KUALA LUMPUR/KOTA KINABALU: Four Westerners who posed naked on Malaysia’s highest peak were Friday sentenced to three days in jail, fined and ordered deported after pleading guilty to obscenity charges for taking nude photos on a popular climbing peak.

The four were among 10 foreigners who stripped naked and took photos on Mount Kinabalu on May 30. A local official has said the foreigners’ behavior was disrespectful to the mountain, and which was blamed for causing a deadly earthquake that killed 18 climbers.

The defendants — Eleanor Hawkins of Britain, 24, Dutchman Dylan Snel, 23, and Canadian brother and sister Lindsey, 23, and Danielle Petersen, 22 — were arrested earlier this week in the wake of the deadly June 5 quake which killed 18 people on Mount Kinabalu.

They pleaded guilty in a court in Sabah state on Borneo island to a charge of public indecency, The Star newspaper said on its website.

It said the women were topless while the two men were totally nude. The court sentenced them to three days in jail and a fine of 5,000 ringgit ($1,330) each, to be followed by their deportation, it said.

They will be released after they pay the fines because of the time they have spent in jail since their arrests, it said.