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Tsunami Strikes Indonesia's Java Island
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=1312F0D:3919ACA Pacific Tsunami
Warning Center issued a localized tsunami watch after a 7.2 magnitude
earthquake struck off the southwestern coast of Java around 08:20 UTC



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tsunami triggered by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake has hit the
southwestern coast of Indonesia's Java Island. Buildings were
reportedly destroyed, and at least five people have been killed.   

An eyewitness said big waves destroyed beach-front hotels and
restaurants on the southern coast of West Java Monday.

The woman, named Teti, told Indonesia's El Shinta radio that houses
and business establishments in the seaside town of Pangandaran were
wrecked. Teti says she saw at least three bodies.

The tsunami followed a 7.2 magnitude earthquake with an epicenter 355
kilometers southwest of the capital, Jakarta.

The eastern part of Java is still recovering from the damage caused by
a powerful earthquake in May. In December 2004, a tsunami killed some
150,000 people in Indonesia's Aceh province, on the island of Sumatra.


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