Earth Changes · Daily Report · November 10, 2026, 6:30 AM CST
The National Weather Service has 58 severe or extreme alerts in effect, led by 2 blizzard warnings across AK.[1]
Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Pena is churning in the central Pacific with top winds near 40 mph and a central pressure of 1004 millibars, moving west at 14 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center.[2]
Elsewhere, a magnitude 5.4 earthquake struck Pulau Tanimbar, Indonesia at 1:53 a.m. UTC on Nov. 10, about 10 km (≈6 miles) below the surface, the U.S. Geological Survey reports[3]. The USGS PAGER system rates the expected impact GREEN. It was one of 14 quakes of magnitude 4.5 or greater in the past day.
Today at a Glance
- 14 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or greater, the largest M5.4
- 1 active tropical system: Tropical Storm Pena
- 58 severe or extreme U.S. weather alerts
- 3 U.S. volcanoes above normal, including Great Sitkin
- 2 sinkhole reports in the news
Where It’s Happening
Numbered pins match the list under the map. Storm and quake pins are the agencies' reported centers; sinkhole pins mark the town named in the report. Map data: OpenStreetMap contributors.
1. Extreme Weather
Tropical storms and hurricanes
- Tropical Storm Pena (central Pacific): top winds near 40 mph, moving west at 14 mph. Latest advisory.[2]
Across the United States, the National Weather Service has 58 alerts rated severe or extreme in effect.[1]
| Alert | Number | States |
|---|---|---|
| Blizzard Warning | 2 | AK |
| Heavy Freezing Spray Warning | 26 | PK |
| Storm Warning | 16 | PK |
| Flood Warning | 11 | AZ, FL, TX |
| High Wind Warning | 2 | AK |
| Flood Watch | 1 | WA |
Blizzard Warning issued November 10 at 12:06AM AKST until November 10 at 12:00PM AKST by NWS Anchorage AK (Thompson Pass): “* WHAT…Blizzard conditions likely. Total snow accumulations between 8 and 16 inches.”
Blizzard Warning issued November 9 at 7:33PM AKST until November 11 at 6:00AM AKST by NWS Fairbanks AK (Central Beaufort Sea Coast; Eastern Beaufort Sea Coast): “* WHAT…Blizzard conditions expected. Total snow accumulations up to 4 inches.”
The Storm Prediction Center says no severe thunderstorm areas are forecast today.[4]
2. Earthquakes
The USGS recorded 14 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or greater in the past 24 hours.[5] The strongest:
| Mag. | Where | When | Depth | PAGER |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.4 | Pulau Tanimbar, Indonesia | Nov. 10, 1:53 a.m. UTC | 10 km | GREEN |
| 5.2 | 19 km WSW of Lata, Solomon Islands | Nov. 10, 3:37 a.m. UTC | 10 km | — |
| 5.0 | 58 km NE of Fef, Indonesia | Nov. 10, 8:34 a.m. UTC | 35 km | — |
| 4.9 | 78 km ESE of Hitachi, Japan | Nov. 10, 5:20 a.m. UTC | 35 km | — |
| 4.9 | north of Franz Josef Land | Nov. 10, 2:00 a.m. UTC | 10 km | — |
| 4.9 | south of the Fiji Islands | Nov. 9, 11:45 p.m. UTC | 176 km | — |
| 4.9 | Mid-Indian Ridge | Nov. 9, 3:04 p.m. UTC | 10 km | — |
| 4.8 | northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge | Nov. 10, 6:43 a.m. UTC | 10 km | — |
PAGER is the USGS estimate of likely deaths and damage: GREEN means little or none expected, RED means extensive. A dash means none was issued.
3. Volcanoes
In the United States, 3 volcanoes are above normal background activity, according to the U.S. Geological Survey’s observatories:
| Volcano | Alert / aviation code | Latest word from scientists |
|---|---|---|
| Great Sitkin | Watch / Orange | Slow eruption of lava likely continues; moving to Weekly Updates only[6] |
| Ahyi Seamount | Advisory / Yellow | No signs of unrest in satellite data; no significant geophysical signals.[7] |
| Kilauea | Advisory / Yellow | The Halema'uma'u eruption of Kīlauea is currently paused after episode 56 fountaining ended on November 5. The summit is reinflating and the next episode of lava fountaining is likely more than a week away.[8] |
Alert levels run Normal, Advisory, Watch, Warning. Aviation codes run Green, Yellow, Orange, Red.
4. Sinkholes
No government agency publishes a live national sinkhole feed, so these come from today’s local news:
- Granite City, Illinois: KMOV reports, “Granite City officials respond to Iowa Street sinkhole after Facebook post An 11-year-old found a hole at the edge of the road Saturday; no active water main leak was found GRANITE CITY, Ill.”[9]
- Cape Town Ward 96, South Africa: Cape Town ETC reports, “Every few days, a huge sinkhole on the doorstep of Vuyiseka Khethani’s home in Wetland informal settlement in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, fills with sewage.”[10]
Also in the News
Other natural-hazard video from the past day, from news organizations:
Video: Al Jazeera English, November 10, 2026 — “Reaching isolated communities displaced by Nepal’s floods | 101 East #shorts”. Also in the news. Picked because its title names a natural hazard; it may not be covered in the data above.
Video: AccuWeather, November 10, 2026 — “3 Major Storms Will Bring Heavy Snow & Rain to Pacific Northwest”. Also in the news.
5. What the Experts Say
These are the words of the scientists and forecasters who watch these hazards for a living, quoted exactly.
“Satellite imagery indicates that the convective structure associated with Pena has changed little over the past several hours. Deep convection has remained mostly confined to the northeastern and eastern portions of the circulation, due to moderate south-southwesterly vertical wind shear. A recent scatterometer pass showed a somewhat elongated low-level circulation and a highly asymmetric wind field, with the strongest winds located in the northeastern quadrant. The latest subjective and objective intensity estimates remain in the 30 to 45 kt range. Given these estimates and the relatively steady satellite presentation, the initial intensity is held at 35 kt.”
— Forecaster Gibbs, National Hurricane Center, on Tropical Storm Pena[11]
“Severe thunderstorms are not expected Tuesday through Tuesday night.”
— Forecaster Mead, NOAA Storm Prediction Center[4]
“The Australia-Pacific plate boundary is over 4000 km long on the northern margin, from the Sunda (Java) trench in the west to the Solomon Islands in the east. The eastern section is over 2300 km long, extending west from northeast of the Australian continent and the Coral Sea until it intersects the east coast of Papua New Guinea. The boundary is dominated by the general northward subduction of the Australia plate.”
— U.S. Geological Survey, “Seismotectonics of the New Guinea Region and Vicinity,” on the region around the M5.4 quake[12]
“Lava likely continues to erupt slowly within the summit crater of Great Sitkin Volcano. A few small earthquakes were detected at the volcano over the last day. Satellite and webcam images were cloudy.”
— Alaska Volcano Observatory, on Great Sitkin[6]
“Clear satellite images over the last week did not show any sign of underwater plumes from Ahyi Seamount. No notable activity was detected in distal geophysical monitoring data.”
— Northern Mariana Islands, on Ahyi Seamount[7]
“Sinkholes are common where the rock below the land surface is limestone, carbonate rock, salt beds, or other rocks that can naturally be dissolved by groundwater circulating through them. As the rock dissolves, spaces and caverns develop underground. Sinkholes are dramatic because the land usually stays intact for a while until the underground spaces just get too big.”
— U.S. Geological Survey Water Science School, on why sinkholes form[13]
How to Prepare
- Keep a basic kit: water (one gallon per person per day for several days), food, a battery or hand-crank radio, a whistle, a dust mask and phone chargers.[14]
- Get alerts: Wireless Emergency Alerts need no sign-up; the FEMA app, NOAA Weather Radio, the USGS Earthquake Notification Service and the USGS Volcano Notification Service are free.
- Floods: Turn Around, Don’t Drown. Six inches of moving water can knock you down, and one foot can sweep a car away.[15]
- Earthquakes: Drop, Cover and Hold On.[16]
- Download the checklist: Be Ready: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Extreme Weather and Sinkholes (PDF), with today’s active hazards first.
How to Verify This Yourself
- Earthquakes: USGS Latest Earthquakes map
- U.S. volcanoes: USGS Volcano Hazards Program; world: Smithsonian weekly report
- Weather alerts: weather.gov/alerts; tropics: nhc.noaa.gov
- Worldwide disasters: gdacs.org
References
- National Weather Service, active alerts API api.weather.gov. ↩
- National Hurricane Center, active storms data nhc.noaa.gov. ↩
- USGS, M5.4 Pulau Tanimbar, Indonesia event page earthquake.usgs.gov. ↩
- NOAA Storm Prediction Center, Day 1 Convective Outlook spc.noaa.gov. ↩
- USGS, M4.5+ earthquakes, past day (real-time feed) earthquake.usgs.gov. ↩
- Alaska Volcano Observatory, Great Sitkin notice volcanoes.usgs.gov. ↩
- Northern Mariana Islands, Ahyi Seamount notice volcanoes.usgs.gov. ↩
- Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, Kilauea notice volcanoes.usgs.gov. ↩
- KMOV, Granite City officials respond to Iowa Street sinkhole after Facebook post firstalert4.com. ↩
- Cape Town ETC, ‘I fear my home will fall into a sinkhole’ says Cape Town resident capetownetc.com. ↩
- National Hurricane Center, Pena forecast discussion nhc.noaa.gov. ↩
- USGS Geoserve, tectonic summary earthquake.usgs.gov. ↩
- USGS Water Science School, Sinkholes usgs.gov. ↩
- Ready.gov (FEMA), Build a Kit ready.gov. ↩
- Ready.gov (FEMA), Floods ready.gov. ↩
- Ready.gov (FEMA), Earthquakes ready.gov. ↩
Methodology: this report is assembled automatically each morning from the live data feeds of the USGS, the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program, the National Weather Service, the National Hurricane Center, the Storm Prediction Center and GDACS, plus same-day news reports for sinkholes. No AI writes it: the sentences are fixed templates filled with that data, and every quote is copied exactly from the source it is credited to. Data can change after publication; follow the links for the latest.
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