All Blog Posts Tagged 'earthquakes' (2)

Updated June 23, 2010 08:31:17 ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA

Spreading rumours that Fiji will be hit by a disaster today has landed the head of the country's Rugby Union in police custody.



Bill Gavoka was taken in by police after sending e-mails to tourist operators about a "prophecy" made by a pastor in Nadi about earthquakes and waves hitting Fiji at 2.30pm local time today.



A prominent church leader has…

Updated June 23, 2010 16:38:32 ABC Radio Pacific Beat

In Fiji today at 2.30 pm local time, nothing happened. Ordinarily, that wouldn't exactly make the news, but the nation had been told via a prophecy by a church minister in Nadi that Fiji would be struck by earthquakes and tsunamis today at that precise time.



Such was the level of concern by the government at the effect this was having that the head of the…