Earthquake Fact Check: After the prediction of Dutch researcher Frank Hoogerbeets about the devastating earthquake in Turkey-Syria came true, discussion is going on on social media that there is a possibility of earthquake in Pakistan, India and South Asian region. The baseless predictions about earthquake in Pakistan made people panic. After the earthquake prediction, a video of Dutch ‘seismologist’ Frank Hoogerbeets was tweeted, pointing to possible areas where seismic activity is likely to occur, including Pakistan, Afghanistan and India.
Huggerbeats is being praised online for accurately predicting earthquakes in Syria and Turkey. Since then, social media and WhatsApp users have been sharing videos of Dutch researchers predicting possible earthquakes in India and Pakistan. Scientists have criticized organizations such as Hugbeats and SSGEOS for their erroneous and unscientific approach. He said that it is impossible to predict an earthquake. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said on its website that neither USGS nor any other scientist has ever predicted a major earthquake.
Predictions and speculations dismissed
USGS scientists said that we do not know nor expect to know how an earthquake will occur anytime in the near future. USGS scientists say they can only calculate the probability that a significant earthquake will occur in a certain area within a certain number of years. However, the director of the Pakistan Metrological (Weather) Department (PMD) has dismissed predictions and speculations about earthquakes in Pakistan. Talking to a private TV channel, PMD director said that there is no similarity between Turkey and Pakistan fault line.
no scientific basis
The PMD official said that there is no scientific basis for earthquake predictions. Pakistan has its own modern surveillance system which is monitoring the aftershocks in Turkey and Syria. He said that two-thirds of Pakistan’s population lives on the fault line. They concluded that the earthquakes of 2005 and 2013 caused huge casualties to the country, which meanwhile, the death toll in Turkey and Syria is around 40 thousand, as the death toll is increasing with each passing hour. .
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