A resident clears debris from a damaged wall of his home after a shallow 4.9 magnitude earthquake in Adonara, East Nusa Tenggara on April 9, 2026, damaging dozens of homes and injuring multiple people, an official said. (Photo by Handrianus Hali / AFP)
Maumere, Indonesia: A shallow 4.9-magitude earthquake struck eastern Indonesia overnight, damaging dozens of homes and injuring multiple people, an official said Thursday.
The jolt struck at a depth of 10.4 kilometres (6.46 miles), some 104 kilometres east of Maumere, East Nusa Tenggara, shortly before midnight on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.
A resident clears debris from a damaged wall of her home after a shallow 4.9 magnitude earthquake in Adonara, East Nusa Tenggara on April 9, 2026, damaging dozens of homes and injuring multiple people, an official said. (Photo by Handrianus Hali / AFP)
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.
