6.9 Magnitude Earthquake & The Truth About Mt. St. Helens Activity October 16th 2026!

James Kaufman, World News Report today. Ladies and gentlemen, we've had a 6.9 magnitude earthquake on the Russian peninsula. They have six active volcanoes on that peninsula. This is also just offsetting a plate tectonic boundary here. And so there's a lot going on in this area, as we will see. Again, it came in as 6.9, 76 kilometers northeast of Ozernovsky, Russia, a DYFI of 5, meaning there's not a big population in the area, a shake map of 6, and there was no associated tsunami warning. I think the depth's around 135 kilometers. Now, it looks like Mount St. Helens is also trying to wake up, and we'll take a look at that. as well. All right, we're only looking at the 5.0 and larger earthquakes, and here's our 6.9. You can see the 1, 2, and there might be more than I thought, 3, 4, 5, 6 for sure, and there could be 7 on this Russian peninsula just north of Japan here. This is the Pacific North American Plate boundary, believe it or not. The Euro-Asia plate boundary is actually over here, and for some reason, the plate boundary is not working on the map, but I'll show them to you. I won't put everything on, show you what's going on. It's a very busy day around the globe, but let's get some detailed information about this 6.9 magnitude earthquake, which is a big one, and this is USGS information of course they have it uh as a 6.9, 135 kilometers of depth we also have Raspberry Shake coming in at 6.9, 135 kilometers of depth and well the russians coming in at 6.7 at 144 kilometers of depth let's go get some detailed information about this quake and see how large it is and then we'll take a look at GOES satellite pointing at St. Helens and some of the neighboring volcanoes. Ladies and gentlemen, it looks like they might be waking up. All right, we have a very strong magnitude 6.9 earthquake right there on the Russian Peninsula. There are at least six active volcanoes. We will zoom in and see if there's seven. And let's get some actual information. There are actually eight erupting right there on that peninsula. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Wow. And that's right there where the magma movement's going on. Incredible. This is basically a subduction area. And so is this. Your Pacific plate is pushing under the European plate here and under the North American plate here. So you have two subduction zones right here coming together. This actually goes all the way to Hawaii. these uh sea mounds which are underwater volcanoes all right this shake map says 6.7 usgs is calling out a 6.9 so we're going to see if there's a later and greater version of this let's take a look all right here we have a 6.9 again usgs 188 seismic stations caught this only 22 people reported it 21.1 atomic bombs worth of energy wow folks wow and we do have a later and greater uh well shake map here here we have the reports it looks like we have 35 reports you can see that there's some people living on the coast down here and then these cities up here It reported it as kind of a middle-of-the-road earthquake, although it was very strong, 21.1 atomic bombs worth of energy, and eight active volcanoes right in the vicinity. No place I want to live, but there you go. This is an upgrade from a 6.7 to a 6.9. All right, let's compare earthquake data from different reporting agencies, starting with the USGS, a 6.9. At 135 kilometers of depth, followed by the French at 6.51, 133 kilometers of depth, followed by the Germans at 6.9 as well, 128 kilometers of depth. Raspberry Shake is in there at 6.9 as well, 125 kilometers of depth. Australia in at 6.8, 113 kilometers of depth. The, well, Russian government in there at 6.7, 144 kilometers of depth. The Italians in there at 6.8, 142 kilometers of depth. Europeans in there at 6.9, 134 kilometers of depth. All right, this is a very active area because of the subduction and because of the plate tectonic boundary and because of the eight volcanoes. We've actually had one of the very strongest earthquakes ever recorded in history, not too far from the quake we had today. It's a 9.0. A 9.0. 1952. The top scales up there in the top five for sure. So this is a very active area. Now everyone's claiming that this is St. Helens perhaps. One of these two here. And I am not feeling it like everyone else is. I saw several YouTube channels call out and we did have the USGS fly over this area several times today, which would lead you to believe that they thought something was going on. But when you take a look at this boundary here, St. Helens is going to be more in this area over here, the Rainier is going to be up here, and Adams is going to be over the right. So these two just don't line up, and of course I will show you what I mean. Remember of this river here is the boundary between Washington and Oregon and I don't want to call anyone a liar I'm just telling you that they were wrong that's it all right everything in green has erupted the last 10,000 years everything in black within the last 15,000 years and Mount St. Helens is right here but West Crater Volcano is just south of that but please notice that the river goes down right here and that's the actual state boundary here and i'm going to show you all again the GOES map uh they're looking at this area and there are no volcanoes in that area i'm thinking they're looking at small fires that just started uh although the planes did fly over uh mount st helens and there was a very small quake there like there is every day that's going to be mount Rainier that's going to be Mount Adams I know my geology real well that's Hood and I really didn't know much about West Crater there's Glacier Peak and Indian Heaven Volcano but again I want you to see where the river dives here and where Mount St. Helens is and where these West Crater and Indian Heaven are going to be quite a distance away from the dive and we're going to go back to goes and take a look at the smoke, I believe what we're looking at are two small fires. I hate to always make everyone look dumb, but that's what I'm here for. You can see the two small fires that started here. Mount St. Helens would be right about here. This is Gos geocolor and this is the smoke that they're referring to. If they would just know the geology a little bit better, you can see the dive here and Mount st helens would be in this area here and the other active volcanoes would be here there are no volcanoes that have even popped off in 15 000 years over here again i'm believing those are two small fires that started although there were several usgs poseidon flyovers today i wanted to show you all that they were wrong so no one uh well no one believed them if you will you can clearly see the location of what they say are awakening Mount St Helens they've been other YouTubers not me and the actual location based on the state border and the river period now that you know james is always right right uh please give us a thumbs up and share god bless you all and we'll be with you soon