Japan and Asia survived this Saturday to the apocalyptic predictions of the mangaka Ryo Tatsuki, who predicted – without any scientific foundation – the occurrence of a violent tsunami. It is just as likely that no tidal wave will switch to Nice and the Mediterranean coast on Thursday. Despite this rumor of an imminent threat which, for several days, has flooded social networks.
On the faith of a mysterious seer, “One of the most serious in Europe” (sic), who would have already seen the epidemic of “Covid and the Xynthia storm”several accounts relay alarmist videos. Predicting what turns out to be unpredictable: a tsunami devastating Nice but also Fréjus, Monaco or Marseille and Sète.
Official denial in Tunisia
The rumor was not confined to this side of the Mediterranean. To the point, report our colleagues from Tunisia’s pressthat the weather and climate observatory of this country had to split a press release to deny any imminent threat. However, it is clearly dated in several of these videos that have become viral on social networks. July 10 … Day of the next full moon, it goes without saying!
False distributions of armbands and swimming prohibitions
“Man speaks of liquid anger, a real curtain of cosmic water”quips, on Tiktok, the Boftv account which derives these apocalyptic predictions that the parodic account attributes to … Francis Lalanne. One more fake. Just like the thousands of calls that the authorities would have received forcing the public authorities to “Distribute armbands to the entire population and ban swimming over the knee”.
Humor is undoubtedly the best of the answers to this rumor without any scientific foundation. Except that in Japan, it makes economic actors cough. Because in the land of the rising sun, the similar prediction of the famous Manga Ryo Tatsuki Manga author had a real impact. In her last comic, she announced that “The ocean floor between Japan and the Philippines” was going to fracture on July 5.
If the sea has not swept as it had announced, the tourist flow, it was seriously dried up at the start of the season. According to the newspaper The world, “The department of Tottori (southwest) noted in May a drop of almost 50% of reservations from Hong Kong.”
