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Newsweek, January 22, 1995

Earthquakes, as predicted in the hadiths, are among the
most important signs of the Last Day.

In India an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 cost the lives
of 25,000 people and 166,000 more were injured.
In the 6.7 magnitude earthquake that took place in Iran on
December 23, 2003 31,884 people lost their lives and 18,000 were
injured.
In Indonesia the tsunami that struck with a similar impact to

that of an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 cost the lives of
300,000 people.
On October 8, 2005, an earthquake measuring 7.6 in Pakistan
cost the lives of some 100,000 people.
All such cases bring to mind what our Prophet (saas) said
1400 years ago:

The Hour (Last Day) will not be established until ...
earthquakes will be very frequent.
(Bukhari)
There are two great incidents before the Day of
Judgment ... and then years of earthquakes.
(Narrated by Umm Salama (r.a.))

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