Quakes a Warning of Worse to Come?

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"One by one, two by two, the men are getting worn out and are letting go of the rope. That puts more stress on each of the remaining men," he wrote in an e-mail Tuesday. "Who knows which one will let go next, or whether they will let go all at once?"

"They are best seen as part of a chain that began in 2004," said Dr. Fauzi, a top scientist at Indonesia's National Earthquake Centre. "The stability of the fault has been disturbed," said Fauzi, who goes by a single name.

"We don't have such equipment," said Suyud, an official at [Bengkulu]'s Meteorology and Geophysics Agency.

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Quakes a Warning of Worse to Come?

Fault line ruptures 20 times this month

By Chris Brummitt

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The fault line that spawned the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami has ruptured nearly 20 ...

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