6.4 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes January 7th 2026!

James Kaufman, World News Report Today. Ladies and gentlemen, the USGS is reporting a magnitude 6.4 earthquake just offshore near the Philippines. Now, this originally came in as a 6.7 magnitude earthquake. There was an associated tsunami warning with this earthquake. Numerous aftershocks. This came in as a 5 on the DYFI, a 6 on the Shake Map. and the USGS is nailing it at about 35 kilometers of depth now remember the USGS doesn't cover quakes over 4.0 that are out of the country but as you can see we've had numerous aftershocks larger than 4.0 including this 5.5 all near this plate tectonic boundary the main quake really was not near a plate tectonic boundary this in fact is a well a inactive volcano not dormant but inactive and i will show you that in just a moment there are no active or awakening volcanoes anywhere in the area now if it looks like there's a bunch of earthquakes on the map it's because there are remember we're in a simultaneous superior conjunction with mars and venus opposite it the moon earth and jupiter behind us all lined up with our sun i wanted to point out the west coast and how active it is incredibly active it looks like the biggest quake over there is a 3.7 we have one decent sized quake here in yellowstone oh they're calling it a negative 0.3 earthquake right at 1.1 kilometers and we have two here in the new madrid a very dangerous situation there although they're very small and fairly shallow earthquakes over to volcanoes and earthquakes.com you can see the mess we have down here uh see if we can pull there's a 4.3 there on the aftershocks see if we can pull that 6.4 looks like USGS can be the main source again this is volcanoes and earthquakes.com uh 35 kilometers of depth as we discussed we have two other sources here we have Raspberry Shake that came in at a 6.2 magnitude earthquake a default depth of 10 kilometers and the indonesian government that came in at 6.3 magnitude earthquake at 77 kilometers now we're going to get some detailed information on this earthquake but before we do let's take a look at all the aftershocks all right this quake just offsets this plate tectonic boundary so a lot of plates that don't correct properly here you can see the problems in blue and black throughout this area and a lot of small plates and plates that are just not connected at all as you can see here again right offshore and well there's been a ton of aftershocks but i'm going to go ahead and show y'all that there is a volcano right next to this area but although still considered active i.e it has gone off the last 10,000 years. It is not currently in unrest or showing any type of activity whatsoever. I'm going to put all of them on so you can see that there's been so many aftershocks that it'd be impossible to determine how many there were. Again, this is the Philippines here, and this is a lot of shaking going on. Over to VolcanoDiscovery.com, we see it was a very strong magnitude 6.4 earthquake and this occurred on january 7th today and well get some more information below this 35 kilometers of depth about 22 miles as i said when the quake originally came in it came in at magnitude 6.7 as seen here same quake and they had it 10 kilometers of depth the default depth all right earthquake details of 6.4 35 kilometers of depth main reporting source USGS 3.8 atomic bombs worth of energy released with this so it was nothing to play around with especially considering all the aftershocks are associated with it i did look for some video that had been released maybe on Twitter and no one has released any video of this particular quake or any of the aftershocks here is the final shake map here you can see reports coming all the way from this far away really all the way from way up here of people that felt the quake pretty unbelievable uh they got it at 6.4 after downgrading it from a 6.7 wow what a downgrade that was right comparing quake data from different reporting agencies first off we have the USGS at 6.4 35 kilometers followed by Germany at 6.5 25 kilometers of depth RaspberryShake a 6.2 default depth 10 kilometers the asterisk of depth given as 10 kilometers often means the depth of the quake cannot be determined with sufficient accuracy at least by RaspberryShake the Indonesians came in at a 6.3 77 kilometers of depth we have the Europeans coming in at 6.4 53 kilometers of depth we have the French coming in at 6.32 which makes me think this was much stronger plus or minus 0.17 so again which makes me think that this was much stronger period the French are also at a default depth of 10 kilometers the Incorporated Research Institute for seismology came in at 64.35 kilometers i I think they follow the USGS. And Australia came in at 64, at 64 kilometers, twice as deep. So the Australians are always a great source in this area. Now, we did have an associated tsunami warning with this quake. And these are the Philippines through here. We have no buoys whatsoever in event mode. This is the National Data Buoy Center operated by NOAA. So, in summary, it looks like the simultaneous superior conjunction with Venus, Mars, our moon, Earth, and Jupiter actually did cause an uptick in seismic activity. I will look into any volcanic activity that's new after this, and it looks like it hit pretty hard around the globe. the big story of the day of course is going to be the 6.4 originally a 6.7 and all the aftershocks in that area and quickly mention the quake we had in Yellowstone the two we had on the New Madrid and how well busy the west coast of the United States has in fact been that said god bless each and every one of you guys please give us a thumbs up please subscribe if you haven't and always remember that anything's possible, Bizarro World.