In March 2023, the world will face a mega-earthquake. Such a forecast was made by seismologist from the Netherlands, Frank Hoogerbits, who also predicted the recent powerful earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. This is stated in the video distributed by the SSGEOS Scientific Institute (Solar System Geometry Survey), where Hoogerbits works.
According to him, the earthquake may affect areas of Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands, reports NSN.
According to Hugerbits, the convergence of the planets in March may lead to a very large seismic activity during this period. The magnitude of the tremors will be more than 7 or 8, reports the TV channel "360".
"I'm not exaggerating. I'm not trying to sow fear. This is just a warning," stated the scientist.
According to the seismologist, powerful tremors are possible in 12 locations around the planet. Greece, Indonesia, Pakistan, Portugal, part of North America, the Philippines and Japan also fall within the risk zone of Russia.
Chairman of the Kamchatka Branch of the Russian Expert Council on Earthquake Forecasting, Seismic Hazard and Risk Assessment (KF RES) Danila Chebrov commented on the Hugerbitts' forecast. He noted that strong earthquakes in Kamchatka are possible, they have been in the past and will continue to occur in the future.
At the same time Chebrov says that he personally and the scientific community feel skepticism towards Hugerbits and his activity and do not consider him a professional seismologist, but an amateur seismologist.
First, the author publishes forecasts on his own website and in social networks, but he has no scientific publications.
Secondly, the information about Hugerbits's methodology of forecasts is given at his website fragmentarily, so there is no possibility to evaluate their effectiveness.
As for the last forecast, Hugerbits builds it on the basis of the motion of celestial bodies of the solar system. According to Chebrov, there is such a connection, but it is rather weak, and it is difficult to use it as the main prognostic sign.
Before that, on February 6, there were powerful earthquakes in the Turkish province of Kahramanmaraş in the southeast of the country near the Syrian border with a magnitude of 7.7. After that occurred dozens of earthquakes, but with magnitude less, and it was reported that was recorded about 10 thousand aftershocks in different regions of the country.
According to the latest data the number of deaths in Turkey exceeded 45 thousand people. In Syria killed more than 5.8 thousand people.