There hasn't been more earthquakes recently.

Just because there are more earthquakes being reported in the news doesn't mean there have been more earthquakes.

That's a good life lesson to learn. You shouldn't judge the world by the amount of attention certain events get in the news. News disproportionally report bad and shocking news, so you get the wrong idea that there's nothing but bad things happening in the world if you only go by the news headlines.

Earthquakes happen all the time in certain earthquake-prone areas of the world. There's nothing special about "recently", other than the fact that recently it happened to hit a highly populated area that was ill-prepared to handle that kind of an earthquake, so it became massive world news.