JAKARTA, 17 July 2006 - A powerful earthquake sent a 6-foot-high tsunami crashing into a beach resort on Indonesia's Java island Monday, killing at least five people and causing extensive damage to hotels, restaurants and homes, the president and witnesses said. People ran up a hill to escape the wave on Pangandaran beach in west Java, a woman who identified herself only as Teti told el-Shinta radio station.

\ "All the houses are destroyed along the beach," she said. "Small hotels are completely destroyed and at least one restaurant was washed away." President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told reporters that at least five people were killed. The tsunami followed a quake that struck deep beneath the Indian Ocean 150 miles southwest of Java's western coast at 3:24 p.m. local time, causing tall buildings to sway as far off as the capital Jakarta.

The earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.2, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It was followed by a 6.1-magnitude aftershock two hours later. Transport Minister Hatta Radjasa said he had heard reports about a tsunami striking two seaside towns, and urged people living on Java's southern coast to move inland in an orderly fashion.

Locations of the earthquakes
· 7.2 magnitude, South of Java, 107.347E, 9.294S
· 6.1 magnitude, South of Java, 107.653E, 9.132S
· 6.0 magnitude, South of Java, 107.799E, 8.859S
· 5.9 magnitude, South of Java, 107.731E, 9.485S

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