May 21 Earthquakes: Rapture 2011 Rumors Prove False
The Huffington Post Craig Kanalley First Posted: 05/21/11 10:48 PM ET Updated: 05/21/11 10:49 PM ET
Time zone by time zone, at 6 p.m. local time on Saturday, May 21, 2011, massive earthquakes would create destruction across the globe and only believers would be saved, so Camping's theory went.
Believers were adamant that this would happen, as the campaign spread across the country and reached a fever pitch leading up to today.
But Camping's family radio was strangely quiet todayas nothing happened in New Zealand, then China, then Europe. Camping's daughter says he's "bewildered," and all he can do is wait until midnight since he was so convinced.
It 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:
