'Japan's Baba Vanga' predicted today's earthquake and tsunami horror years ago
A psychic dubbed Japan's Baba Vanga appears to have predicted today's tsunami chaos following the 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Russia.
Tsunami warnings are in place and mass evacuations are underway after the quake hit Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. Authorities declared a state of emergency on the Kuril islands. They earlier reported several tsunami waves flooded the fishing port of Severokurilsk, the main city on the islands, and cut power supplies to the area. Russian authorities said tsunami waves topping 9.8ft hit Severokurilsk.
Ryo Tatsuki, a comic artist and mystic, appears to have predicted the tsunamis currently unfolding. Previously, she was said to have foreseen the deaths of Freddie Mercury and Princess Diana as well as natural disasters like the Kobe earthquake in 2011. It comes after the 'UK's most dangerous plant' left toddler in A&E with second-degree burns.
Ms Tatsuki, has been compared to Baba Vanga, the famous Bulgarian mystic, whose real name was Vangeliya Pandeva Gushterova. Vanga died at the age of 84 in 1996 having become famous for her clairvoyance. She claimed to have gained her powers during a terrible storm, when she lost her eyesight at 12 years old.
Ms Tatsuki's book The Future as I See It, published in 1999, described an 'unknown virus' in 2020, leading many people to believe she correctly predicted Covid. And four years ago Ms Tatsuki published an updated version of her book in which she said the seas around southern Japan would "boil" on on July 5, 2025. Although she seems to have been a few days out, her predictions have resurfaced again today.
Fear of another big earthquake in Japan has been building for years with the country sitting on a seismic fault line. Japan experiences around 1,500 noticeable earthquakes each year, according to the EarthScope Consortium and JRailPass.com. These earthquakes occur daily, though many are too small to be felt.
The most recent major earthquake in Japan was on March 11, 2011 with a 9.0 magnitude force - which was also predicted by Ms Tatsuki. It caused a massive tsunami that claimed thousands of lives and led to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
CN Yuen, managing director of WWPKG, a travel agency based in Hong Kong, told CNN that bookings to Japan dropped by half during the Easter holiday. Visitors from China and Hong Kong, which are Japan's second and fourth biggest source of tourists, have dropped significantly. In Thailand and Vietnam posts online warning of earthquake danger have been gaining traction.
The impact of her latest prediction is also being felt in South Korea and Taiwan, according to Bloomberg Intelligence. It used ForwardKeys data to gauge the impact on airline bookings and found that average bookings from Hong Kong were down 50% year-on-year. Flights between late June and early July had plummeted by as much as 83%.
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