Earth Quake Hits Spain!

At least eight people were reported dead and dozens injured after an earthquake shook southeastern Spain on Wednesday, toppling historic buildings in the medieval town of Lorca.

The 5.2 magnitude earthquake was felt across the Murcia region, where hundreds of British expatriate live, from Alicante to Malaga and as far away as Madrid.

The epicentre was registered in the Tercia mountain range close to the town of Lorca, where several buildings were destroyed including a medieval church bell tower. It was the worst earthquake in Spain for 50 years.

Authorities confirmed that at least ten people had died, including a child of 13 years old.

Francisco Jodar, the mayor of the town said: "Unfortunately people have died as a result of cave-ins and falling debris. We're trying to find out if people have been trapped inside the collapsed houses."

Television images showed streets in the historic quarter of the town strewn with rubble and crushed cars. There were also reports that historical heritage sites as the Sanctuary of the Virgen de la Huerta and several local temples had been damaged.

Source : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/8508047/
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This is another interesting news about the prediction of the earthquake(for muslim please take it for information only, do not believe)

Mr Bendandi

Spain earthquake: Was Raffaele Bendandi correct?

The earthquake in Spain has helped to grow the legend of Raffaele Bendandi, the self-taught Italian whose earthquake predictions are still causing panic today.

As the earthquake struck yesterday, there was a sigh of relief in Rome, whose residents had mounted a mass evacuation following claims of a 1915 prediction by Mr Bendandi that the “big one” would wipe out the Eternal City on May 11, 2011.

Mr Bendandi, who died in 1979, never provided any scientific proof for his theory that the movements of the moon and sun, as well as other planets in the solar system, exert a gravitational influence on the movements of the earth’s crust.

However, he became hugely famous in Italy for the accuracy of his predictions. He predicted the earthquake of January 13, 1915 which killed 30,000 people in Avezzano.

He also forecast the quake of May 6, 1976 in Friuli which killed 1,000 and left another 45,000 homeless.

Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator, took Mr Bendandi seriously enough that he made him a Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy, but also banned him from making any public predictions, on pain of exile.

Born in 1893 in the central Italian city of Faenza to a poor family, Mr Bendandi was sent after elementary school to pursue a course in technical design and became a watchmaker’s apprentice. However, he nursed a passion for astronomy and geophysics and built his own telescope and seismographs.

However, Italian seismologists insisted that there were no grounds for worry in Rome yesterday, and also said that there was no link between Mr Bendandi’s supposed prediction and the earthquake that struck Spain.

“There is absolutely no link between Spain and Italy, geologically, or with the prediction of an earthquake in Rome,” said the Italian National Institute of Geology and Vulcanology.

“The earthquake in Spain was not very strong in itself, but it was close to the surface,” said Alberto Michelini, a seismologist at the institute. “The quake happened on the coast, a zone which has not had strong quakes in the past. It is close, however, to the point where the Eurasian plate meets the African plate,” he added.

Source : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/8509135/
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Allah, tidak ada Tuhan (yang berhak disembah) melainkan Dia Yang Hidup kekal lagi terus menerus mengurus (makhluk-Nya), tidak mengantuk dan tidak tidur. Kepunyaan-Nya apa yang di langit dan di bumi. Tiada yang dapat memberi syafaat di sisi Allah tanpa izin-Nya. Allah mengetahui apa-apa yang di hadapan mereka dan di belakang mereka, dan mereka tidak mengetahui apa-apa dari ilmu Allah melainkan apa yang dikehendaki-Nya. Kursi Allah meliputi langit dan bumi. Dan Allah tidak merasa berat memelihara keduanya, dan Allah Maha Tinggi lagi Maha Besar. (Surah Al-Baqarah ayat 255)