INDONESIA should steel itself for a far nastier rumble than the earthquake it suffered last week.
“Another earthquake is on its way, and all it will take to trigger it is the pressure of a handshake,” says John McCloskey of the University of Ulster in Coleraine, Northern Ireland.
The city of Padang on the Indonesian island of Sumatra experienced a magnitude-7.6 earthquake on 30 September. At first, geologists assumed this was the earthquake they had been predicting for many years along the tectonic boundary between the Indian, Australian and Eurasian plates (see Map). This interface slipped in 2004 and…
