Reuters
Jakarta, Jul 17: A tsunami in West Java province killed five people on Monday, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the Indonesian president, said in a radio broadcast.
Indonesia's state meteorology and geophysics agency initially rated the quake at 5.5 magnitude, but then changed that to 6.8.
The Pacific Tsunami Center said that there was a possibility of a local tsunami, but no threat of a destructive widespread tsunami.
Indonesia's 17 000 islands sprawl along a belt of intense volcanic and seismic activity, part of what is called the "Pacific Ring of Fire".