Earthquakes

This text is about the recent quakes off the coast of Indonesia with magnitudes 8.6 and 8,3 richter,and the Tsunami alarm that was called off. This quake caused panic and people fled for high ground in Indonesia, Thailand,and Sri Lanka  but so far there was no report on casualties.

I think that since the last earthquake in this same region, in 2004, people are much better prepared to face this kind of catastrophy, also there has been a constant monitoring of this area by the American Pacific quake warning, which worked pretty well this time .
This quake as well, did not have the same effect as the last one, the reason for this was that the friction of the plaque was parallel and not though subduction, which is the entering of a continental Plaque under another one,and parallel friction does not cause an upward and downward movement but horizontal ,and this kind of movements are not that catastrophical . This deminishes the posibilities of Tsunamis too because the horizontal moving does not cause tidal waves.
 In the last few years there has been a increase in the frequency and magnitude of earhquakes , there are no serious cientific studies why this is occuring so this has led to different hiphothesis and parallel studies on this phenomena.Some of this alternative studies argue that earth is going though a pole shift that happens every 26000 years and earth`s axis is shifting causing this frequents earthquakes worlwide, as well as climate changes and sudden massive death of animals that we have seen in the media.
 A lot of people relate this with the Mayan prophesies of 2012 , that states that big changes in all areas, social and physical are going to take place before a new world is born; more subtle , just and spiritual .