Who is the geologist who “predicted” the earthquake in Turkey 48 hours before through a premonitory tweet, what is the reason for his shocking analysis?

A Dutch researcher and his tweet about an earthquake, published just 72 hours before the fury of tectonic plate movements will ravage Turkey and Syriawent viral and have once again put on the table of scientists -and the whole world- the issue of whether or not earthquakes can be predicted.

It has always been heard that an earthquake is not anticipated but what happened to Frank Hoogerbeets it is impressive.

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What did the geologist tweet?

“Sooner or later there will be a ~M 7.5 #earthquake (earthquake) in this region (central-southern Turkey, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon).”

That was said on February 3, 2023 by this man who already has 1,126,530 followers on Twitter.

The European press presents him as “the geologist who advanced” what happened shortly before dawn on Monday, February 6 between Turkey and Syria.

Since the first powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.7 (7.8 according to United States measurements) aftershocks of all kinds of intensity have not stopped. Nor does the painful death toll increase.

For the morning of this Wednesday, February 8, there are more than 11,200 fatalities, reports the AFP agency.

Who is the geologist who “predicted” the earthquake in Turkey?

Frank Hoogerbeets, in his Twitter bio, introduces himself as: Researcher for the Solar System Geometry Survey (SSGEOS) and says he has “great respect for the planets, especially the Earth.”

From the SSGEOS, following Hoogerbeets’ controversial tweet, according to Open Sky News also noted: “Larger seismic activity may occur on February 4-6, most likely up to medium or high magnitude 6. There is a small chance of a larger seismic event around February 4.”

Knowing the seismic catastrophe, the same researcher regretted what happened but maintained the firmness of his tweet.

“My heart goes out to all those affected. by the big earthquake in central Turkey. As I said before, sooner or later this would happen in this region, similar to the years 115 and 526. EThese earthquakes are always preceded for a critical planetary geometry, as we had on February 4 and 5”.

Planetary geometry?

The last part of the tweet is powerfully striking: “Earthquakes are preceded by critical planetary geometry like the one on 4/5Feb.”

The SSGEOS, adds Open Sky News, “works on the monitoring of the geometry between the celestial bodies and the Earth. Then they relate it to seismic activity.”

For Hoogerbeets, “earthquakes are affected by planetary alignments.”

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And NASA, what does it say?

For the US space agency, an earthquake “is an intense tremor of the earth’s surface caused by movements in the upper layer of the Earth.”

The movement of plates -which is constant- “causes pressure in the Earth’s crust and when it increases too much it results in huge cracks called faults. The movement of the tectonic plates also produces displacements in the faults. An earthquake is a sudden movement of the earth’s crust located on a fault.

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According to the United States Geological Survey, reports Open Sky News, “earthquakes cannot be completely predicted.”

differences

For La Nación, Carmen Solana, a professor at the University of Portsmouth, maintains: “We know which are the most dangerous areas, we know that they have a greater probability of suffering an earthquake, but it is not possible to know exactly when it will occur.

Turkey is a country that has been extensively studied in seismic terms, but even in Japan or the United States, which are still advanced, they do not know when the next earthquake will occur,” Solana explained to the aforementioned medium. (YO)

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