These would appear to be the early days of the tribulation.
It would appear also that you're slanting data and leaving out facts. For instance, as instrumental sensitivity and disbursement increases - one would expect a rise in the number of reported Earthquakes. I think if you look at a comprehensive comparison of the datasets, you'll find that while the number of reported Earthquakes have gone up - the average magnitude of Earthquakes has gone down. We're simply able to pick up more seismic activity as technology improves.
Insofar as deaths, the increase can partially be attributed to better data collection. However, more importantly, we've seen a massive push for industrialization in many second and third world countries which pushes their populations into more densely occupied urban settings. Most of these regions are traditionally non-Christian, especially along the Pacific rim, India, etc.
The USGS does not support your claim.
A partial explanation may lie in the fact that in the last twenty years, we have definitely had an increase in the number of earthquakes we have been able to locate each year. This is because of the tremendous increase in the number of seismograph stations in the world and the many improvements in global communications. In 1931, there were about 350 stations operating in the world; today, there are more than 8,000 stations and the data now comes in rapidly from these stations by electronic mail, internet and satellite. This increase in the number of stations and the more timely receipt of data has allowed us and other seismological centers to locate earthquakes more rapidly and to locate many small earthquakes which were undetected in earlier years. The NEIC now locates about 20,000 earthquakes each year or approximately 50 per day. Also, because of the improvements in communications and the increased interest in the environment and natural disasters, the public now learns about more earthquakes. According to long-term records (since about 1900), we expect about 17 major earthquakes (7.0 - 7.9) and one great earthquake (8.0 or above) in any given year.
Are Earthquakes really on the rise?
[edit on 12-5-2009 by Lasheic]
