Has anyone noticed these influx of earthquakes, etc? Media ploy or an actual sign of more trouble to come?

Yep, I was one of those people that sat around watching those history channel documentaries about Nostradamus and the end of the world. I got to thinking that… hm, there has been a lot of earthquakes, floods and other things reported more. Is there really more of these things going on OR are they just being reported more in order to perpetuate the 2012 theories?