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| - Fact Check: 2018 clip of Imam praying amid earthquake resurfaces after recent deadly tremors in Indonesia
A video has been circulating on social media that allegedly shows a man dressed in white praying inside a mosque amid heavy tremors in Indonesia.
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India Today Fact Check
This video is four years old. It is from August 5, 2018, shot in Bali's Musholla As-Syuhada mosque when a 6.9 magnitude earthquake rocked Indonesia claiming the lives of at least 98 people.
A devastating earthquake in the West Java province of Indonesia on November 11 left at least 160 people dead, with nearly a thousand injured and damage worth crores. According to the United States Geological Survey, the magnitude of the quake was 5.6 and it hit Indonesia around 1:21 pm local time.
Following this, a video has been circulating on social media that allegedly shows a man dressed in white praying inside a mosque amid heavy tremors. This clip begins with chants of prayer on the loudspeaker. As soon as the tremors started, several people ran away.
The man in white and a few others, however, stood still and continued to pray, holding the walls for support. This video was shared by many on Twitter, with captions like, "Earthquake of 5.6 magnitude hits Indonesia, 56 died and 700 injured so far. worshipers continued to pray Salah. SubhanAllah. May Allah bless them and have mercy on them." The archived version of such a post can be seen here.
AFWA's investigation found that this video was at least four years old, and thus, not from the recent earthquake.
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A reverse search of screengrabs from the viral video took us to a BBC report from August 7, 2018, that carried the same image of the man in white holding the wall for support. Reportedly, he was an Imam named Arafat and the video was from the Musholla As-Syuhada mosque in Bali, Indonesia.
A spokesman for the mosque told BBC News that worshippers heard sounds from "the ceiling and the roof like it was going to fall, so we ran". But the imam stayed as he believed "his life was only for God to take" and so the mosque was "the best place to take shelter".
An August 2018 report in Outlook noted that the clip went viral after the mosque authorities posted it on Facebook.
The Guardian also shared the video on its YouTube channel on August 6, 2018. It was titled, "Footage of an imam reciting evening prayers in Bali while a deadly earthquake struck the neighbouring island of Lombok has gone viral, with people praising him for his unwavering faith."
As per a New York Times report from August 6, 2018, this devastating earthquake claimed at least 98 lives and left at least 20,000 people homeless.
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