A woman comforts her daughter as they stand in front of their damaged house after an earthquake in Pangalengan, West Java September 3, 2009.

People stand outside a house destroyed by an earthquake in Tasikmalaya, West Java, Indonesia, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009. A powerful earthquake rattled southern Indonesia on Wednesday, killing at least 32 people crushed by falling rock or collapsed buildings and sending thousands fleeing outdoors for safety in the middle of the work day.

Villagers look at the site where an earthquake-triggered landslide hit houses in a village in Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009.

A mother and her children spend a night in a makeshift tent after fleeing from their houses damaged by an earthquake in Kuningan, West Java September 3, 2009.
At least 44 people were killed and dozens were missing after a strong earthquake rocked southern Indonesia, unleashing mudslides that buried villagers in their homes, disaster management officials said Thursday.
At least 110 people were hospitalized after the 7.0 magnitude quake just off the coast of the densely populated Java island, Disaster Management Agency spokesman Priyadi Kardono said, adding that 10 of them were in critical condition.
The Wednesday afternoon temblor caused heavy damage across West Java province, where 700 buildings were severely damaged or toppled. Most of the deaths and injuries were ca used by falling debris or collapsed walls and rooftops.
A village in Cianjur district was hit by a landslide, burying dozens under tons of rock and mud. At least 10 bodies were recovered and villagers were digging in search of around 40 people listed as missing, Kardono said.
The prolonged shaking from the quake, which the Indonesian Meteorological and Geophysics Agency put at a stronger 7.3, was felt hundreds of miles away on the neighboring resort island of Bali.
In the capital, Jakarta, 125 miles away, thousands of panicked office workers flooded out of swaying skyscrapers onto the streets, some of them screaming.

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