I loko o 24 mau hola ma hope o ke ōlaʻi 8.3-nui i hoʻopau i nā ola o 119 ma Samoa a me Samoa ʻAmelika, ua pā hou mai kekahi olai ikaika. ʻO kēia manawa e hoʻopaʻa inoa ana i ka 7.6-magnitude ma ka pālākiō Richter, ua hōʻea ke ōlaʻi ikaika ma kahakai o Sumatra a ua make i kēia manawa he 75 mau kānaka a paʻa i nā tausani ma lalo o nā ʻōpala a me nā ʻōpala, e like me nā luna Indonesia.
Ua hōʻike ʻia ka haʻalulu ʻo Sumatra i nā nalu haʻalulu i Singapore a me Malaysia e pili ana a ua hoʻomaka koke ka makaʻu i kahi kai eʻe no nā ʻāina a puni ka moana India. Ua hoʻopuka mua ʻia kahi mākaʻikaʻi kai eʻe no ka ʻāina, akā ua kāpae ʻia he mau hola ma hope.
Ua hōʻoia ʻo Randy Baldwin, ka mea geophysicist National Earthquake Center o US Geological Survey, ʻaʻole pili nā ōlaʻi o Samoa a me Indonesia. "He wahi mamao loa ka hoʻokaʻawale ʻana i nā ʻōlaʻi ʻelua, ʻaʻohe pilina," i ʻōlelo ʻo ia i nā mea hoʻolaha. “He ʻāina ikaika loa ia a puni ka moana Pakipika.”
Wahi a Baldwin, ua hoʻomaka ke ōlaʻi ma kahi o 31 mau mile ma ke komohana ʻākau o ke kūlanakauhale ʻo Padang ma ka hema o Sumatra. Aia ka wahi ma ka laina kuhi like i hoʻokumu i ke kai eʻe o ka moana ʻo India i ka makahiki 2004 i make ma mua o 230,000 mau kānaka.
Ma kahi kaʻawale, ua paʻi kekahi ōlaʻi iā Peru a me Bolivia. Ua hoʻokau ʻia ka ʻōlaʻi 6.3 ma ka hema hikina o Peru, kokoke i ke kapikala ʻo Bolivia ʻo La Paz, ua hōʻike ʻia ka US Geological Survey. Wahi a nā hōʻike, ʻo ke ōlaʻi, hohonu loa ma 160.3 mau mile, aia ma kahi o 100 mau mile ma ke komohana ʻākau o La Paz.
