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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
A geologist looks at a screen showing the seismograph reading of the powerful earthquake that rocked Sumatra island at the office of Indonesia's meteorological agency in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.6, and struck 30 miles (50 kilometers) off the coast of Sumatra.
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