No, you get a magnitude 5 earthquake somewhere on the Earth every day or two and magnitude 4 or less several times a day. Magnitude 6 to 8 are more rare. But we’ve had those every year as well. The year with most magnitude 8 or 9 earthquakes in the last decade is 2007 with four of them. The year with most magnitude 7 is 2011 with 19.

So it’s nothing new. Just that we are much more interconnected, many of us may know people in regions prone to earthquakes which was rarely true before, and they hit the news more too.

Figures here List of earthquakes in 2015