Science doesn't contradict God, and God doesn't contradict science:
They're thinking 28-30 minutes. Having been caught in a freak storm, I know how fast nature can hit you. One moment I was strolling toward this beautiful blue rockpool on the beach and thinking 'whoa, those clouds look funny, lemme take a picture', the next we were running in the opposite direction with gale force winds as cold as ice shoving us from behind, hailing rain and sand at us. I mean it was pretty quick and scary.
When an earthquake hits, usually by the time it's registered in my head what's happening and that I should be heading for the table with the kids, it's over already.
Now I live on an island, and as far as I'm aware we have no underground bunkers here. If this thing is coming from underneath us, I think us being the arse of the place they call 'downunder' are going to be hit the first and hit the hardest. We'll be gone before the rest of the world catches on.
That and I've been having dreams of tsunamis again. The last one was different from the usual. We got caught in the first wave, there was CHAOS, but when the wave retracted itself it gave us a chance to run for the hills. Funny that the hill top we were on looked exactly like the ones outside my window. Anyway. Somehow we were in the ocean even though we were at the highest peak, because the water was basically right by my feet, and I could see the swells of the following waves headed toward land which was WAY behind us. But I was there with my babies, and I felt safe, and scared for the people who didn't (as Spartacus would say) remove head from arse and head to safety. I didn't see the rest. I think Seth had a dirty nappy so I had to wake up.
So, either it means that a major catastrophe is going to happen and we're going to survive it. OR, it means we're going to die in the first onslaught but be better off for it. I had a similar dream like this with the first Christchurch earthquake, so it's helped me a little bit with how to read my dreams.
But the point of the dream, I think, is that whatever comes, I am saved, and so are my loved ones.