EARTHQUAKES cause damage and claim human lives. After shaking Tasikmalaya and its environs on Wednesday last week, a quake triggered SMS text message and Internet rumors that created public anxiety. News circulated about greater aftershocks, 30 times as high as the 7.3-magnitude quake that killed more than 70. It was not about aftershocks in the same location, but rather in the Sunda Strait, with an impact that could smash Banten and Jakarta to s