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Published online 19 September 2007 | Nature 449, 270 (2007) | doi:10.1038/449270a

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Worse quake to come, Indonesia warned

A series of earthquakes might not have reached its peak.

A week after a series of powerful earthquakes rocked Indonesia, killing more than 20 people, geologists are warning that “the big one” may be yet to come. The region might still hold enough energy to release a magnitude-9.

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