Japan is experiencing strong earthquakes, especially in waters southwest of the main island. While the government warned against the possibility of other strong earthquakes on Saturday, the authorities urge the public not to believe the unfounded predictions of the main disaster.
Recent seismic events have triggered rumors, especially from the 1999 comic book interpretations called “The Future I saw”.
Recent shocks and evacuation
On Thursday, an earthquake struck 5.5 Magnitude off the coast of Kyushho, the southernmost Japanese main island, followed by another 5.4 Magnitude on Saturday, Reuters reported.
These tremors, strong enough to make it difficult, were one of the more than 1,000 tremors on the islands of Kagoshim prefecture in the last two weeks.
From June 21 to June 27, up to 474 earthquakes were a hoarse chain with many active volcanoes in southern Japan, the National Meteorological Agency said on Thursday. While no major damage was reported, the inhabitants of the islands were asked to remain vigilant.
A total of 474 such earthquakes were observed around the Tokara Island chain, south of Kyushhu, said the Japanese meteorological agency (JMA). The strongest of the 474 earthquakes recorded were two size 5.1 tremors.
On Friday, the authorities took quick steps and evacuated some residents from distant islands as preventive measures.
What did the comic book predict?
When the tremory shook the nation, it caused rumors stemming from the prediction of the comic book that the main disaster would give Japan this month.
The details in the “future I saw” forced some travelers to avoid Japan because it predicted a catastrophic event on Saturday.
Ryo Tatsuki, an artist for mango, first published in 1999 and re -released in 2021, said he was not a “prophet” in his statement published by its publisher.
Impact on the travel industry
After the predictions were widely distributed, according to the latest data, tourists coming from Hong Kong were 11% of the same month of last year.
“With our current scientific knowledge, it is difficult to predict accurate time, place or extent of the earthquake,” said Ayataka Ebita, Earthquake Director and Tsunami monitoring at the Japanese agency, Tsunami Monitoring Division,
“We ask people to start their understanding of scientific evidence,” Ebit said at a press conference.
Japan was a tourist hotspot with record numbers of visitors this year, as April set a record monthly maximum of 3.9 million passengers.
The earthquake is a common occurrence in Japan, which falls into one of the most successful areas in the world. It represents about one fifth of a 6 -size 6 or higher earthquake, the press agency said.
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