By the way, 見立てる often means likening.
Then, earthquake-swarms and cluster-aches are likened to some kinds of group-violent event under the self-similarity such as a mandala, a fractal pattern.
Accordingly, a metaphor by『Babylon Tokyo』(written by Hiroshi.Aramata) was more realistic than we imagine in some meaning.
But, actually, insidious psychological attacks called gang-stalking or organized stalking and technological harassments including electronic harassments, inner sounds(≒ sounds & voices transmitted into individual brain) and damages through microwaves, ELF( Extremely Low Frequency ), compressional waves(≒ longitudinal waves), etc are far serious for us.
※ swarm ≒ spawn
The spawn-star(羅目侯星) in the eastern astrology is one of the signs to in-form us swarmed misfortunes such as disasters, sudden changes and convulsions.