Ryo Tatsuki, a former manga artist known for her purportedly accurate disaster predictions, has forecasted a mega-tsunami to occur in July 2025. She describes visions of the sea south of Japan "boiling," which she interprets as signs of an underwater volcanic explosion leading to a tsunami three times larger than the one in 2011. This prediction has gained attention, though it lacks scientific substantiation.
The disaster may be natural or man-made. Examples that would count include passenger plane crashes, tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes, etc.
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3.00@Tripping I feel like if it making front page news of a major U.S. publication is a pretty reasonable benchmark. . . . . maybe there should also be like some fatality number too, just because I could almost imagine the evacuating of a small island becoming front page news because of the Prediction.
@Tripping I would count the Noto earthquake, as it was featured on the front page of the NYT prominently
https://www.nytimes.com/issue/todayspaper/2024/01/02/todays-new-york-times
@nikki the problem with using "front page" as a metric is that what news makes the front page is heavily dependent on what else is news that day. On slow news days it's much easier for fairly minor 'disasters' to make it