Nevada Earthquake activity. Yellowstone eerily quiet. Tuesday Night update.

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[00:00:01]Good evening everyone. How's it going out there? Welcome back here to a Tuesday night.

[00:00:08]It is the Earth Master out here. May 5th, 2026, 10:19 p.m. California time.

[00:00:14]Latest activity shows a 1.5 across California, looks like. Let's go ahead and see what we got. There's that 1.5 down there off the San Andreas fault outside of Joshua Tree. Uh Nevada is starting to stir back up. Well, it's really never calmed down here in the last couple months, it seems. A lot of activity stirred up around Fallon and Warm Springs and also outside of Las Vegas here recently.

[00:00:37]Uh let's see what we got here. Looks like a 2.2 and a three-pointer here this evening outside of Fallon. Things starting to kick back up here in this range. There's always a possibility there. We could see some larger aftershock activity still. uh the area near Warm Springs, Nevada, getting a little interesting um broader earthquake activity out here away from the main swarm up here north of Warm Springs. It's been uh pretty active. There's a little curvature here which is uh a little odd to say the least. Um but this region just kicked up here out of the blue yesterday once again after being quiet for a little while. We had a uh a decent little uptick here with a 4.5 and quite a few threes in there as well. The latest activity, last event was a 1.9 um just outside of the zone. So, just kind of keeping an eye on things. That's 59 earthquakes here in the last 24 hours. That's well, seven days, excuse me. Last seven days, 59 earthquakes.

[00:01:38]Uh just uh watching the West Coast here.

[00:01:40]A lot of interesting activity inland Pacific Northwest. Uh just a handful of smaller quakes including a explosion down here outside of Bonanza 2.7. That's a decent size event out there for an explosion.

[00:01:55]Uh let's see. I'm not for sure what they're up to out there, but uh obviously maybe some mining issues or whatnot going on. Uh the Cascadia subduction zone. See what this earthquake is. That's from early this morning. Uh the trimmer counts out here.

[00:02:12]Let's go ahead and double check that.

[00:02:13]Looks like we got a little bit underneath the Vancouver Island ranges up here. 34.

[00:02:18]Nothing down there across the southern end for now. It's been a little odd here. Just haven't seen anything out there across the Cascadia and the southern end in terms of trimmer counts recently. Even though we've had activity out here off into the Gorda ridges, which should increase the trimmer, but maybe we're at, you know, maximum pressurization here. We'll have to watch that.

[00:02:42]San Francisco, Bay Area. Um I don't think we got anything new since this morning's update. Uh yeah, maybe a 2.4 outside of Pacifica here. That is just off the San Andreas fault. Aside from that, most of that smaller quake activity there from this morning. Um Southern California 2.5 and above.

[00:03:01]Really nothing. Uh one little earthquake there near Little Lake. There's a 2.9.

[00:03:06]But for the most part, generally small microquake activity out here prevailing across Southern California for now. Uh nothing new to report across Utah heading up into Yellowstone. I don't see anything major going on, but we will double check the Yellowstone um seismograph stations here real quick.

[00:03:25]See what we have on this Tuesday evening.

[00:03:30]Not a whole lot. Not a whole lot happening out there. Yellowstone's been awfully quiet. you know, it's nothing really showing up. In fact, in the last week, there's been no earthquakes there in the Yellowstone super volcano region.

[00:03:42]Some activity out around the Hebin Lake area. Uh, but just a little odd. Nothing really showing up there.

[00:03:50]Uh, nothing new to uh nothing new to report across the oil fields. Just I I don't cover this all that often. I just kind of skip over it unless there's some larger quake activity or a major increase. But right now, this is a daily activity that occurs out there. So, just kind of skipping over that.

[00:04:07]Uh, largest earthquake out here in the last 24 hours goes to that 5.8 down across the North Island, New Zealand area, right around the Bay of Plenty. Any other activity stirring up there across New Zealand for now. Looks like we got couple threes down there across South Island. Kind of making its way uh pressure making its way southward here along the plate boundary. Nothing big uh across South Island for now, but we do have potential for sure. Couple more aftershocks there around the um region of the 5.8 the struck.

[00:04:42]Looks like we got a little bit of movement there across the Izzu trench as well. Probably straining this area of the Nankai trough a little bit uh more there today. That's actually a fairly recent earthquake. Typical clustering going on there across the crunch zone with a 3.7 earthquake being reported.

[00:04:59]Number of other moderate size events there. Uh Japan north into the crowam chata relatively quiet.

[00:05:06]Uh let's see here. There's some deep activity around Italy once again. But getting quite a bit of deeper movement uh up there.

[00:05:17]USGS reporting one of those 4.1 185 miles deep this afternoon.

[00:05:23]Um, and that's the latest one there as well. There was a 4.9 back across the uh Iran area looks like earlier this afternoon as well. Nothing major going on here. Um, for now just got uh kind of it's actually a little active though. Look at this cluster here across the Himalayas westward along the plate boundary.

[00:05:50]Looks a lot more active here than normal for your 24-h hour period, but nothing big. Just a little clustering going on here across India and back over across the Mediterranean for now.

[00:06:02]Alaska area. Um, not so much going on there far as the Illutian Trench goes.

[00:06:07]Just a cluster of activity up along the um inland here around the mainland region of Alaska. Just the typical movement that happens out there. Really nothing major. Couple threes, couple twos. That's about it there on the menu for now.

[00:06:26]Uh let's see. Hawaii. I believe the eruption here, I know it started early this morning, but I believe it's come to a halt already. So, let's go see what we got here from the USGS. The HBO has lowered the volcano alert from watch to advisory following the end of episode 46. I heard the uh main crater, the north vent there was fairly active with only a little bit of activity in the south vent.

[00:06:54]Interesting. Uh but we're done it looks like with episode 46. Kind of a a shorter pattern. You notice that compared to the last ones there. This is episode 46, 45.

[00:07:07]Um and then 44 here. Looks like that was the last long one, but it never really went up in terms of the uh the graph here, right?

[00:07:17]We're a little low. And ever since then, it's been following this lower trend and less time for the eruption to build up, you know, far as the uh the intervals in between eruptions. So, more than likely, this one's going to continue that. What it means, I don't know. Uh I'm guessing maybe things are changing down below uh far as event structure and whatnot, but we'll check back on that here. We continue to we always check out these um inflation models every single day. So we'll we'll be watching them.

[00:07:50]Uh let's see. Anything else major going on here across the uh globe?

[00:07:57]I don't see anything major. Space weather activity. anything major going on on the sun? Doesn't look like it.

[00:08:03]We're way weigh down in the B flare category. Again, that's uh that's going to be the story here for the next several years or so. Uh there'll be occasional uh sunspots out there that will throw off a strong flare or two. Um but you know, solar minimums coming up here.

[00:08:22]We've already peaked solar maximum here about two years ago now. So, we're on the downhill towards solar minimum.

[00:08:30]Uh nothing major for the auroras. The flare threat pretty low right now. Let's take a look here at the magnetogram image.

[00:08:37]See what we got. Um as as I suspect here, all these are just kind of dissipating and shredding apart. You know, I really don't see anything major out there that's going to cause any type of uh um maybe some seaflare activity, but that's about it. Let's see what we got here for the far side of the sun.

[00:08:57]Yes, we can kind of peek around the far side, see what's coming up. Here's the Earth facing side. This is the current sunspots that are facing us. We do have this area. This looks fairly deep and dark. Um, and possibly a large Well, it is a large sunspot. How complex it is, though. Uh, we'll remain uh we'll have to watch and see. So, this is going to go over here and technically it's going to come off on this side over here around the eastern limb uh in uh it should be getting close. Let's see if we can see it.

[00:09:29]I don't see any bright Well, maybe just right here.

[00:09:34]Maybe this area, but you barely see it.

[00:09:36]We'll probably get a little bit better glimpse of it tomorrow morning, but it looks decent in terms of size and and the um you know, that dark image there shows that it's a a decent size sunspot, but we'll get a better glimpse of that here in the coming days. No major roars or uh no major corona hole activity for now. And again, no major auroras. Storm prediction center. Any severe weather out there today? Let's see what we got here from the uh Storm Prediction Center. We had uh four reports of some wind damage out here. Scattered. That's about it. I think that's going to change though here in the coming days. Day two, this is for Wednesday. We have an enhanced area across portions of the south. I know these guys need some rain, but uh man, it looks like it's going to come with the threat of some severe weather out around Jackson and Birmingham. They got a uh an enhanced zone for some big time tornado potential down there in the jungle. Uh so just watch out for that little bit of wind and some big time hail threat out there for your Wednesday.

[00:10:46]uh for the day on Thursday. That severe weather shifting much further south, taking with it any severe weather.

[00:10:52]Um and then we'll check back on that as we get uh further in time. Uh I'm not looking forward to the weather we have coming up here across California. It's just I'm hoping it's going to be shortlived. It looks like it might. Uh but we have temperatures up in the upper 90s to maybe low 100s coming up this weekend and early next week. You know, some people love that. I used to love it too when it a little bit younger. I could go to the lake and listen to music and have a little bit of fun up there, but I don't know, you know, that uh the heat just doesn't do it anymore for me.

[00:11:24]It's too hot. I don't mind 80 degrees, okay? 85, that's a little warm, but once you get up in the upper 90s and low 100s, you know, it's like, come on, how can you enjoy that? But anyway, I I should be used to it. I was used to it, but I don't know. Things are changing, you know. My body's telling me let's go.

[00:11:45]Let's get out of here. Go somewhere cooler.

[00:11:49]All right. Uh what else we got out here, folks? [clears throat] I think that's about it. Um trying to think if there's anything else going on. I was just reading up on some of these earthquakes there with the Nankai trough. Been watching that area closely as well. Uh the n the 1707 earthquake here in the Nankai trough was a uh a big earthquake, a magnitude 8.6 six or 8.7 uh which actually last triggered the eruption there in Mount Fiji Fuji um 49 days later.

[00:12:20]Uh this earthquake was a result of all of the uh sections there going the Nankai trough consists of five different segments. The 1707 earthquake was right here. Notice that A, B, C, D, and E went. And that was following um the 1605 sequence where A, B, C, and D went, but left E out. We're in a similar setup right now where back in um um for some reason it didn't. Uh there it is. Oh, I got to go down on the page.

[00:12:58]Huh?

[00:12:59]Let's see here.

[00:13:02]uh in the 40s there 1946 1944 A and B went C and D went leaving out section E.

[00:13:08]So more than likely this next goound we're going to see a repeat of the 1707 earthquake because of the strain that's been building up taking with it the entirety uh of the uh the sections.

[00:13:21]So it's a good possibility here for sure. 1707 to 1854 that's quite a bit of uh quite a bit of time. But if you look here, when A, B, C, and D went, it didn't, it wasn't even all that long. It was 1605 to 1707. So just over 100 years. Uh, and then we've seen that full rupture. We're not, you know, in 2004 yet. That's that's a ways off, unfortunately. Um, but we're getting closer, you know, and that that could go at any time far as the Nankai trough goes. Just been watching this here closely with all the earthquake activity happening around it. Anyway, folks, have a good night. Seismograph stations out there look pretty quiet for now. Hope everyone enjoys their evening. We will see you guys back out here for the Wednesday morning update. Take care.