Is this a normal amount of earthquakes for 1 week?

earthquake.usgs.gov...

According to that site, there have already been 43 earthquakes on 8/17 (today) alone.

I really know nothing about how many earthquakes generally happen during a "normal" day, but with all the recent news of earthquakes around the world, I thought I'd check into it.

Any insight would be appreciated.

Well I believe the number of earthquakes is quite normal but I think the magnitude of it all together is irregular. A 8.0 is a lot. And the aftershocks which almost all measure above 6.0 are a big number too. Also there were some other relatively large quakes (+5.0 magnitude is considerd to be large). Maybe people with some more experience could shed some light to what is average and what is not for numbers and magnitudes of earthquakes.

Juliet