London, Europe Brief News- Dutch seismologist Frank Hoogerbeets said the world could be hit by another major earthquake in the coming days.
Just to recall that Hoogerbeets gained international fame after predicting devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria last month.
The first week of March will be “extremely critical”, says the Dutch seismologist. Hoogerbeets, who makes his forecasts based on the movements of celestial bodies, posted a video on YouTube on Monday warning that “the first week of March will be extremely critical”.
“A convergence of critical planetary geometry around 2 and 5 March may result in large to very large seismic activity, possibly even a mega-thrust earthquake around 3-4 March and/or 6-7 March”, it is stated in the description of the clip.
The affected area could stretch for thousands of kilometers, from the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Kuril Islands in the Russian Far East, all the way to the Philippines and Indonesia, Hoogerbeets said.
The head of the Kamchatka branch of Geophysical Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Danila Chebrov, questioned Hoogerbeets’ predictions and described him as an “amateur”.
The connection between the motion of planets in the solar system and seismic activity on Earth “is quite weak, and it is problematic to use it as a main prognostic tool,” Chebrov explained.
On February 3, Hoogerbeets posted a tweet that read: “Sooner or later a magnitude 7.5 earthquake will occur in this region (South Central Turkey, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon).” Three days later, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Turkey and Syria. The disaster caused the death of more than 50,000 people, and strong aftershocks continue in the region to this day.
