHERN ALASKA
5.1 2011/05/21 00:41:37 -55.997 -27.195 40.7 SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS
5.9 2011/05/21 00:16:27 -56.066 -27.165 64.8 SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS
Smaller quakes peppered the Earth as usual, including one in the Bay Area, but nothing significant. The most major event involving Mother Earth ended up being a volcano eruption in Iceland, but that happened at Iceland's most active volcano.
The non-profit Family Radio has been a primary driver to spread the word. The non-stop promotion has gone so far that the station changed the HTML Title Name of its website to "Family Radio (FR) Worldwide - Judgment Day: May 21, 2011."
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