An email has been circulating in the cyberworld warning that there will a devastating Tsunami cause by an Earthquake induced by a Solar Eclipse on 22 July 2009. The tsunami will hit China, Japan, Korean Peninsula, Australia, India and South East Asian countries.

It is true that a Solar Eclipse will occur on 22 July, but there is no correlation between an earthquake and an eclipse according to experts.

Professor Kerry Sieh, from Singapore, said: “In the last 110 years or so, there have been about 85 really big earthquakes — 8 (on the Richter magnitude scale) or greater. And only two of those occurred on the same day as an eclipse. And even those were a partial eclipse, not a total eclipse. They struck in a different place from where the eclipse happened.”

Scientists who have been spending their whole lives studying earthquakes and tsunamis still could not successfully predict when and where one will occur.

Wonder who has managed to successfully predict the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and the subsequent Asian Tsunami?

Although the email has no strong scientific basis, Research does show that parts of Asia facing the Pacific Ocean could be hit by a tsunami.

Although we should be vigilant of our surroundings, we should not help to spread such news without any scientific basis.

The best solution is to constantly aware of our surroundings especially observing animals behavior on a daily basis.

Samantha

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