An earthquake struck Indonesia overnight, damaging dozens of homes and injuring multiple people.
The 4.9-magnitude jolt struck at a depth of 6.46 miles, in Adonara, East Nusa Tenggara, shortly before midnight on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.
Two villages on the small island of Adonara felt the biggest impact, with more than 100 houses damaged and at least 20 people injured, according to local official Ismail Daton Ban.
Indonesia and neighbouring countries experience frequent earthquakes due to their location in the Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’ – an arc of intense seismic activity stretching from Japan through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific basin.
It comes after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck in the Molucca Sea off Indonesia’s Ternate island early last Thursday, claiming the life of one person.
The quake, which struck at 06:48 local time at a depth of 21.7 miles, sparked tsunami warnings which were later withdrawn.
A 70-year-old woman in North Sulawesi died after being crushed by building debris, and another person broke their leg after jumping off a building, Indonesia’s national news agency Antara reported.
The epicentre of the quake was roughly midway between Manado and Ternate.
A resident clears debris from a damaged wall of his home after a 4.9 magnitude earthquake in Adonara, East Nusa Tenggara on April 9, 2026,
Dozens of homes were left destroyed and multiple people were injured, an official said
At least two aftershocks, with magnitudes 5.5 and 5.2, followed the quake, with authorities warning others may follow.
In 2022, a magnitude 5.6 earthquake killed at least 602 people in West Java’s Cianjur city, the deadliest one in Indonesia since a 2018 quake and tsunami in Sulawesi killed more than 4,300 people.
In 2004, an extremely powerful Indian Ocean quake set off a tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people in a dozen countries, most of them in Indonesia’s Aceh province.
Shallow quakes tend to be more damaging, with seismic waves travelling a shorter distance through the ground and reaching the surface with more energy.
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