Earth Changes · Daily Report · November 14, 2026, 6:30 AM CST
The National Weather Service has 63 severe or extreme alerts in effect, led by 2 blizzard warnings across AK.[1]
Meanwhile, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck 79 km WSW of Changuillo, Peru at 4:43 p.m. UTC on Nov. 13, about 10 km (≈6 miles) below the surface, the U.S. Geological Survey reports[2]. The USGS PAGER system rates the expected impact GREEN. It was one of 21 quakes of magnitude 4.5 or greater in the past day.
Elsewhere, Great Sitkin volcano is at alert level WATCH (aviation color code ORANGE), the Alaska Volcano Observatory says. Its latest update: “Slow eruption of lava within the summit crater continues; low-level seismicity persists”[3]
Today at a Glance
- 21 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or greater, the largest M5.8
- 63 severe or extreme U.S. weather alerts
- 3 U.S. volcanoes above normal, including Great Sitkin
- 3 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
The National Hurricane Center is tracking no active tropical storms.[4]
Across the United States, the National Weather Service has 63 alerts rated severe or extreme in effect.[1]
| Alert | Number | States |
|---|---|---|
| Blizzard Warning | 2 | AK |
| Freeze Warning | 26 | AL, AR, GA, LA, MS, NC and more |
| Heavy Freezing Spray Warning | 16 | PK |
| Flood Warning | 6 | AZ, FL, TX |
| Storm Warning | 6 | PZ |
| Winter Storm Warning | 2 | CA |
| Coastal Flood Warning | 1 | CA |
| Flood Watch | 1 | WA |
| Freeze Watch | 1 | AL, MS |
| High Wind Warning | 1 | OR |
Blizzard Warning issued November 13 at 2:59PM AKST until November 15 at 7:00AM AKST by NWS Fairbanks AK (Northern Arctic Coast): “* WHAT…Blizzard conditions. Additional snow accumulations up to two inches.”
The Storm Prediction Center says no severe thunderstorm areas are forecast today.[5]
2. Earthquakes
The USGS recorded 21 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or greater in the past 24 hours.[6] The strongest:
| Mag. | Where | When | Depth | PAGER |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.8 | 79 km WSW of Changuillo, Peru | Nov. 13, 4:43 p.m. UTC | 10 km | GREEN |
| 5.5 | northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge | Nov. 14, 9:26 a.m. UTC | 10 km | GREEN |
| 5.2 | State of Yap, Federated States of Micronesia | Nov. 14, 6:52 a.m. UTC | 10 km | — |
| 5.2 | off the west coast of northern Sumatra | Nov. 14, 2:59 a.m. UTC | 10 km | — |
| 5.2 | 79 km NE of Kuqa, China | Nov. 13, 4:17 p.m. UTC | 10 km | — |
| 5.2 | West Chile Rise | Nov. 13, 2:12 p.m. UTC | 10 km | — |
| 5.1 | 153 km NW of Kavieng, Papua New Guinea | Nov. 13, 11:30 p.m. UTC | 10 km | — |
| 5.1 | South Sandwich Islands region | Nov. 13, 7:04 p.m. UTC | 64 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 within the summit crater continues; low-level seismicity persists[3] |
| Ahyi Seamount | Advisory / Yellow | Underwater plume detected in satellite data; no significant geophysical signals.[7] |
| Kilauea | Advisory / Yellow | The Halema'uma'u eruption of Kīlauea remains paused following episode 56 fountaining on November 5. The summit is reinflating and the episode 57 forecast window is November 17-22.[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:
- KMBC reports, “Crews release timeline for reopening of Southwest Trafficway after water main break causes large sinkhole Crews release timeline for reopening of Southwest Trafficway after water main break causes large sinkhole Crews are working to repair a new, large sinkhole in the middle of a busy stretch of road on Thursday.”[9]
- Villages-News.com reports, “Community Development District 3 supervisors spent about $260,000 Friday to repair sinkholes in two basins.”[10]
- Hoodline reports, “A water main break near 37th Street opened a sinkhole in the middle lane of southbound Southwest Trafficway on Thursday afternoon, and crews are asking drivers to treat that stretch as optional.”[11]
Also in the News
Other natural-hazard video from the past day, from news organizations:
Video: Al Jazeera English, November 14, 2026 — “Thailand elderly care: One nursing home accused of abusing residents”. Also in the news. Picked because its title names a natural hazard; it may not be covered in the data above.
Video: Al Jazeera English, November 14, 2026 — “Migrants rescued in Atlantic storm reach Spain’s El Hierro as election campaign begins”. 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.
“Severe thunderstorms are unlikely across the U.S. today and tonight.”
— NOAA Storm Prediction Center[5]
“The South American arc extends over 7,000 km, from the Chilean margin triple junction offshore of southern Chile to its intersection with the Panama fracture zone, offshore of the southern coast of Panama in Central America. It marks the plate boundary between the subducting Nazca plate and the South America plate, where the oceanic crust and lithosphere of the Nazca plate begin their descent into the mantle beneath South America. The convergence associated with this subduction process is responsible for the uplift of the Andes Mountains, and for the active volcanic chain present along much of this deformation front.”
— U.S. Geological Survey, “Seismotectonics of South America (Nazca Plate Region),” on the region around the M5.8 quake[12]
“Satellite radar imagery over the past week showed that the south flank of the active lava dome within the summit crater of Great Sitkin Volcano continues to move very slowly southward. Although conditions were mostly cloudy, a few clear views of the volcano during the week showed the typical steam plume from the dome and slightly elevated surface temperatures. Seismic activity remains low with occasional small volcanic earthquakes and signals from minor rockfalls caused by lava flow growth.”
— Alaska Volcano Observatory, on Great Sitkin[3]
“A plume of discolored water was visible in a partially cloudy satellite image over Ahyi Seamount on November 10. 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. ↩
- USGS, M5.8 79 km WSW of Changuillo, Peru event page earthquake.usgs.gov. ↩
- Alaska Volcano Observatory, Great Sitkin notice volcanoes.usgs.gov. ↩
- National Hurricane Center, active storms data nhc.noaa.gov. ↩
- NOAA Storm Prediction Center, Day 1 Convective Outlook spc.noaa.gov. ↩
- USGS, M4.5+ earthquakes, past day (real-time feed) earthquake.usgs.gov. ↩
- Northern Mariana Islands, Ahyi Seamount notice volcanoes.usgs.gov. ↩
- Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, Kilauea notice volcanoes.usgs.gov. ↩
- KMBC, Crews release timeline for reopening of Southwest Trafficway after sinkhole kmbc.com. ↩
- Villages-News.com, Villager upset about stinky sinkhole in basin near his home villages-news.com. ↩
- Hoodline, KC sinkhole closes Southwest Trafficway lanes hoodline.com. ↩
- 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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