Jakarta, Sep 3 (DPA) UN agencies and the Indonesian government were dispatching relief teams Thursday as the death toll from a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that struck Java island rose to 49, officials said.

Dozens were still missing and feared dead after the quake Wednesday triggered a landslide in Cianjur district in West Java.

Fahmi Azhar, an official at the West Java disaster relief coordination agency, said 49 people had been killed in the disaster but the number was likely to rise as news of more casualties came in.

Officials said more than 18,000 homes in West Java were damaged and more than 5,000 people were displaced in the hardest-hit areas.

Television footage showed residents cooking food in kitchens set up outside their homes to prepare predawn meals before they began their daily fasts during the Islamic month of Ramzan.

The health ministry put the number of injured at 422.

Meanwhile, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said it had sent a team to assess damage caused by the quake.

'An interagency team is already evaluating the needs together with the Indonesian government,' said the agency's Indonesia chief, Ignacio Leon.

The team included experts from the World Food Programme and the UN Department of Field Support, he said.

In Cianjur, searches resumed Thursday morning for at least 46 people who were buried alive and feared dead after a landslide blanketed homes and a mosque, media reports said.