EARTHQUAKE

As the clock struck 6 P.M. on May 21st local time, Christmas Island also known as Kiritimati, reported no rapture or other catastrophic events. It began a series of non-events that disproved Harold Camping's long predicted End of Days. The believed rapture is the Biblical belief that Jesus Christ will arrive in a Second Coming to carry the believers up to heaven.

Harold Camping who predicted that on May 21, 2011, about 200 million people will Rapture and those left behind will die when the world gets completely destroyed on October 21, 2011, has told International Business Times (IBTimes) that “(He has) got to live with it (the fact that his prediction has failed)”.

Sony has released the first estimates of the cost of the earthquake and the hacking of the PlayStation Network.

Sony cut its outlook for fiscal year ended March 31 and now expects a loss of $3.18 billion for the period as it took a hefty charge over impact of Japanese earthquake on its operations.

Doomsday prophet Harold Camping's failed rapture theory was a product of numerical manipulation which is based on the assumption that Biblical numbers contain encoded spiritual truths.

Iceland Meteorological department has issued the following forecast for the whole country for the next 24 hours.

Family Radio president Harold Camping, whose May 21, 2011 Doomsday prediction failed, has told International Business Times (IBTimes) on Sunday , May 22, 2011 that he is as shocked as anybody else that his prediction has failed and needed some time to think and recover before giving a public statement.

False Doomsday prophet Harold Camping has told the International Business Times (IBTimes) that he would be making a public statement on or by tomorrow night in a “public forum” explaining why he had predicted May 21, 2011 as the Judgment Day and why it had failed.

The reconstruction from the devastation earthquake that hit Japan in March may cost the country 10 trillion yen to 15 trillion yen ($184 billion), said Japan's economic minister Kaoru Yosano.

The 89-year-old broadcaster of Family Radio has predicted the beginning of Doomsday on May 21st, 2011. His followers have spent millions of dollars advertising that message.

Christian preacher Harold Camping's laughable attempt to upstage the Mayans, and predict the end of the world a year before the ancient Americans' billing, has gone horribly wrong, leaving his followers devastated, both financially and psychologically. Some people, reacting on Twitter, reserved the harshest comments for Harold Camping and his failed prophesy. Others have ruminated over the possible legal implications Camping will face.

Members of churches near Oakland, Calif. based Family Radio, are pouring out in droves, offering comfort and spiritual support to the dejected followers of false Doomsday prophet Harold Camping, who has predicted that the World will end on May 21, 2011.

To comfort our friends and families who might have believed in the failed Doomsday prediction of Harold Camping, here are some earthquakes that actually happened around May 21, 2011.

With every second ticking by, the chances of Family Radio President Harold Camping being denounced as a false prophet are becoming stronger and his followers are visibly devastated and their faith shaken.

As the judgment hour passed in New York City, no one seems to rapture.

The leader of Family Radio Worldwide made a very bold statement that the world will end at 6:00pm on Saturday, May 21, 2001. Camping publically declared that he was utterly absolutely, absolutely convinced it's going to happen. However, nothing has happened so far and the world is still running as it used to be.

In a few hours May 21, 2011 6 p.m., the appointed time for Doomsday, will have passed, irrespective of whichever time zone we are in, thereby proving that the prediction made by Harold Camping is false. No wonder Camping has gone into hiding and it is improbable that he will be showing himself to the public anytime soon without a good excuse.

Even after learning that no devastating earthquake struck New Zealand, Australia, China or the consequent countries in the time zone chain, some steadfast followers of Harold Camping's church are reportedly still out on the streets carrying signs as of Saturday May 21st, 3 p.m. EST.

Self-proclaimed Doomsday prophet Harold Camping is nothing less than a charlatan, a fraud who has given a bad name to Christianity, according to Christian leaders.

Harold Camping’s May 21st ‘Doomsday’ is less than 2 hours away. Camping claimed that on May 21st, 6 p.m. local time, a rolling earthquake around the world will mark the beginning of the end times.

When it comes to news value, journalists consider the impact of a story -- how many people does it affect. Given this metric, certainly the end of the world would rank high. So it should come as no surprise that 'Doomsday' preacher Harold Camping would whip media and global citizens into a frenzy. But did anyone actually believe him?