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The Earth
Record

THE PLANETARY JOURNAL / DAILY EDITION

4 October 2026.

One planet. One day. A permanent record.

In progress

LAST COLLECTION 01:44 UTC

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2 source records captured so far in this UTC day.Last collection: .1 event feed check is incomplete. This covers our monitored feeds—not every event worldwide or a measure of global safety.

Global average air temperature

Copernicus / ERA5 · land and ocean

15.69°C

Observed 1 October 2026

Preliminary — may be revised

+0.69°C

Compared with the 1991–2020 average for this calendar day. This is near-surface air temperature, not sea-water temperature or an average of cities.

Source retrieved 2026-10-04 01:14 UTC. Daily observations usually lag by about two days.

Last 30 observed daysSolid: daily mean · Dashed: 1991–2020 daily average
15.0°16.0°17.0°2026-09-02: 16.71°C; anomaly +0.92°C; FINAL2026-09-03: 16.69°C; anomaly +0.92°C; FINAL2026-09-04: 16.70°C; anomaly +0.95°C; FINAL2026-09-05: 16.62°C; anomaly +0.90°C; FINAL2026-09-06: 16.52°C; anomaly +0.82°C; FINAL2026-09-07: 16.46°C; anomaly +0.78°C; FINAL2026-09-08: 16.45°C; anomaly +0.80°C; FINAL2026-09-09: 16.41°C; anomaly +0.78°C; FINAL2026-09-10: 16.38°C; anomaly +0.78°C; FINAL2026-09-11: 16.39°C; anomaly +0.81°C; FINAL2026-09-12: 16.34°C; anomaly +0.78°C; FINAL2026-09-13: 16.33°C; anomaly +0.80°C; FINAL2026-09-14: 16.30°C; anomaly +0.79°C; FINAL2026-09-15: 16.26°C; anomaly +0.78°C; FINAL2026-09-16: 16.24°C; anomaly +0.79°C; FINAL2026-09-17: 16.18°C; anomaly +0.76°C; FINAL2026-09-18: 16.13°C; anomaly +0.73°C; FINAL2026-09-19: 16.10°C; anomaly +0.73°C; FINAL2026-09-20: 16.10°C; anomaly +0.76°C; FINAL2026-09-21: 16.12°C; anomaly +0.80°C; FINAL2026-09-22: 16.06°C; anomaly +0.78°C; FINAL2026-09-23: 16.06°C; anomaly +0.81°C; FINAL2026-09-24: 16.09°C; anomaly +0.86°C; FINAL2026-09-25: 16.08°C; anomaly +0.88°C; FINAL2026-09-26: 16.05°C; anomaly +0.89°C; FINAL2026-09-27: 16.01°C; anomaly +0.88°C; FINAL2026-09-28: 15.95°C; anomaly +0.85°C; FINAL2026-09-29: 15.85°C; anomaly +0.78°C; FINAL2026-09-30: 15.76°C; anomaly +0.72°C; FINAL2026-10-01: 15.69°C; anomaly +0.69°C; PRELIMINARY2026-09-022026-10-01
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Earthquakes · M4.5+

2

Within the daily record

Largest earthquake

M 5.9

Observed magnitude

Space-weather records

0

Bulletins and significant flares

Event feed checks

7 / 8

Partial coverage · see source notes

The world today

2 LOCATED RECORDS
Locations of the recorded natural events. Linked markers open the event record.M 5.6 - 80 km S of Banda Aceh, IndonesiaM 5.9 - 39 km WSW of Tambolaka, Indonesia
Earthquakes

Markers show source-reported points, not affected areas. Space-weather records appear separately.

Seismic rhythm

M4.5+ / UTC HOURS
00:0006:0012:0018:0023:00

Bars count earthquakes in the collected daily record. Unelapsed hours have no observations.

Beyond the atmosphere

NOAA SWPC ↗

Strongest recorded flare today

No data

Latest estimated Kp / 9

No data

Kp 5 marks the G1 geomagnetic threshold. Flare class alone does not predict an Earth impact.

The event ledger

2 RECORDS

About this edition

Source health & methodology ↗

Reporting interval: 2026-10-04, 00:00–24:00 UTC. Issued bulletins and event observations are labelled separately. Future-dated or malformed records are withheld. This page preserves a dated record and does not certify that any warning is currently active.

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The ocean record

Source dates differ from the capture date

Ocean observation date

2026-10-02

Temperature & anomaly maps ↗

NOAA ENSO advisory · issued 2026-09-10

El Niño Advisory

Advisory, history & outlook ↗

Latest captured RONI

+1.69°C

JAS 2026 · three-month mean