An astrologer was jailed by Myanmar police for inciting fear by foretelling a new earthquake in a TikTok video that went viral.
John Moe The made his prediction on April 9, two weeks after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake in the South East Asian nation destroyed centuries-old monuments and killed 3,500 people.
His “false statements with the intention of causing public panic” led to his detention on Tuesday, according to Myanmar’s information ministry.
Moe, John An earthquake was predicted to “hit every city in Myanmar” on April 21. However, scientists claim that because of the intricacy of the variables involved, earthquakes are impossible to forecast.
