Earthquake hits Indonesia, with four people killed

At least four people have been killed when a floating restaurant collapsed into the sea during an earthquake in Indonesia today.

The Cirita Cafe in Jayapura, Papua crumbled as the magnitude 5.5 quake rocked the eastern province on the afternoon of Thursday, 9 February.

Four women were unable to flee the collapsed building in time and were buried under the rubble.

They were found lifeless in the Jayapura Bay by responders.

Other infrastructure, including the Jayapura Mall, were reported to have been damaged. A number of residents were also injured.

Indonesia’s meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency said the earthquake struck at 1:28 pm local time, around 1 kilometre southwest of Jayapura at a depth of 10 kilometres.

The country straddles the Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’ where the majority of Earth’s volcano eruptions and earthquakes happen.

It comes just days after an earthquake in Turkey killed at least 15,000 people across the country and in neighbouring Syria.