Foundations of Geopolitics is a great read . Everything is going according to plan <| sep |> I don ' t know where you live but I am in New Zealand and there has definitely been an increase here . As a kid I only remember two or three small ones with hardly any damage . In the last five years we have had some pretty big ones that have taken lives , messed up whole towns , cut off whole community ' s , cut off main roads and completely destroyed train tracks making transporting goods difficult . The number of earthquakes we would have had in the last five years would be well over twenty thousand . The last big one we had was less than two weeks ago and they just opened a road to the worst area today and that was four wheel drive vehicles only that were escorted by the army and it was limited to eighty vehicles . The seabed also rose four meters in one area and is now out of the ocean . I ' m not saying it ' s the end of the world but there is more earthquake activity here for sure . After this last one there wes an earthquake every minute for days , most people in affected areas can pick the magnitude when they happen and don ' t even stop what they are doing for anything less than a six .