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What scares me is how it's been mostly the western Pacific Rim (Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia) getting quakes. That tells me that things might be getting a little unstable on the eastern Pacific Rim, assuming the Earth keeps things "balanced".

Chile did get a huge one a while ago, no?

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Well, an earthquake relives stress along a fault. It's not like there's some feedback effect where the shocks before, during, and after a quake cause further instability on the other side of the planet just because they share a tectonic plate.

New Zealand has also had three large quakes on the bottom of the Pacific ring recently

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