A major magnitude 7.6 earthquake just struck offshore of Indonesia, triggering severe damage and a tsunami that even reached part of the Philippines. This earthquake lasted for nearly 30 seconds and occurred in a strange and highly unusual geologic setting. Today's video will analyze what exactly happened through the perspective of a geologist. Thumbnail Photo Credit: Google Earth, Image Landsat / Copernicus, Data SIO, NOAA, U.S. Navy, NGA, GEBCO. This image was overlaid with text, and then overlaid with GeologyHub made graphics (the image border & the GeologyHub logo). A special thanks to the EarthquakeSim YouTube channel for granting me permission to use clips of his footage! Video Sources from the EarthquakeSim YouTube channel: [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy_4G7ig5Gw [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQZvfi7778M Subscribe to EarthquakeSim at: https://www.youtube.com/@EarthquakeSim A special thanks to the Extreme Pursuit YouTube channel for granting me permission to use clips of his footage! Video Sources from the Extreme Pursuit YouTube channel: [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHaZyx_kIvA [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu1CxKgU9_k Subscribe to Extreme Pursuit at: https://www.youtube.com/@ExtremePursuit If you would like to support this channel, consider using one of the following links: (Patreon: http://patreon.com/geologyhub) (YouTube membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYeGh5VML5XPr5jYnzh3J6g/join) (Gemstone & Mineral Etsy store: http://prospectingarizona.etsy.com) (GeologyHub Merch Etsy store: http://geologyhub.etsy.com) Google Earth imagery used in this video: ©Google & Data Providers This video is protected under "fair use". If you see an image and/or video which is your own in this video, and/or think my discussion of a scientific paper (and/or discussion/mentioning of the data/information within a scientific paper) does not fall under the fair use doctrine, and wish for it to be censored or removed, contact me by email at [email protected] and I will make the necessary changes. Various licenses used in sections of this video (not the entire video, this video as a whole does not completely fall under one of these licenses) and/or in this video's thumbnail image (and this list does not include every license used in this video and/or thumbnail image): Public Domain: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode Sources/Citations: [1] U.S. Geological Survey [2] Prasetio, A.D., Hasib, M., Amran, A. et al. Local seismotectonic analysis of the July 2019 Molucca Sea earthquake sequence based on moment tensor solutions. Geosci. Lett. 8, 33 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40562-021-00200-z, CC BY 4.0 [3] NOAA 0:00 Major Earthquake Strikes 0:52 Tsunami Extent 2:00 Earthquake Model 2:44 Historical Events 3:31 Volcanoes 4:18 Aftershocks