Taiwan doomsday prophet's blog sparks panic

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Source: BBC

Police in Taiwan are investigating a self-proclaimed prophet whose doomsday warnings on a blog have caused panic.

The man, identifying himself as Teacher Wang, said Taiwan would be struck by a magnitude-14 earthquake and 170m (560ft) high tsunami on 11 May.

More than 100 cargo containers have been bought and set up in a mountainous area of central Taiwan.

Police said they were investigating if the man had conspired with a container business to defraud people.

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[MineralMan]

1. If there was ever a magnitude 14 earthquake, it wouldn't just

be Taiwan that would be in peril. Truly, the entire planet would be shaking. It's an exponential scale, not a linear one. Add five zeros to the power and destruction caused by the latest Japanese earthquake. A magnitude 14 earthquake would be a million times more powerful.

But, the guy's selling cargo containers, it seems.

[Cal33]

4. Yes. I thought I've read that a magnitude 10 earthquake was the largest

earthquake possible. What schemes people don't invent to
cheat others out of their money!!!

[AndyTiedye]

2. A Shipping Container as Protection for a magnitude 14 Quake and 170m Tsunami?

If I thought something like that was coming I'd get outta Dodge. Way out.

[uppityperson]

6. With windows and air conditioning!

[xfundy]

3. One word:

Duct tape!

OK, that's two words.

Gullible!

That's the word, and did you know it's not even in the dictionary?

[uppityperson]

5. "Workers had been hired to fit them with doors, windows and air conditioning"

Seems alot of money for only a few days, assuming there won't be any power after a mag 14 quake and your windows would probably all break too.