Since last week, the US state has been rocked by a whopping 134 quakes, including a 3.4-magnitude tremor along the seismically-active San Andreas fault.
It has sparked fears the “Big One” is one the way – a devastating earthquake that would rock the entire west coast of the United States.
The swarm has also led to speculation the “earthquakes are a portal for a God-sent destructive force to come into the world before the Messiah, striking out indiscriminately at both good and evil.”
Breaking News Israel, which offers a Biblical perspective on the latest news, claimed: “Such calamitous earthquakes and volcanoes raise religious awareness as they are explicitly mentioned in prophecy as part of the end-of-days.”
Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman, the director of the Ohr Chadash Torah Institute, told the website: “Hashem (God) has a reason for everything but it would be somewhat arrogant to claim we know definitively a reason for disasters.
“We are not in the position to know the true causes but we should try to understand these natural phenomenon as a wake-up call.
“Hashem is one, and everything is from Him, so everything is interconnected.
“According to Jewish tradition, man and his actions are connected even to earthquakes, in ways truly beyond our comprehension.”
Rabbi Trugman explained it would be hard to “justify” God’s part in indiscriminately killing lots of people, but that it is necessary.
“It is hard to justify God’s part in natural disasters when thousands of people die, good and bad together,” he said. “Where is the individual’s relationship with God?”
He went on: “When immorality spreads out of control, God gives permission to the ‘destroyer’ and he takes the innocent with the guilty, the good with the bad.
“The implications of this is that there are certain forces in the world that once a certain tipping point is arrived at, the good are taken with the bad and there is nothing that can be done about it.
“At one point, the earth will be ‘tamed’ and as physical and spiritual reality merges and becomes increasingly clarified there will be no more natural disasters.”
His warning comes as scientists predicted huge earthquake swarms could hit the planet next year.
Experts think changes in the speed of the Earth’s rotation could spark powerful tremors worldwide that would be devastating.
