With the increase in quakes, my buddies over at Nasa are saying that we have shifted axis north to south by 33 feet
No, he's saying he did some calculations and guesses that might be the result. Nobody's measured it yet.
(I'm skeptical - planets are very big and massive things, and earthquakes are very small things that make very little net difference, so much so that 1 in 10^6 feels too big)
They have been saying by 2012 that there could be a magnetic shift from North to South (flipped). I know a lot of us rely on compasses which tends to wonder about what is needed to stay on top of Geo shifting trends that affect the magnetic polarity of the planet, or is it just a lot of ranting trying to get everyone worked up over nothing.
The magnetic poles do shift, but almost certainly very slowly, over hundreds to thousands of years, perhaps longer. It's possible, though unlikely, that a slow transition has already begun.
The problem isn't "on the other side" where the poles are flipped but rather in the middle of a transition when the magnetic field field will be weak and might temporarily sprout several "poles" in odd places. We don't really know since it's never happened in historic times for us to see.
But the emphasis is that this is almost certainly slow on a human time scale. At worst I think you might need to carry around a cheat-sheet on how to interpret your compass based on your location, and update that every decade or so. If a "magnetic pole" appears in your neighborhood then a compass is useless there temporarily.