Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia

(earthquake.usgs.gov)

105 points | by Bender 2 hours ago

7 comments

  • insaider 1 hour ago
    Is this big enough to produce a Tsunami? Apparently maybe only a small localised one, but I'm supposed to be getting the ferry from Lombok to Bali shortly and two of those have already burnt down the last 2 weeks!
    • decimalenough 1 hour ago
      A ferry in the open ocean is one of the safer places to be during a tsunami. Remember, it's not a surf-style wave, but a gradual increase in water level.
    • wiml 56 minutes ago
      I've seen "possible tsunami" pre-warnings, and a sea level gauge at/near Lembar showing sea level oscillations - so I would recommend keeping a close watch on some information source that's better than HN comment threads, yes.
    • bdickason 23 minutes ago
      I would upgrade the ferry and make sure to get a high quality one given all the swell in the ocean already (most of bali had 6ft+ waves yesterday) and this incident. Not worth the risk.
    • Grimburger 1 hour ago
      Tsunamis are only an issue close to shore. In the ocean it's barely a mild wave.

      In a boat going further out is the safest thing you can do if there's a tsunami warning.

    • rootsudo 18 minutes ago
      Interesting times for the ferry indeed
    • reilly3000 1 hour ago
      Safe travels, friend.
    • pestatije 46 minutes ago
      the tsunami risk is negligible compared to the fire risk
  • CookieCrisp 1 hour ago
    I know large earthquakes are effectively random (ignoring aftershocks) but this feels like a lot this year, yeah?
    • teacpde 1 hour ago
      Yea, feel like a lot of big ones this year, but looking it up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_2026 it is actually not necessarily worse than previous years.
    • ortusdux 1 hour ago
      76 quakes ranking 7.0+ so far this decade, including 10 this year.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_2021%E2%80...

    • jeffrwells 39 minutes ago
      HN highlighting a lot this year, is all
    • kermatt 1 hour ago
      • shpx 1 minute ago
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      • LeBit 1 hour ago
        > Note: While it may look like there have been an increase in total number of earthquakes since about 2020, this is actually due to the increasing number of seismic stations installed in the park since 2020 that are able to detect smaller (<= 0.5 magnitude) earthquakes. If you look at the number of earthquakes >= 1.0, the rate has remained about the same.
      • goda90 1 hour ago
        Why does this page say there have been 0 >2.5mag earthquakes this year?
        • teraflop 2 minutes ago
          Because this particular sensor network is only monitoring earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest of the USA, not worldwide.
  • burnt-resistor 1 hour ago
    So Google Earth says the ocean depth at the epicenter is 6,286 ft / 1,916 m, but I couldn't find a corresponding tsunami alert or evaluation of risk.
    • mikeyouse 1 hour ago
      Looks like it was a strike-slip fault, so a much lower tsunami risk compared to a subduction / dip-slip fault.
  • navigate8310 1 hour ago
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  • numb_code 42 minutes ago
    oh, that so sad