>>http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/06/usgs-earthquake-strikes-northern-sumatra/
>>http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/?region=3&id=indian.2010.04.06.222245
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>>Looks like they issued a local Tsunami Watch but nothing here in Hawaii yet - maybe since it happened on the Indian Ocean side of Indonesia that won't happen....geeze lots of quakes lately? Is it 2012 or what?
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>I was thinking the same thing. There have been a heck of a lot of big earthquakes lately.

Yes there have and the seemed to be working their way around the Pacific plate until yesterday. The west coast of North America from Portland to Alaska is overdue for a big quake too.