From jw org; 2023 - A year of anxiety:
“Since the beginning of 2023, there have now been 13 earthquakes above magnitude 7 worldwide, one of the highest values since records began.”
www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk cites 3 reasons it may seem that earthquakes are increasing in intensity and number.
1. More population growth = more people affected.
2. Clustered statistics. Several may happen in one year and then nothing - or fewer in between. People understandably have a tendency to notice the really bad years.
3. Global communications and a larger number of higher quality seismic monitors deployed than ever before.
Its interesting that they selectively use only a portion of the data to suport their claim (only earthquakes magnitude 7 or higher), and dont mention the tens of thousands of smaller earthquakes that occured in 2023 that are about the average number historically.
I dont remember reading in the gospels that the earthquakes had to be a certain magnitude to count.