Earthquake hits Indonesia * Pictures *

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Children were crowded around a video game console, passing the time before they could break the Muslim holy month's daily fast, when an earthquake touched off a landslide that smothered their Indonesian village. Rescuers were searching Thursday for those 13 children and several dozen more people buried alive, as officials warned the death toll of 57 is sure to rise. Thousands of others were spending the night in tents after Wednesday's 7.0-magnitude quake flattened or seriously damaged more than 10,000 homes, offices, schools and mosques on the western side of the densely populated island of Java. Aid workers distributed provision kits, blankets and medicine, but said they were concerned remote areas had not received help following the temblor, which was felt for hundreds of miles.

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Rescuers search for victims after an earthquake-triggered landslide burried a village in Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia, Thursday, Sept. 3. At least dozens of people were killed and another dozens were missing after a strong earthquake rocked southern Indonesia, unleashing mudslides that buried villagers in their homes, disaster management officials said Thursday. (AP / Irwin Fedriansyah)

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Residents walk past by the ruins of houses destroyed by an earthquake in Pengalengan, West Java, Indonesia, Thursday, Sept. 3. (AP / Kusumadireza)

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Indonesian police carry a dead body during an evacuation at Cikangkareng village in Cibinong on Sept. 3. ( AFP/ Getty Images / Adek Berry)

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A man cleans up debris from the ruin of his house damaged by an earthquake in Sindangbarang, West Java, Indonesia, Thursday, Sept. 3. (AP / Irwin Fedriansyah)

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Residents clean up rubbles from the ruins of a house destroyed by an earthquake in Pengalengan, West Java, Indonesia, Thursday, Sept. 3. (AP / Kusumadireza)

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Residents salvage items from a house destroyed by earthquake in Sindangbarang,Java, Indonesia, Thursday, Sept. 3. (West AP / Irwin Fedriansyah)

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Residents salvage items from a house destroyed by earthquake in Pengalengan, West Java, Indonesia, Thursday, Sept. 3. (AP / Kusumadireza)

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A resident inspects the ruins of a house destroyed by earthquake in Tasikmalaya,Java, Indonesia, Thursday, Sept. 3. Rescuers dug through rocks and debris with their bare hands Thursday in search of dozens of villagers believed buried in a landslide triggered by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake. West (AP / Hade Rupa)

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Indonesian youths who were displaced by earthquake sit amid their belongings at a temporary shelter in Tasikmalaya, West java, Indonesia, Thursday, Sept. 3. (AP / Pikiran Rakyat Daily)

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Earthquake victims receive medical treatment at a hospital in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, Thursday, Sept. 3. AP / Asep Buhun

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Residents look on as Indonesian soldiers, police and villagers work together to lift a dead body, a victim of a landslide and quake, out of the mud at Pamoyanan village in Cibinong on Sept. 3. (AFP / Getty Images / Adek Berry)

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A child cries in a refugee camp following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake on Sept. 3, in West Java, Tasikmalaya, Indonesia. (Getty Images / Ulet Ifansasti)

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Refugees rest in a camp following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake on Sept. 3, in West Java, Tasikmalaya, Indonesia. (Getty Images / Ulet Ifansasti)

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Refugees get medical treatment in emergency hospital at a refugee camp following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake on Sept. 3, in West Java, Tasikmalaya, Indonesia. (Getty Images / Ulet Ifansasti)

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Refugees at their camp following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake on Sept. 3, in West Java, Tasikmalaya, Indonesia. (Getty Images / Ulet Ifansasti)

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Refugees pray in their camp following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake on Sept. 3, in West Java, Tasikmalaya, Indonesia. (Getty Images / Ulet Ifansasti)