The government of Japan issued a warning on Saturday that there might be additional powerful earthquakes in the oceans southwest of its main islands. Still, it cautioned the people against placing too much faith in speculative forecasts of a catastrophic event. Off the tip of Kyushu’s southernmost major island, authorities evacuated some inhabitants from isolated islets near the epicentre of a 5.5-magnitude earthquake on Friday.
The Thursday earthquake, which was powerful enough to make standing challenging, was one of over 1,000 earthquakes that had rocked Kagoshima Prefecture’s islands in the last two weeks, stoking suspicions that a major tragedy will strike the nation this month, according to a comic book forecast.
A 5.4-magnitude earthquake rocked the region again on Saturday, prompting Ayataka Ebita, head of the Japan Meteorological Agency’s earthquake and tsunami monitoring section, to say, “With our current scientific knowledge, it’s difficult to predict the exact time, place, or scale of an earthquake.
Some travellers have decided to stay away from Japan because of the manga, which some have seen as prophesying a disastrous occurrence on Saturday. According to the most recent data, arrivals from Hong Kong, the source of the widely spread claims, decreased 11% in May compared to the same month the previous year.
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