It’s Getting Crazy… M7.8 Hits Same Region — Third Major Quake hits with TSUNAMI WARNING !

LORD,

WHOA, this is intense. Magnitude 7.8

along the Pacific Ring of Fire. And that

comes just

shortly after we had some other two

magnitude 7 plus magnitude 7.6 and

magnitude 7.3

and now magnitude 7.8 has just struck

Indonesia right in the Maluku region one

of the most complex tectonic zones on

earth. What is going on with the Pacific

Ring of Fire or the Pacific plate? Is

this a ripple effect from the other

quakes? Because the plate is being

moved. So, here is what should catch

your attention, guys. One of the most

complex tectonic zones on Earth and

magnitude 7.8 that comes just days after

two other major earthquakes. Tonga,

Vanuatu. Three powerful earthquakes,

different locations, but same systems.

So what's happening beneath the Pacific

Ocean right now? Let's break this down

in a way so that it makes actually

sense. So this Indonesia quake, let's

talk about this first. It's not a normal

plate boundary. You see it on the map.

It's like a little bit of like a

enclosed valley. This is one of the only

places on Earth where a tectonic plate

is being destroyed. destroyed from both

sides at the same time. You have

something that is called double

subduction. [gasps]

So as if one subduction zone is not

dangerous enough, double subduction.

From both sides, you get the pressure.

The subduction zones are the most

dangerous earthquake and volcanic zones

in the world. and the Pacific ring of

fire that horseshoe formed ring of fire

that encloses the Pacific we see the

mega thrust earthquakes the mega

tsunamis so magnitude 7.8 for sure can

create a tsunami but it's dependent on

different factors so let's have a look

the Muca sea plate that's where we have

this magnitude 7.8 gate is being

crushed, squeezed, and forced downwards

from both directions. That's how it's

bent. So that creates stress from

multiple angles. As you can imagine,

it's not just one clean fault. So when

that one finally releases, it releases

big. That's how you get a magnitude 7.8.

USGS has now downgraded it to 7.4.

before. So, but now compare this to

Tonga and Vanuatu. Those are different,

but they're still connected. And I'll

tell you why. Out there with the other

two, you're dealing with like a more

classic setup, so to speak. A classic

subduction zone, dangerous setup. The

Pacific plate is diving beneath the

Indo-Australian plate along deep ocean

trenches. This is pure subduction. And

when I released my last video about

these two earthquakes, some of you said,

"Well, I'm in New Zealand. I haven't

heard about this." Press says nothing.

Very surprising if you look at the

location, right? So

again, I said this is the fastest

subduction on Earth. It subducts faster

than in other spots. So in Tonga,

especially, the Pacific plate is

plunging down extremely steep. not at an

at an an angle. It's extremely deep and

extremely fast. So that's why this

region produces very deep earthquakes,

very powerful earthquakes and serious

tsunami potential. Vanuatu sits along

the same system just further along this

arc. So here's the key difference

between the three. We have Tonga and

Vanuatu. Clean, fast, powerful

subduction. Maluku in Indonesia.

Chaotic, chaotic collision, double

subduction, multi-directional

stress, different mechanics, but part of

the same larger system. Now, let's zoom

out a little bit. All of this sits along

the Pacific Ring of Fire. And at the

center of it all is one thing, the

Pacific plate. And that plate is

massive. It's moving. And right now it's

diving under Tonga. It's interacting

with Vanuatu and it is transferring

stress in fragmented zones of Indonesia.

So think of it like pressure moving

through a system. So when one section

shifts, it can redistribute stress along

the edges. It's not like dominoes in a

straight line, but basically what we're

seeing here, tension is moving through a

cracked surface. So, and that's what

makes this moment different because we

are seeing Tonga move, Vanua move, and

now Indonesia

releases a magnitude magnitude 7.8.

That tells us one thing. The Pacific

plate system is highly highly active

right now. Now, does that mean this is a

foresshock? Now, does that mean a bigger

quake is coming? No one can say that. We

just can't say that, guys. But what we

can say is this.

This is not quiet behavior. I'm sitting

along the Pacific Ring of Fire. I'm

sitting along the dangerous Cascadia

subduction zone that can produce a

magnitude 9 plus. We're all doomed on

the West Coast if that happened. We're

dealing here with a stressed moving

system that is releasing energy across

multiple major boundaries right now. And

when you see activity like this spread

across tectonic styles like this, you

have to pay attention. And we are. So

there's one more thing. This Indonesia

quake didn't just happen on land. It

happened in a region that is surrounded

by deep ocean, steep underwater slopes,

and active volcanic arcs. So that means

that tsunami risk is real. Aftershocks

could be strong and nearby volcanic

systems are sitting on top of the same

unstable ground.

So we could see some volcanic eruption.

Indonesia has so many active volcanoes.

We've seen this with the Kamchatka mega

thrust earthquake 8.8 that happened last

year. We saw volcanoes erupt. So three

major earthquakes in such a short period

of time. Three different tectonic

settings. One connected system. The

Pacific plate is not quiet right now.

It's moving. And when it moves like

this, the effects unfortunately do not

stay in one place. So I know the

questions arise now. Can this trigger

earthquakes on the west coast on the

opposite side of the Pacific plate? Can

it trigger something in Japan, Kamchatka

again, Alaska? Well, uh, yeah, we could

see some shaking, but not in the same

way Indonesia moved right now. Not in

the same way that we say, "Oh,

California is next." Right? The honest

answer is a quake like this can

sometimes dynamically trigger

earthquakes very far away because

seismic waves are traveling through the

planet and of course then they can

disturb falls that are especially close

to failure if they're already very very

close to failure. Right? The USGS says

that this kind of distant triggering

does happen especially in places that

are already very active. So, but that

does not mean guys that this Indonesia

quake is now directly loading the falls

off of the coast of the US or Canada or

Alaska or Japan in some like clean

domino pattern, right? The farther away

you get, the weaker the the the direct

stress on the other fault systems

becomes. And most large distant quakes

still do not lead to a major followon

event somewhere else. what it really

means that already stressed regions can

sometimes get a nudge. So, Japan, this

is the one I would watch most closely

right now in a in a broad

ring of fire sense because Japan is

already one of the most seismically

active plate boundary systems on Earth

with major subduction zones and also

frequent large earthquakes. We see it

all the time, right? That does not mean

that a quake is heading towards Japan.

If we look at the whole Pacific Ring of

Fire and the earthquakes that happen

there every day, every day this thing

shakes every day. So you cannot say

because it was shaking here, this is why

it's shaking here. It's constant, right?

But Japan is exactly the place where

distant dynamic triggering is at least

physically plausible because the system