The great earthquake is so great that the islands flee away, and the mountains will not be found. Mountains, entire mountain ranges will disappear during this earthquake! Will they simply be level out? Will it shake so great that the entire Rocky Mountain range will spread itself out across the American continent, as will the Himalayas and other great mountain ranges? I don't think this is the extent of the quake because if the earthquake could cause the rock based mountains to level out across the continents, the next verse would not be mentioning a hail of stones, it would be mentioning the oceans throwing great walls of water washing the continents clean. The water will move further than the rocks will and that kind of shaking would cause the oceans to send tsunami's all the way across continents. We've recently seen what a nine point earthquake can do to the ocean currents and tsunami's, one strong enough to flatten the mountains would be tens of thousands of times stronger than a nine, probably in the range of at least a 14 on the Richter Scale if not more. This is a quake we've not even imagined yet.

So, if the mountains are not going to simply sift away, then what will happen to them? I believe the answer lies in the Old Testament, in fact in the Books of Moses himself. Before we look at that, lets see what exactly is going on here.