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Myanmar: TikTok astrologer arrested for predicting new earthquake

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John Moe The posted his prediction on 9 April , just two weeks after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake killed 3,500 people.

He warned that an earthquake would "hit every city in Myanmar " on 21 April .

Experts say earthquakes are impossible to predict due to the complexity of the factors involved in such disasters.

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