The Japan government warned Saturday about more possible earthquakes in waters southwest of its main islands, but urged the public not to believe unfounded predictions of a great disaster.
The authorities evacuated some residents of remote islands near the epicenter of an earthquake of 5.5 magnitude of the tip of the main main island of Kyushu.
That earthquake on Thursday, strong enough to hinder the position, was one of the more than 1,000 tremors in the islands of Kagoshima Prefecture in the last two weeks that have driven rumors derived from a prediction of comics that an important disaster would see the country this month.
“With our current scientific knowledge, it is difficult to predict the exact place or scale of an earthquake,” said Ayataka Ebita, director of the earthquake monitoring division and Tsunami of the Japan weather agency, after an earthquake of 5.4 magnitudes of magnitude returned to the area.
“We ask people to base their understanding on scientific evidence,” Ebita told a press conference.
The manga, which some have interpreted as a prediction of a catastrophic event on Saturday, has taken some travelers to avoid Japan. Hong Kong arrivals, where rumors have circulated widely, fell 11% in May of the same month last year, according to the latest data.
Japan has had a record number of records this year, with April establishing a monthly record of 3.9 million travelers.
Ryo Tatsuki, the artist behind the manga “The future I saw”, published for the first time in 1999 and relaunched in 2021, said that “he was not a prophet”, in a statement issued by his editor.
The earthquakes are common in Japan, one of the most active areas in the world. It represents approximately one fifth of the earthquakes of 6 or more of the world.
