How many large earthquakes have happened this year?

Depends on what you mean as large…US Geological has a great site.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/
This page lists the biggies… dang Illinois didn’t make the list!
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/

@Cruiser Thank you! That’s the type of site I want!

One just happened today in Turkey.

@lucillelucillelucille That one made the list.

And, you need to remember that earthquakes happen on geological timescales. So there being a lot in the last 12 months is relatively insignificant geologically vs. the last decade or century or so.

One bit of info I want to compile, but I haven’t found a good dataset (I haven’t looked very hard) is the rolling total energy released by earthquakes in the world. Remember that it takes 10 6.0 earthquakes to equal a 7.0 earthquake, and 100 6.0 earthquakes to equal an 8.0…

We just had a question about this, and someone posted a link that showed how many we have had since 1900. Lemme go look…..

Eight that are 5.9 or greater.

Source

Oh… finally got around to doing that graph I mentioned above (I had a slow afternoon):

http://folio.benpeoples.com/img/v9/p591721687.png

Another one 6.9, hit in China today, April 13 2010