Very Strong 6.6 Earthquake Strikes Indonesia January 10th 2026!

James Kaufman, World News Report, today. Ladies and gentlemen, we're having a very active day. Earthquakes all around the globe. What we're seeing as far as the biggest quake of the day is this 6.4. It originally came in much stronger, at least a 6.6. It's been downgraded by the USGS. So over in Indonesia, it had an associated tsunami warning with it. It came in as a 4 on the DYFI, a 6 on the Shake Map, 31 kilometers of depth i want to say there's been two new Madrid quakes as well today uh in this hazard over here there's two more quakes the u.s is just covered with quakes right now we'll go over that in just a bit and we're having another swarm we have nine large quakes up here where we have seven active volcanoes up off the tip or peninsula of russia here but again the story of day the 6.4 magnitude earthquake in indonesia not directly on a plate boundary and not directly under a volcano but close to both jumping over to volcanoes and earthquakes.com we see a lot of the globe is lit up over here in the aegean sea we have a huge swarm going on a lot of volcanoes awakening a big 5.1 quake here and around indonesia there's nothing but earthquakes the biggest one being what we're after today the 6.6 we also have that swarm there might have been nine large quakes but there's well about 50 small quakes as well and that is occurring on a plate tectonic boundary and is occurring just under these active volcanoes and we'll bring this up to a five so you can see here lots of active volcanoes there four that i can see there's an orange one hidden right here or that i can see right there on that russian peninsula we'll get down here this is a swarm as well as y'all saw i'll go back and show y'all that swarm really all of indonesia's swarm we're going to go ahead and zoom in five five five six Zealandia here five five over here i'm gonna zoom in to the six six here the other quake is a five one i believe all right a five oh excuse me all right this is not directly on a plate tectonic boundary it is very close to these volcanic ranges here but not under any active volcanoes and really any volcanoes that have been active over the last 10 and 15 000 years it's right there by itself there is a swarm there you can see now i don't know exactly how many quakes have gone off But we're only worried about the big one, the 6.0. And what do we have? Well, we have a 6.6 magnitude earthquake. And that's reported by the Indonesian government. Depth, 31 kilometers. We have the International Research Institute on Seismology coming in at 6.4. French came in at 6.1. Default depth of 10 kilometers. and well the international institute of seismology matched that 31 kilometers that the indonesian government came in with we will get some detailed information on the this one big quake here all right a very strong magnitude 6.6 earthquake also being reported as a 6.6 on volcanodiscovery.com so we might go with a 6.6 that's just going to depend on well how the different agencies go with this and this originally three hours ago came in as a 6.8 magnitude not a 6.4 and not a 6.6 Notice up here same quake the initial readings a 6.8 magnitude quake we'll have to at least go the 6.6 now after seeing how hard it's been downgraded earthquake details at 6.6 main reporting agency the Indonesian government only 19 reports this was in the middle of nowhere in the ocean we will check the buoys in the area and it was at 31 kilometers of depth everyone seems to agree on that it released 7.5 atomic bombs worth of energy wow here is the downgraded map you can see how few reports we have 18 reports it's the most recent map here a 6.6 it's going to be hard to call it a 6.4 with the USGS coming in at a 6.4 you can see that already since it came in originally as a 6.8. Comparing quake data from different reporting agencies, the Indonesian government, a 6.6, 31 kilometers. Germany, a 6.4, 25 kilometers. The Incorporated Research Institute for Seismology, a 6.4, 31 kilometers. USGS, 6.4, 31 kilometers. The French, a 6.18, plus or minus 0.15. so it could be a 6.3 and they came in at default depth of 10 kilometers we've got Australia coming in at a 6.6 with the default depth of 10 kilometers and we have the Philippines coming in at 6.4 at 57 kilometers 35 miles deep we have the Italians coming in at 6.4 59 kilometers of depth And finally, the Europeans coming in at 6-5. So I think 6-6 is, well, generally okay to go with here. Supposedly, there's only been four aftershocks, although that's when this story went to print. There's been numerous more since then. Headed over to the National Data Buoy Center. There was an associated tsunami warning, but we see no buoys in event mode whatsoever anywhere around Indonesia. so no tsunami was created so actually no buoys in event mode anywhere on the globe as we speak so based on the uptick we see in earthquake activity today and what we've seen in volcanic activity over the last couple days the simultaneous superior conjunction really had some effect here on Earth as far as an uptick seen on both of those. We haven't seen a lot of solar activity, although NOAA has warned that we have two CMEs that will strike this evening. They'll do that next. Main story of the day, USGS is calling it a 6-4, came in at a 6-8, been downgraded to a 6-6 by most everybody. We'll go with a 6-6. Associated tsunami warning, 31 kilometers of depth. And the U.S., well, that's a whole hour to talk about. We'll hit that tonight along with this swarm on the Russian Peninsula under the four or five active volcanoes and the swarm over the Aegean Sea, which is just off the hook as well. God bless, folks. Please give us a thumbs up. Please share and always remember, anything's possible in the Bizarro World.