XEarth (for Windows)

For just the first time in my experience all ten current earthquakes are in the same place - Chile!
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/27/chile.quake/index.html

Xearth for Windows is a port of Kirk Johnson's original xearth [local mirror] program to Microsoft Windows. Xearth renders a shaded image of the earth on your desktop, as seen from your favorite vantage point in space. By default, the image is updated every five minutes according to the current position of the sun.

Xearth for Windows works with any 32-bit version of Windows, including 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, and XP. On Windows XP, I have been told that you need to uncheck "lock desktop" in order to see the earth display.

http://hewgill.com/xearth/