# Did I hear right?  7.6 quake in Indonesia?

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**Created:** [September 11, 2008, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-hear-right-7-6-quake-in-indonesia/463039 "2008-09-11T00:52:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-hear-right-7-6-quake-in-indonesia/463039/1 "2008-09-11T00:52:30Z")

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Are our Dopers in that area okay, if so?

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**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-hear-right-7-6-quake-in-indonesia/463039/2 "2008-09-11T01:04:50Z")

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The USGS are reporting it as a 6.6 although some news sources have it at 7.6

See here for the USGS details (and some cool maps)

[http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008wvab.php](http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008wvab.php)

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**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-hear-right-7-6-quake-in-indonesia/463039/3 "2008-09-11T01:14:10Z")

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[Tsunami alerts in both Indonesia and Japan](http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24328844-401,00.html)