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Magnitude 7.6 earthquake southern Sumatra, Indonesia on September 30, 2009

A major earthquake occurred at 10:16:09 (UTC) on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 in southern Sumatra, Indonesia, 45 km (30 miles) west-northwest of Padang, Sumatra, Indonesia.  

The magnitude 7.6 earthquake occurred at a depth of 80 kilometers (49.7 miles). 

For more information on this event, see this USGS site: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2009mebz.php

The earthquake was recorded on instruments in the Kentucky Seismic and Strong-Motion Network, operated jointly by the Kentucky Geological Survey and the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Kentucky.

The graphic below is the actual record of the earthquake made by 9 Network instruments.

 

 

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