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The Associated Press

Indonesia's earthquake had just a 5.6 magnitude. Why are hundreds of people dead?

Enjot, 45, who lost his house and some of his relatives, walks on Tuesday past the rubble of a building collapsed in Monday's earthquake in Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia. (Tatan Syuflana/AP)

JAKARTA, Indonesia — A 5.6 magnitude earthquake left more than 260 dead and hundreds injured as buildings crumbled and terrified residents ran for their lives on Indonesia's main island of Java.

Bodies continued to be pulled from the debris on Tuesday morning in the hardest-hit city of Cianjur, located in the country's most densely populated province of West Java and some 135 miles south of the capital, Jakarta. A number of people are still missing.

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