Earthquakes this Year

[Dodgerchick]

What is up with all these earthquakes? I don't remember so many earthquakes in such a short amount of time. Here's a list of "Major Earthquakes" this year, if I counted right, there have been 26 so far... yikes! From 2010 Significant Earthquake and News Headlines Archive (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2010/) :

Magnitude 6.9 SOUTHERN QINGHAI, CHINA April 13, 2010
Magnitude 6.3 SPAIN April 11, 2010
Magnitude 6.8 SOLOMON ISLANDS April 11, 2010
Magnitude 7.7 NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA April 06, 2010
Magnitude 7.2 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO April 04, 2010
Magnitude 4.4 GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA March 16, 2010
Magnitude 6.7 OFFSHORE BIO-BIO, CHILE March 16, 2010
Magnitude 6.5 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN March 14, 2010
Magnitude 6.9 LIBERTADOR O HIGGINS, CHILE March 11, 2010
Magnitude 6.1 EASTERN TURKEY March 08, 2010
Magnitude 6.8 SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA March 05, 2010
Magnitude 6.6 OFFSHORE BIO-BIO, CHILE March 05, 2010
Magnitude 8.8 OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE February 27, 2010
Magnitude 7.0 RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN February 26, 2010
Magnitude 6.9 CHINA-RUSSIA-NORTH KOREA BORDER REGION February 18, 2010
Magnitude 3.8 ILLINOIS February 10, 2010
Magnitude 5.9 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA February 04, 2010
Magnitude 6.2 BOUGAINVILLE REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA February 01, 2010
Magnitude 5.9 HAITI REGION January 20, 2010
Magnitude 4.0 OKLAHOMA January 15, 2010
Magnitude 7.0 HAITI REGION January 12, 2010
Magnitude 6.5 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA January 10, 2010
Magnitude 4.1 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA January 07, 2010
Magnitude 6.8 SOLOMON ISLANDS January 05, 2010
Magnitude 7.1 SOLOMON ISLANDS January 03, 2010
Magnitude 6.6 SOLOMON ISLANDS January 03, 2010

These are here in the U.S.:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/index.gif

[Pumpy Tudors]

I swear I had nothing to do with any of them.

[SirFozzie]

Nothing new:

Quake frequency normal, scientists say - CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/science/04/07/earthquake.frequency/)

[panerd]

HAARP. :)

[JediKooter]

Looks like about an average year so far.

[CU Tiger]

Its the media darling though...the other year it was hurricanes, before that it was shark attacks...locusts are next

[Buccaneer]

Lorena, as Foz posted, nothing more than usual. It's just the ever-increasing modes and pervasiveness of media communications (in knowing everything that's going on everywhere every single second) that creates the perception without perspective.