Statement like this is quite normal from Jehovah's Witnesses and other doomsday prophets, and they are completely erroneous, as the figures below prove. The Watchtower does try everything to prove that there has been a considerably increase in earthquakes since the year 1914, and that this is one of the signs of the end. About three years ago I obtained a CD-ROM database from the National Earthquake Information Service and analyzed the data on quakes for the past hundred years or so. The database contained information that was current as of 1989. All these databases are, by the National Geophysical Database Center 's own statments, incomplete.
New information continues to come in, like that from the Soviet bloc.
After 1991, data from many of the Iron Curtain countries became available, and is still being incorporated into global databases. One of these was, of course, concerned with earthquakes. Here I present an extract that covers the material on this subject. There is much more data available, which I will make available on this forum and to anyone who requests it. Of course, anyone can write to the USGS and get the databases from which I got these statistics.