You can get "rebound" earthquakes: Post-Glacial Rebound. But that requires Ice Ages and warm periods between, and anthropogenic warming is, by most accounts, recent in geologic terms.

The problem with "active year" reporting is that earthquakes have nothing to do with the annual calendar. It makes sense to think of hurricanes that way because of seasonal heating, but not earthquakes. At high energies earthquakes become rare enough that no meaningful statistics can be gathered over a single year.

About the only preparedness angle I can think of: you don't need better quake preparations this year than you should have had last year, and that isn't going to change in the (geologic) near future.