We all, as Christians, know what the Lord said in Matthew chapter 24 regarding the conditions of the end of this world order just prior to His return. We are also familiar with the prophecies of Isaiah regarding such conditions. I have been monitoring seismic activity for over 20 years and I have watched as, year after year, the number and average strength of earthquakes has increased. Make no mistake, this is not an artefact of having more monitoring stations. Most old stations were upgraded at the turn of this century and a number of new ones have been added but, regardless of all that, the network of instruments around the world has been able to detect every single magnitude 4 and stronger quake since about the 1980's. The difference now is greater precision in the data for intensity and location plus much greater detection of weak quakes.
However, although I have watched the frequency of strong quakes increase, I have never seen anything like the past month. We have had four earthquakes stronger than magnitude 7 in only 30 days. These are events which, 20 years ago, had been occurring on the scale of multiple years or decades, not weeks. We have also been experiencing a magnitude 6 or stronger quake every two to three days on average, lately slightly more often than every two days. Such events usually occurred on the scale of months to a few years only a couple of decades ago. Over the years I have also noticed an obvious pattern of surges of quakes over short periods and then quieter intervals in-between, and these surges are growing in strength and duration while the quieter intervening intervals are becoming shorter, fitting perfectly with the Lord's description of being like "birth pangs", because they are birth pangs, as birth is shortly to be given to the kingdom of the Lord on the earth. I am also expecting that, over the coming months and next few years, we will start seeing seismic and volcanic activity in places not formerly associated with such things and it will surprise and shock many people and even terrify some. Along with increased quake activity, we would expect to see more frequent incidences of tsunamis, so coastland dwellers, watch out!
Following is a list of the 20 strongest quakes detected over the last 30 days (at this moment, 2025-10-12 3:30 UTC) as recorded on the NSF/SAGE web site managed by "earthscope.org" (this is not well suited to viewing on a phone or small tablet so apologies if the text is too small):
Source: https://www.iris.edu/app/seismic-monitor/table
Click on the column titles at the source page to reorder the data (default is reverse timestamp order with the most recent event at the top). A second click on a column heading will reverse the order from the first click. You can also download the data in an Excel file (button at top-right of the page) for off-line perusal.
Map: https://www.iris.edu/app/seismic-monitor/map
I have been using the "iris.edu" site for most of the past two decades and they have made substantial upgrades to the available data over that time, a very useful site to bookmark if this topic interests you.
Another thing I have been watching on and off is volcanic activity and that, too, appears to have been on the rise although I did not track it anywhere near as carefully as seismic activity. It does not at first appear to be as dramatic a rise as that of earthquake activity, when comparing to past data, but I found that such may be the result of less available informational detail. There are multiple sites now, listing volcanic activity, many more than only ten years ago, so one can be spoiled for choice in the current day, but I will list only two here:
https://earthquakes.volcanodiscovery.com/
https://volcano.si.edu/reports_weekly.cfm
The earth is in tumult because the sins committed upon it have grown dramatically in the past century and, as Isaiah implied thousands of years ago, this will come to a climax and eventually crash.
Isa 24:20 KJV The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
Given that WW3 is perhaps only a couple of years away and many are calling the current conditions of conflict WW3 (although I do not subscribe to such a loose definition of world war as given by various mainstream and online sources), I do not expect to see out this decade without fulfilment of Isaiah's prophecies and the words given by the Lord. Of course, I could be completely wrong on this, that is for each one to decide for themselves, but watch the warning signs which the Lord gave us in Matthew 24. I think that you will probably agree that we are almost there.
As always, in God we trust but in mankind we do not. Lean on the Lord; He can handle it infinitely better than anyone else.
