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... Luke 21:25
Q: Will these play a Role in the End times?
Could these, if they were to escalate adding more problems, be used to scare people into accepting more govt. control? Like the mark of the beast (one side says we need to appease an angry Father God while the other goes along to appease an angry mother earth?)
"A study published in the Geophysical Research Letters suggests that hurricanes or even just really strong storms can trigger seismic events called “stormquakes” in the nearby ocean.
Researchers from Florida State University (FSU), the University of California, San Diego and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts analyzed more than a decade of seismic and oceanographic records. They found a strong correlation between certain hurricanes that hit the U.S. and intense seismic activity in the nearby seabed.
“We’re calling them ‘stormquakes,’” said lead author Wenyuan Fan of FSU’s Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science.
According to Fan, stormquakes happen when hurricanes or nor’easters (storms along the East Coast) transfer energy into the ocean as strong ocean waves. The waves interact with the solid earth and produce seismic events as strong as a 3.5 magnitude earthquake.
When the team further examined low-frequency earthquakes, they found that stormquakes are strongly influenced by local oceanographic features and seafloor topography, such as large continental shelves and ocean banks. 
One productive hurricane was Hurricane Bill. Bill produced more than 300 stormquakes when it hit North America in August 2009. It originated from the Atlantic ocean and strengthened into a Category 4 hurricane before weakening as a Category 1 hurricane when it made landfall in New England. Upon Bill’s arrival, there were numerous seismic events off the coasts of New England and Nova Scotia, where transcontinental surface waves temporarily increased.
Hurricane Ike in 2008 also triggered seismic activity in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as Hurricane Irene in 2011 in the Little Bahama Bank off the coast of Florida.
However, the researchers noted that not all hurricanes can trigger 
stormquakes. For instance, Hurricane Sandy, one of the costliest storms on record in the United States, did not generate seismic activity. The team said that whether a hurricane or storm can produce stormquakes depends in part upon the geophysical features of an area. For example, the coastal region from New Jersey to Georgia did not show signs of a stormquake but other regions like the Gulf of Mexico in the U.S. are hotspots." ScienceNews
stormquakes. For instance, Hurricane Sandy, one of the costliest storms on record in the United States, did not generate seismic activity. The team said that whether a hurricane or storm can produce stormquakes depends in part upon the geophysical features of an area. For example, the coastal region from New Jersey to Georgia did not show signs of a stormquake but other regions like the Gulf of Mexico in the U.S. are hotspots." ScienceNews