New Delhi, July 5 -- More than 1,000 earthquakes in a small southern island of Japan and a 1990s manga comic's "megaquake" have fueled premonitions about a major disaster waiting to befall the country this month.

However, earthquakes can't be predicted with today's science and technology, and so, meteorological experts have urged people to "base their understanding on scientific evidence."

Frenzy erupted on social media, with netizens exclaiming, "A manga artist predicted that a massive earthquake would hit Japan at 4:18 am on July 5th and Japan would be destroyed. It's now 4:30 am in Japan and nothing has happened."

Since June 21, as many as 1,031 earthquakes have rattled the Tokara island chain south of the Kyushu region ...