Hello . Was surfing the net and came across a particular email .
It is regarding the impending tsunami rumoured to be occuring on the 22nd of July 2009 .

The email includes a diagram and a message :

Hello there. I just wanted 2 let you know that please stay away from the beaches all around in the month of July. There is a prediction that there will be another tsunami hitting on July 22nd. It is also when there will be sun eclipse. Predicted that it is going 2 be really bad and countries like Malaysia (Sabah & Sarawak), Singapore, Maldives, Australia, Mauritius, Si Lanka, India, Indonesia, Philippines are going 2 be badly hit. Please try and stay away from the beaches in July. Better 2 be safe than sorry. Please pass the word around. Please also pray for all beings.




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Apparently , as convincing as the email and diagram may seem , it is just a hoax .

This heads-up about impending disaster, often titled "July 22nd 2009 another Tsunami," began circulating on the Internet in April 2009 . It was taken from an unknown person's blog post .

The blog post theorizes that a solar eclipse occurring on 22 July 2009 will sufficiently affect gravitational pull so as to cause tectonic plates to "pop a seam," therefore resulting in a sizeable earthquake in Japan and causing a subsequent tsunami of devastating proportions .
A tsunami is a large ocean wave caused by sudden motion on the ocean floor. It is often brought about by an earthquake , a volcanic eruption or underwater landslide .

However , earthquakes are not caused by gravitational pull , so set your mind at ease about the possibility of an eclipse's prompting the ground to shake . Earthquakes , in other words , have nothing to do with gravitational pull but rather where fault lines are and movement of the tectonic plates .

Says Kate Hutton, a seismologist at the California Institute of Technology (better known as Caltech): "Earthquakes are caused by the accumulation of strain in the [Earth's] crust due to the motion of tectonic plates. Most hypocenters (the place where the quake starts, directly below the epicenter) occur at least five miles below the surface, for large quakes."

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Therefore , i supposed and hope that there will be nothing to worry about .
:)

Cya people .