Director NSMC rejects earthquake predictions circulating on social media

Director NSMC rejects earthquake predictions circulating on social media!

National Seismic Monitoring Centre (NSMC) Director Zahid Rafi on Wednesday rejecting the predictions of an impending earthquake in Pakistan, said that earthquakes are a natural phenomenon and no one can know in advance when they will strike.

“If the earthquake was known in advance, there would not have been so much loss of life and property in Turkey,” the NSMC chief stressed.

Talking to Geo News, the director asserted that mild tremors were nothing new in the country.

“Mild quakes occur in Pakistan and will continue to happen,” he said adding that there was no similarity between the fault lines in Turkey and Pakistan.

The director rejected the predictions that an earthquake like that which has recently shaken Turkey and Syria, was in the offing in Pakistan over the next few days.

The statement comes in wake of the reports doing round on social media based on Researcher Frank Hoger-Bates’s claims.

Bates from the Netherlands predicted a major earthquake in the region a few days ago in his tweet and Now posts of earthquake predictions in Pakistan and India were going viral on social media