KARYASARI, Indonesia (AP) - A powerful earthquake shook the main Indonesian island of Java, killing at least four people and injuring about 200, local officials said today.

The magnitude-6.4 quake, which hit Tuesday night, damaged hundreds of houses in several villages in West Java province, they said.

-- Llama man (llama man@cool.net), December 22, 1999

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Er, what predictions? Are you saying that a computer related issue caused this? What? WHAT?

-- Servant (public_service@yahoo.com), December 22, 1999.

I predict there to be an earthquake of an undiclosed magnitude to hit somewhere between the north pole and south pole somewhere in the vicinity of the next ten years.

Boy this predicting stuff is easy!

-- (now@I'll make. a million dollars), December 22, 1999.

The moon and the sun were unusually close to the earth (once in 133 years or once in 50 years depending on which astronomer you listen to) on Wednesday. There was a widely spread prediction of earthquake on Wednesday and the 2 following days. So that was a 3 day window, of which this is day 2.

-- David Holladay (davidh@brailleplanet.org), December 22, 1999.

How does Karyasari, Indonesia, relate to Malaysia? While they are all that far from one another, they are not the same.

Peace.

Dave

-- David L. Cawthon (dcawthon@okcu.edu), December 22, 1999.

Go to www.syzygyjob.com for geologist Berkland's predictions for a very unusual December. The earthquake window starts Dec. 22, I believe.

-- (normally@ease.notnow), December 22, 1999.

Well it happened a few days later on the 26th december.

-- robert (ratm_ratm@hotmail.com), December 26, 2004.

Well... + / - 5 year's. Not bad at all, the eath is 4 billion year old.

-- Norparn (kreative@spray.e), December 26, 2004.