Dutch scientist Frank Hogrebits, who raised a lot of controversy about two weeks ago about the movement of earthquakes and their connection to the movement of planets and the changes that occur in space, still blows up surprises, amid the vigorous follow-up by millions around the world of his tweets.
In his most recent tweets, he turned his attention this time to Istanbul, speaking of the possibility of a “big earthquake”.
He replied, in response to a question asked by one of the tweets, about the expectations that a new earthquake will hit Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey: “It is very difficult to determine the time frame, but I hope that we will be able to determine it before the earthquake occurs.”
He also explained, saying in another tweet: “If the positioning of the planets is as clear as it was before the 1999 Izmit earthquake, then the warning of a major earthquake will be valid!”
The mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, issued an urgent appeal to the residents a few days ago, warning against unstable buildings. And he said in a tweet on his Twitter account: I am going to the residents of Istanbul, let’s examine the structures of dangerous buildings. He also noted at the time that so far only 29,000 building owners out of 107,000 buildings built before 1999 have agreed to scan.
This came after a number of seismologists confirmed that a massive earthquake is likely to strike in the coming years (by 2030) Istanbul, which officially includes 16 million people, and which is estimated to have a population of 20 million by 2030, especially as it is located on the northern edge. One of the main fault lines in the country.
It is noteworthy that the city was subjected to a devastating 7.6-magnitude earthquake that struck its eastern suburbs in 1999, killing more than 17,000 people.
