We all know about the recent earthquake in Chili, and the one in Haiti.  It seems to me there has been an increase in intense earthquake in recent years. 

It seems to me there has been many more deally earthquakes recently, so I did a little research and found this:

Chile: February 27, 2010
A magnitude 8.8 earthquake hits central Chile, about 91km north-east of the city of Concepcion and 317km south-west of the capital, Santiago.
Haiti: January 12, 2010

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake hits the capital Port-au-Prince demolishing buildings across the city, killing more than 200,000.

Sumatra, Indonesia: September 30, 2009

Magnitude 7.6 earthquake hits the city of Padang and surrounding areas, killing more than 1,100 people.

Samoan islands: September 29, 2009

A magnitude 8 to 8.3 quake hit between the islands of Samoa and American Samoa, triggering a powerful series of tsunamis.

At least 186 people are killed.

Bhutan: September 21, 2009

A magnitude 6.1 quake struck 180km east of Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan. At least 10 people were killed.

Andaman and Nicobar islands: August 10, 2009

A magnitude 7.6 quake struck in the Indian Ocean islands. No fatalities were recorded.

Japan: August 9, 2009

A magnitude 7.1 quake struck off the south coast of Honshu, Japan´s main island.

No fatalities or damage was recorded.

New Zealand: July 15, 2009

A 7.6 magnitude quake struck off the coast of New Zealand´s south island.

No fatalities or damage was recorded as it struck 150km west of the town of Invercargill.

Italy: April 6, 2009

A 6.3 magnitude quake struck the city of L´Aquila, in the mountainous Abruzzo region, east of Rome, killing at least 292 people.
Pakistan: October 29, 2008
A 6.8 magnitude quake struck 60km northeast of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, killing at least 160 people.

China: May 12, 2008

More than 70,000 people were killed in Sichuan province after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the region.

Pakistan: October 8, 2005

At least 73,000 people were killed by a 7.6 magnitude quake that struck about 95km northeast of Islamabad. The quake also rocked Indian-administered Kashmir, killing 1,244 people there.

Aceh, Indonesia: December 26, 2004

A massive 9.1 magnitude quake strikes off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, triggering a series of deadly tsunamis that sweep across the Indian Ocean.

Around 230,000 people are killed, with Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand among the worst-hit countries.

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lots of earthquakes are expected at the end of the world.

end or beginning the change has been ongoing it is just with internet and immediate news we hear about more of them .........

Earthquakes happen all the time. There are probably several happening right now at different places around the world. But they´re all small ones, and are mostly not noticed. We only know about most of them because we have electronic instruments that can detect them. Some slightly larger ones happen less often, and are noticed, though they don´t do any damage. Even less often is a large one that does some noticible shaking and some minor damage. The really big ones are least frequent. Fortunately.

The crust of the earth is made up of gigantic tectonic plates, and they are always in motion against, along or away from each other. The gradual movement of these plates releases energy, and we see these releases of energy as earthquakes. Along the plate boundaries we see what are called fault lines, and the quakes usually center on or around them.

As regards when the next "big" quake will come, we don´t know. But it is coming. Big quakes have punctuated all of recorded history, and will continue to do so. We live on a living planet. Even the earth itself is alive. It can move - and it does.

I blame sinners and infidels!

seems like you need more education to understand this is not some perceived punishment from a religous text

There´s a 100 percent chance of an earthquake today.

Earthquakes are very common occurrences on this planet. So today -- somewhere -- an earthquake will occur.

It may be so light that only sensitive instruments will perceive its motion; it may shake houses, rattle windows, and displace small objects; or it may be sufficiently strong to cause property damage, injury, and death.

It is estimated that there are 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world each year. 100,000 of those can be felt, and 100 of them cause damage.

An earthquake over 7 on the Richter scale also hit Okinawa Japan on the same day as the Chilean quake. Because (and thankfully) no-one died, it got almost no world news coverage. This reinforces the fact that earthquakes happen all the time, but not all are widely reported. Only major disasters or graphic video footage are worthy of news time on television in the minds of broadcasters.  

I dont blame anyone.

Yes Henry, I know earthquakes happen all the time. My point was there seems to be an increase in the incidence of large ( high on the richter scale) earthquakes.

I live in CA, between more than one large earthquake faults...which is to say, I am not exactly naive regarding earthquakes....I watch these activities.

The point I have brought up is the fact that large earthquakes.....very large earthquakes do not happen all the time.

I wonder if there is something we are doing that is causing the increase....drilling, testing bombs....bombing....or whatever.......If you test bombs underground, could that cause sismec activity? If you pump out layers of stuff...could that cause seismic activity?

I think there are more intense earthquakes happening recently but if you look back long enough in earth´s history, you will find that this happens in cycles.  There are periods in geological history when the earth is quiet and times when it is not.  

If the earth choses to swallow us whole, it will do so regardless of our religion or environmental sensitivities.  I don´t think we need to be stirring up rumors of the end of the world or conjuring conspiracy theories about drilling to figure this out. 

I´m not making up a conspiracy theory Elisabeth....it´s a simple fact if you pull a book from the bottom of the pile, the other books will shift positon. It happens over and over. Have you ever been to the market and seen how oranges or apples are displayed? You don´t take the one from the bottom, you take the ones on the top.  If you have a frozen item that is partly liquid, like on the bottom, and you remove part of the bottom liquid, the top has to shift....just the way things work. This has nothing to do with religion....