Worrying report predicted record-breaking earthquake days before as tsunami warning placed for millions

It looks like someone actually predicted the Russia earthquake three whole days before it happened - and people are shocked.

For those not up to speed with the news, earlier today (July 30) one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off the country's Far East, sending tsunami waves into Japan, Hawaii and the US west coast.

It was centered about 75 miles from the Russian city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, and multiple aftershocks as strong as 6.9 magnitude followed.

Several people were injured during the natural disaster, but none seriously, and no major damage or casualties have been reported so far.

A tsunami height of 10 to 13ft was recorded in Kamchatka, 2ft on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, and 2 to 5ft in San Francisco, officials have confirmed.

Authorities warned earlier today that the risk from the 8.8 magnitude quake could last for hours, and millions of people who were potentially in the path of the waves were initially told to move away from the shore or seek high ground.

However, the danger now appears to be lessening in some places, with Hawaii and parts of Japan downgrading their warnings.

Authorities on Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula, near the quake’s epicenter, have also cancelled their tsunami warning.

However, alerts remain in place elsewhere in the world and Chile has upgraded its warning to the highest level for most of its lengthy Pacific coast, and said it was evacuating hundreds of people.

The quake was the strongest recorded since the 9.0 magnitude earthquake off north-eastern Japan in March 2011 - it was also the joint-sixth strongest quake ever recorded on Earth.

And now, an eerie tweet has resurfaced from three days ago, where an X (formerly Twitter) shared a screenshot from what looks like an earthquake map app.

It showed a series of orange and red dots around the Russian area that would later be struck, reportedly highlighting smaller quakes that occurred beforehand.

The woman behind the social media post, Sarah Malcangi, wrote next to the worrying map: “Hardly anyone is talking about how many earthquakes have occurred in this area of Russia for several days.”

As the tweet gained more traction following the events of today, shocked people have flocked to the replies.

One person wrote: “And obviously we SHOULD have been talking about them, given tonight’s 8.8.”

Another added: “They are now that an 8.7 magnitude earthquake has struck.”

Meanwhile, others chimed in with: “Well they are now” and “Wow you saw this coming”.

Someone else penned: “Wow 3 days in advance” and another said: “It seems that your suspicions were right when you paid attention to these successive earthquakes!”

“YOU ARE A PROPHET,” wrote another astonished person, while someone else added: “You called it Sarah!!!”

However, another user pointed out: “They're called foreshocks, and they're not abnormal.”

According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) foreshocks are earthquakes that precede larger earthquakes in the same location.

However, an earthquake cannot be identified as a foreshock until after a larger earthquake in the same area occurs.

Either way - the tweet is pretty cryptic given the events of the past 24 hours.