First, a recap on the Akita prophecy given in an apparition to Japanese Sister Agnes Sasagawa:

"October 13, 1973:

'My dear daughter, listen well to what I have to say to you. You will inform your superior.'

After a short silence:

'As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one will never seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead...'" [link to www.ewtn.com (secure)]