This earthquake was located in Indonesia, a country of 17,000 islands that make up the so-called Ring of Fire around the Pacific Ocean basin where plate boundaries intersect and volcanoes regularly erupt. Although scientists cannot predict exactly when seismic events will occur, seismologists had predicted Monday's quake. In the March 17 issue of the journal Nature, researchers at the University of Ulster-Coleraine in Northern Ireland reported that stress was building in the Sumatran subduction zone as well as in the adjacent Sunda Trench. They warned that the stress was likely to be released in another seismic event. The faults are part of the Pacific "ring of fire," where continental plates grind against each other and spark periodic seismic shocks.

The Ring of Fire has been quoted in many prophesies as being the first indicator of the end times when the geologic upheaval begin to increase in frequency. Over the last century, we have seen many severe earthquakes, but the frequency in such a concise time period has increased since the 1990s. Author Nina Anderson based her novel, 2012 Airborne Prophesy, on the prophetic Ring of Fire predictions, which alerts the reader to possible human causes for the acceleration of the earth’s instability. In the book, she projects that present levels of wireless technology are rising and this frequency saturation will eventually create a harmonic disturbance that could generate an instability of the earth’s crust.

In 2012 Airborne Prophesy we are warned that the experiments with targeted ionospheric or subsurface electromagnetic frequencies disregard any conclusive evidence of safety to our planet. A man-generated unexpected earthquake last fall in Colorado shook residents and stirred controversy. New powerful ionospheric heaters are working to improve communications with submarines and to be used as subterranean radar to locate underground defense facilities. Could these frequency-based devices be unseating the continental plates and spawning the rash of earthquakes in the Pacific or are they part of our unfolding future as predicted in the end-days prophecies?