Today (Saturday), the Japanese government warned of the possibility of stronger earthquakes in the south -west of the main islands of the country, but it urged residents not to believe in unreasonable expectations of a major disaster.
Yesterday (Friday) the authorities postponed some residents of remote islands near the earthquake in 5.5 magistrates from the main island of Kyusha in the far south of Japan.
The earthquake that occurred on Thursday was one of more than a thousand earthquakes on the islands of Kagosima over the past two weeks. These earthquakes caused rumors caused by expectations published by a comic magazine that a major disaster would appear in the country this month.
After a new earthquake with power at 5.4 degrees today (Saturday), Iatak Ebita, director of the seismic monitoring department and tsunami in the Japanese meteorological agency, said: “Our current scientific knowledge (emphasizes) the complexity of forecasting the time, place or size of a particular earthquake.” He added: “We ask people to rely on their understanding of scientific evidence.”
The expectations that some interpret as the threatening emergence of today’s disaster (Saturday) prompted some to avoid a trip to Japan. The latest data showed that the number of arriving from Hong Kong, since the rumors spread widely, fell 11 percent in May compared to the same month of last year.
This year, Japan recorded a large number of visitors, since April was a witness to a monthly record of 3.9 million passengers.
“The future that I saw”, which was published for the first time in 1999 and was published in 2021, said in a statement published by a publishing house related to the magazine that it is “not a prophet”.
Earthquakes are common in Japan, and this is one of the most analog regions in the world, since it records about the fifth earthquake with a force of 6 degrees or more at the level of the globe.
