Well for us, the good news is that you're ok.
I read some other stories that make it sound like there's not much damage, but with this scale of quake, I find that hard to believe unless the epicenter was extremely rural.
The subduction zone there has been active for centuries. Remember that one of the most powerful volcanos/earthquakes ever happened when Krakatoa happened about 100 years ago.
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