https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NFJ-r9fUSE
Three major earthquakes struck the Pacific Ring of Fire within ten days — Tonga, Vanuatu, and now Indonesia’s Maluku region with a magnitude 7.8. These aren’t random isolated events. They’re all connected to the same system: the Pacific plate, the largest tectonic plate on Earth. In this video we break down why Indonesia’s Banda Sea is one of the only places on Earth with double subduction — a plate being destroyed from both sides simultaneously — why Tonga sits on the fastest subduction zone on Earth, and what dynamic triggering actually means for Japan, Alaska, and the US West Coast. We separate the science from the panic and give you an honest picture of what the data is actually showing right now.