Man predicts New Zealand earthquake days before it happens
A Facebook post of a man who warned the world about the New Zealand earthquake eight days before it took place is doing the rounds on social media.
Nigel Gray took to Facebook to warn people to prepare for a ‘major earthquake’ that will hit New Zealand.
However, scientists have slammed Gray’s prediction as a mere coincidence, saying there is no evidence linking supermoons with earthquakes, NZ Herald reported.
GNS Science seismologist Dr John Ristau told the publication: "In this part of the world, If you think of New Zealand, going all the way up to Samoa and Fiji and off to the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu and all these places, and even including the Philippines in the south Pacific, a 7.8 [magnitude earthquake] you could probably find one at least every year that happens somewhere in the region. So it's really just a coincidence that it happened at the same time as the moon."
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Meanwhile, videos of mysterious green and blue flashes that appeared during the quake are also doing the rounds on the internet. See one of the videos below.