Amid these calamities, eerie prophecies have resurfaced, including those by famous mystics like Baba Vanga and Nostradamus.

Richard de Gottal, from Worthing, said surviving the tsunami in Thailand had left him with an ... unwittingly missing the first of the two tsunamis which hit the island that morning.

Sadly, the 2004 tsunami showed up this lack all too well in the Indian Ocean. In Thailand, for example, seismologists knew early on how big the quake was and that it probably spawned a big tsunami.

A7.7 magnitude earthquake has shaken Myanmar and has been strongly felt in other countries such as Thailand and China ... is there a real risk of a tsunami in Myanmar after what happened?