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Time of India
a day ago
- Time of India
Baba Vanga's July 5 Prediction Sparks Panic After 500+ Earthquakes Rock Japan
500 earthquakes have shook the Tokara Islands after a popular manga with an eerie history of prophecies predicted a devastating super earthquake would strike Japan on July 5, 2025. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now This is one of the most terrifying predictions has ever been made by someone in advance. Now, keeping the current situation in the mind, people are now more scared by seeing this current scenario and considering the predictions as reality. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) reports nearly 500 tremors have rattled a remote island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan since Saturday. We can consider it as fortunate thing that no significant damage has been reported so far despite the ongoing tremors on the Tokara Islands, which are south of Kyushu. Since Saturday morning, there has been an increase in seismic activity on Kodakarajima Island in the Tokara Islands chain, according to Japan's Meteorological Agency. Why Japan encounter frequent Tremors? The Pacific "Ring of Fire," which includes Japan, is made up of four main tectonic plates. Approximately 1,500 earthquakes occur in the country each year as a result, accounting for about 18% of all earthquakes globally. Most of them are minor, but some can be very harmful depending on where and how deep they are. Expert Opinion: Interpreting the Alarming Signs According to Yokose, a specialist on marine volcanoes stated that there is a probability of an earthquake up to magnitude 6. For the next week or so, folks should be on high alert, he warns. Yokose emphasized that this wave of minor earthquakes is not a sign of a catastrophic occurrence, such as a mega-quake like the one that occurred in the Nankai Trough. He claims that the geological processes that cause the tremors on the Kagoshima islands are completely distinct from those that would cause a huge earthquake off the Pacific coast of Japan. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Mass Anxiety Spreads Amid Shocking Predictions and Events The public across the nation is in fear and it is growing day by day as July 5 is coming near. People are now believing that the predictions made by Ryo Tatsuki might come true in the near future as the earthquake continue. We must mention here that according to Ryo Tatsuki, a famous manga artist had predicted in her book " The Future I Saw" about the catastrophic event that will strike Japan o0n July 5. Additionally, in that book she talks about cities falling into the ocean, boiling water, enormous bubbles, and a mega-tsunami that was more powerful than the one that struck Tohoku in 2011. Disclaimer: Now, this can be an alarming situation for all the people living in Japan or nearby areas and they must take precautions before this disaster happens. People are advised to stay alert and they should keep themselves updated with the current news..!!
Yomiuri Shimbun
3 days ago
- Science
- Yomiuri Shimbun
Over 300 Earthquakes Rumble in Sea Off Kagoshima Pref. Islands, Putting Residents on Alert
The sea off the Tokara Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture was hit with 336 earthquakes measuring at least a 1 on the Japanese seismic scale from Saturday to 5 p.m. Tuesday, according to a regional branch of the Japan Meteorological Agency. Six of the earthquakes measured a 4 on the Japanese seismic scale, which goes as high as 7. Experts have suggested that even larger quakes could occur, and the agency's Fukuoka regional headquarters is calling for people in the area to stay on the alert against earthquakes with strong shaking. Tremors in the sea near the islands grew more frequent after 8 p.m. on Saturday, according to the regional headquarters. The largest quake over the period struck on Sunday afternoon and registered a magnitude of 5.1. There have been as many as 15 quakes per hour. On Tuesday, at 2:23 a.m. and again at 4:04 p.m., shaking measuring a 4 on the Japanese seismic scale was felt on Akusekijima Island in the prefecture's village of Toshima. The sea near the Tokara Islands has been the source of many prior earthquakes. In December 2021, tremors measuring 1 or higher on the Japanese seismic scale struck 308 times. On Dec. 9, 2021, a quake measuring a 5 on the seismic scale hit Akusekijima Island, forcing 30 residents to evacuate to Kagoshima City and to Hisayoshi Yokose, an associate professor at Kumamoto University specializing in marine volcanology, near the islands the Philippine Sea Plate is subducted beneath another tectonic plate connected to the Asian continent. This geology tends to cause a buildup of tension that results in earthquakes. Yokose thinks the recent quakes have occurred inside the continental plate. 'Past trends show that even bigger earthquakes occur after seismic activity subsides,' he said. The area where the quakes have occurred is part of a volcanic cluster that stretches from the Kirishima mountain range, in Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures, to Io-Torishima Island in Okinawa Prefecture. Junichi Nakajima, a Tokyo Institute of Technology professor in seismology, suggested that magma may have cooled when rising through the ground and water in that magma may have seeped out, making the fault prone to slippage. On Sunday, Mt. Shinmoedake, part of the Kirishima mountains, erupted for the first time in seven years. However, the volcano, which rises to a height of 1,421 meters, lies at a distance from the Tokara Islands. 'I don't think it had any effect' on the earthquakes, Nakajima said. As of Sunday, 667 residents were living on seven remote islands in Toshima. 'You never know when a big quake will come. It reminds me of the one that we had four years ago that registered a 5 on the seismic scale,' said a 34-year-old man running a minshuku bed and breakfast on Akusekijima Island. Since Monday, students have been commuting to a school on the island were wearing helmets. Some of the children have reportedly said they cannot sleep at night. 'We'll try to relieve their concerns as much as we can,' said the school's principal.
