The Indonesian quake struck just three days after an 8.1 quake struck the ocean floor between Australia and Antarctica, causing buildings to shake hundreds of miles away but no serious damage or injury.
Quakes reaching a magnitude 8 are very rare. A quake registering magnitude 8 rocked Japan's northern island of Hokkaido on Sept. 25, 2003, injuring nearly 600 people. An 8.4 magnitude tremor that stuck off the coast of Peru on June 23, 2001, killed 74.
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things BEGIN TO COME TO PASS, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. (Luke 21:25-28)
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Sorry, this is bogus. The earthquake did not affect the earth's rotation.
But the length of the day has been getting longer since the moon was created 4.4 billion years ago. The moon's gravity causes a slight drag on the rotation through the tides and angular momentum.
The day was about 15 hours long 4.4 billion years ago to today where it is 24 hours long.
Over those 4.4 billion years, how many magnitude 9.0 earthquakes have there been? If there was one every 30 years which sounds about right and it added 3 microseconds to the day or off the day, the day would be well over 1,000 hours long or there would be no day.
I hate junk science.
Are Earthquakes Increasing?
There are several web pages which claim there is an increase in the number of earthquakes. Both secular and religious seers regard earthquakes to be a sign that civilization faces an impending cataclysm. E.g. In an article, "Signs of the End of the Age", at prophecyandcurrentevents.com/, they give stats from J. R. Church and Gary Stearman, editors of the magazine Prophecy in the News, which claimed that the number of Richter magnitude 6.0 and greater earthquakes worldwide has been increasing from nine in the 1950s to over 100 in the 90's. Stearman cites as his source the October 11, 1995 issue of the newspaper Philadelphia Inquirer.
The computer-searchable archives of the Philadelphia Inquirer reveal no article. When Stearman's readers confronted him with much more earthquake data than in the Philadelphia Inquirer, he was compelled to revise significantly these numbers. However, Stearman still insists that earthquakes are increasing. (See The Institute for Creation Research article "Earthquakes and Endtimes" at www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-295.htm)
The graph at the top of the page shows a 30 year cycle for "major" (magnitude 7.0 to 7.9) and "great" (magnitude 8.0 and higher) earthquakes, but the long term trend is flat. The number of strong (magnitude 6.0-6.9) quakes recorded increased over the 20th centuury, but many events smaller than magnitude 6.5 were not reported or properly measured for the early part of the century.