Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia

insaider•about 2 hours 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•about 2 hours 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•about 1 hour 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.

lostlogin•13 minutes ago

Correct, but also, I’d bet there is a lurking tsunami expert here somewhere. Nothing is ever too niche for HN.

bdickason•about 1 hour 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•about 2 hours 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.

wahnfrieden•23 minutes ago

Safer than going inland..?

lostlogin•12 minutes ago

There have been 70m tsunamis and lakes get tsunamis too, so… maybe?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tsunamis

rootsudo•about 1 hour ago

Interesting times for the ferry indeed

reilly3000•about 2 hours ago

Safe travels, friend.

pestatije•about 1 hour ago

the tsunami risk is negligible compared to the fire risk

CookieCrisp•about 2 hours ago

I know large earthquakes are effectively random (ignoring aftershocks) but this feels like a lot this year, yeah?

teacpde•about 2 hours 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•about 2 hours 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•about 1 hour ago

HN highlighting a lot this year, is all

kermatt•about 2 hours ago

I was wondering the same: https://www.morageology.com/earthquake_year.php

LeBit•about 2 hours 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•about 2 hours ago

Why does this page say there have been 0 >2.5mag earthquakes this year?

teraflop•31 minutes ago

Because this particular sensor network is only monitoring earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest of the USA, not worldwide.

burnt-resistor•about 2 hours 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•about 2 hours ago

Looks like it was a strike-slip fault, so a much lower tsunami risk compared to a subduction / dip-slip fault.

lightedman•3 minutes ago

Beachball (moment tensor) says it's a thrust fault with a ton of lateral movement (aka attempted subduction.) https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000tkt2... eyeballs filled in are pretty much thrust faults and horizontal like that means subduction-possible movement.

numb_code•about 1 hour ago

oh, that so sad

Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia

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