earthquake tonight?

There’s a wave of text and online messages that there will be an earthquake in PI tonight between 10pm and midnight with intensity of 6.8.

I understand that if there’s an earthquake in a nearby country, there’s a big possibility of an earthquake here. Very much like stacked up plates, when you pull out one plate from underneath, all the other plates will be nudged or moved.

What I don’t understand is people could predict the time of an earthquake hours before it happens? I think earthquakes can be predicted only about an hour before. Plus, we could observe that animals will be very restless.

To be honest, I’m trying to be logical here but I’m still in some sort of panic for Pinoys. Tsk, tsk.