6.4 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Solomon Islands & Strong Cascadia Earthquakes November 9th 2026!

James Kaufman, World News Report Today. Ladies and gentlemen, if you are watching my live and I dozed off, my apologies. I woke up with a sore throat and a fever this morning, but like I told you all on the show I did before, and I just haven't been there all day. So, we're going to go ahead and do this 6.4 magnitude earthquake before we get some more rest. My apologies again. I've just been burning the candle at too many ends, obviously. So, let's take a look at the 6.5 magnitude earthquake just west-southwest of the Solomon Islands. Came in at a 6 on the DYFI, a 6 on the SHAKE map, 17 kilometers of depth. We can all agree that this is on a plate boundary near one. There are a bunch of active volcanoes. And probably part of Zalandia, the continent rising out of the ocean. That said, I wanted to throw in some honorable mentions. Got the Cascadia subduction zone over here with a 4.4 and a 3.8. Not good at all to see that. That's where the Juan de Fuco plate is subsiding into the North American plate and pushed by the Pacific plate. I never liked seeing any decent earthquake activity over there, period. All right, so taking a look at this quake down here, I think it is a corner of Icelandia rising. It's like the USGS called it out as a 6.4 magnitude earthquake, whereas Germany called it out as a 6.3, and Raspberry Shake called it out as only a 6.2 magnitude earthquake. Both Germany and Raspberry Shake are at a default depth of 10 kilometers, whereas the USGS selected 17 kilometers as the depth. It seems a mighty shallow, but it is a continent rising. We have a lot of large quakes or decent quakes going on right now. 5.4 over here, Caribbean Sea. We've got a 5.7 over here up in Japan, and over here in Zealandia, a 5.1 and a 5.2. So more than just one big quake although this surpasses you can see it's just under an active volcano and see if we can get a name for this it's going to be Ambrium Volcano in Vanitu. So that's the active volcano that's right there in the area. Probably magma movement under that volcano. Let's look at some detailed information associated with that 6.4 magnitude earthquake. But we have a very strong magnitude 6.4 earthquake, the Coral Sea here. And this is about four hours ago. I believe it to be a corner of Zlandia Rising. It's going to be November 9th there, because it's now November 9th here as well. All right, let's look at some earthquake details at 6.4, 17 kilometers of depth. Of course, the USGS, 129 seismic stations, picked this bad boy up. Again, it looks like a portion of Zlandia rising, the northwest portion. 3.8 atomic bombs of energy were released with this earthquake. Which is nothing to laugh about. Shake intensity also came in at 6. Strong shaking near the epicenter. Although it looks like no one reported it. Let's double check that, shall we? So we're looking at this 6.4 magnitude earthquake, Solomon Islands. And it's had two reports come in that someone felt it. November 9, 2026. Two reports and that's it. All right, comparing earthquake data from different reporting agencies, the USGS at that 6.4, 17 kilometers, Germany at 6.2, default depth, Raspberry Shake at 6.2, default depth, the Indonesian government came in at a 6.4, a little bit deeper, at 40 kilometers, the Europeans came in at a 6.4, 17 kilometers, so they decided to Copy what the USGS had come up with. One's calling this the Santa Cruz Islands. Probably a better call in the Solomon Island area. And we have the Italians coming in at 6'3", 32 kilometers of depth. So we have a consensus around a 6'3", 6'4", earthquake coming about 17 and 40 kilometers of depth. All right, there was no tsunami warning associated with this, but I want to check the National Data Buoy Center because this was in the ocean and, well, very shallow area here, you would think. It would have created a tsunami being a 6.4 magnitude earthquake releasing 3.9 atomic bombs worth of energy. But we see no buoys in event mode whatsoever. So, in summary, we have the 6.4 here, called out by the USGS, looks like there were some aftershocks in the area. There's a 4.8, mighty big aftershot. We also wanted to mention the 4.4 off the Oregon coast, and the 3.8, both associated with the Cascadia subduction zone. And that Juan de Fuco plate that's being pushed under the North American plate here, forcing magma to the surface of the Cascades. These are volcanoes that run all the way from, really, Canada down through to California. And the Juan de Fuco plate is subsiding under the North American plate, being pushed by the Pacific plate, which is, well, part of the mechanism that forces these volcanoes to erupt. Not a good situation to see two decent-sized quakes over there. That said, we've seen some decent-sized quakes all over the globe. There's a 5-7 following the, I guess, 6.2 that we had in Japan yesterday. And we've got several other decent-sized quakes. There's a 5.1 down south of Fiji, also part of the Tongan Rising. This was on or close to a plate tectonic boundary, also looks like it was under an active volcano as we discussed, it's probably plate movement and magma movement in this area. That said, God bless all of y'all. Please give us a thumbs up and share and well, we'll see you on the next one.