A self-styled earthquake predictor is warning of a magnitude seven, eight or nine quake hitting the planet between now and May 12.

‘Quake mystic’ Frank Hoogerbeets has issued an online "major earthquake warning" amid fears a "big one" is on its way, claiming it could also cause a tsunami.

Mr Hoogerbeets, who is based in the Netherlands, uses a non-scientifically recognised way of predicting earthquakes based on planetary alignments with Earth.

He wrote on his website ditrianum.org: "On May 9 2017, three planetary alignments converge, one of which is Earth-Mercury-Uranus.

"It will be the third time this year that these three planets align; the previous two caused a 6.6 and a 6.9 magnitude earthquake respectively.

"The other alignments around the 9th are Mars-Venus-Saturn and Mars-Sun-Mercury.

"This convergence is also close to Full Moon (May 10).