While the authorities scramble to locate two hikers still missing from last Friday's shock earthquake in Ranau, aftershocks of a different kind are being felt in cyberspace.

Today The Star reported a 22-year-old civil servant was arrested for a Facebook posting, blaming the earthquake on the alleged lack of morals in Sabah.

The accused was picked up last night the day after the quake, criticising Sabah's pubs and nightclubs and mocking the state's concerns over the tragedy that has thus far claimed 18 lives.

According to the report the civil servant has had his handphone seized and his statement taken, and his case is being forwarded to the deputy public prosecutor for "swift action".

Meanwhile, the nudists who are being blamed for sparking the earthquake with their act of desecration of the sacred Mount Kinabalu are in for rocky times, with two of them, Canadians, reportedly barred from leaving the country and facing gross indecency charges.

A third Canadian, who appears to have left Malaysia, slammed Sabah tourism minister Masidi Manjun on Twitter for being superstitious, calling him "an idiot, not a minister of tourism".

Manjun tweeted back, "Just got this very complimentary posting from the nudist. I say, 'it takes a monkey to call another person a monkey'."

Meanwhile Canada's The Star reported the Canadian High Commission has been alerted to the fate of the two nationals facing charges for the act, which took place on May 30, a week before the earthquake struck.