A self-declared Taiwanese “prophet” Tuesday began the countdown for what he said would be a massive earthquake as workers transferred tonnes of bottled water and other essential commodities to temporary shelters.
The closing countdown has ongoing” Wang Chao-hung, better identified to his devotees and the people as “Teacher Wang”, told AFP in the innermost Taiwanese town of Puli, home to about 80,000 people.
The 54-year-old believed a 14-magnitude destroyer earthquake would hit the island at 10:42:37 Wednesday morning (0242 GMT), killing more than one hundred thousand people. It will have massive results for various countries near the Pacific,” Wang said. After five days, the island, jointly with many fractions of the Pacific parts, will be strike by a tsunami featuring 170-metre (560-foot) waves, he warned.
In prospects of these catastrophic incidents, he has built up a shelter in Puli, changing at least 30 cargo containers into temporary homes, storing them with substantial rice, packed bottle water and fuel to last for many weeks.
As of late Tuesday, it was not obvious whether Wang had convinced anybody to shift into the containers, but the otherwise silence town had concerned dozens of news reporters, some of them reporting directly from the area.
Wang has directed people to live in cargo containers, which he says will be secured as compared to ordinary buildings once the suspected disaster occurred.
The forecast, which has resulted prevalent media consideration over the past week, has driven prosecutors to begin an inquiry into a suspected deceit case.
Prosecutors are evaluating into the speculations that Wang might be obliging with the businessmen relating to the container industry, a charge he has absolutely refused.
Fraud certainty carry a utmost five-year jail term while violating the law on social order is punished by a fine of up to Tw$30,000 ($1,000), investigators say.
A spokesman of weather bureau has said that “issuing unofficial predictions on earthquakes is punishable by a fine” of up to Tw$1 million ($33,000
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