Myanmar authorities have arrested an astrologer for causing panic by predicting a new earthquake in a viral TikTok video. John Moe The posted his prediction on 9 April, just two weeks after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake killed 3,500 people and destroyed centuries-old temples in the South East Asian nation.

John Moe, an astrologist who had an account on TikTok with over 3,00,000 followers, claimed that an earthquake would hit Myanmar two weeks after the deadly earthquake that killed 3500 people in the country.