Posted on 07/23/2018 7:28:53 PM PDT by BBell
We’re not saying that every time your cat does something weird it’s a signal of an impending natural disaster, but you might want to start paying attention.
Because, as this security footage shows, cats apparently have a sense for that kind of thing.
This footage was take at the Cat Café Catchy in Japan, when an earthquake struck Osaka in June.
Moments before the café started to shake, the cats seem to react to a loud noise or a thump.
They jolt awake, looking around as if expecting to see what woke them from their naps.
Then the building begins to shake, causing panic among the cats.
The vision was posted online by the Cat cafe catchy YouTube channel two weeks ago, clocking up nearly 230,000 views since.
Animals predicting things like earthquakes and tsunamis is well-known in folklore.
A post by experts at the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program could very well explain what happened in the video above.
“We can easily explain the cause of unusual animal behaviour seconds before humans feel an earthquake,” an program spokesperson said.
“Very few humans notice the smaller P wave that travels the fastest from the earthquake source and arrives before the larger S wave.
“But many animals with more keen senses are able to feel the P wave seconds before the S wave arrives.
“As for sensing an impending earthquake days or weeks before it occurs, that's a different story.”
But scientists aren’t able to say if animals’ unusual behaviour a few days before an earthquake are expressions of “early warning signs” of a disaster.
A study from Heiko Woith, Gesa M. Petersen, Sebastian Hainzl and Torsten Dahm published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America last month suggests evidence is… shaky.
They said the data – reports of animals acting funny – was “often only anecdotal and retrospective”.
However, that doesn’t mean they’re not valid.
“The probability density of foreshocks and the occurrence of animal precursors are strikingly similar, suggesting that at least parts of the reported animal precursors are in fact related to foreshocks,” they said.
We always had to take the dogs on trips. The cats? Leave in the basement with food,water and litter boxes. We did have some cats that went camping with us.
Exhibit A.
Japs are Martians? Who knew....
Cat intuition...
Cats are hella smart. They are manipulative also.
Scare.dee.cats!
At the time, I was standing on a concrete floor -- and the P wave slapped the soles of my feet as if someone had hit them with a sledgehammer.
My work partner barely had time to say, "Earthquake!!" when the S (shear) wave hit and things started swaying from side to side.
Yep, it was the P (compressive) wave that woke the cats; the earthquake was just farther away... And, the S-waves really rattled their cages...
“I was in my room and they came in creeping and close to the ground.”
Not sure why but LOL at that imagery! :) The one time that I know of us having a quake around these parts was a rare night that I wasn’t sleeping at home, so I wouldn’t know how they reacted.
I love them both equally and for different reasons. But with our lifestyle we could only have cats at the moment and probably until at least one of us retires.
If you were laying down on the floor and resting and felt a shockwave/tremor you’d probably react too.
The cats in this video are startled only moments before the major movement from the earthquake.
Some of the cats may have only been startled by the cats that initially experienced it.
Need a controlled experiment with isolated cats.
This has been conventional knowledge for a long time. I studied it in school.
There is no mystery involved.
You want mystery? I have it: The dog that senses its master approaching, from miles away, and waits at the door, even when the pattern is disrupted.
Now that is a mystery.
“Moments before the café started to shake, the cats seem to react to a loud noise or a thump.”
Moments before the humans in the café noticed it starting to shake, the cats seem to react to a loud noise or a thump.
Fixed it.
How is it that the earthquake only started once the humans noticed it?
Maybe it actually started when the CATS noticed it.
NOT mysterious.
P wave and S wave.
Guess you P yourself then S yourself?
Hey, thanks!
I think Sheldrake has also done some podcast interviews/talks on this that you can find online.
“Sorry to be a party pooper, but the cats are clearly reacting to a sound that can be heard on the video before the earthquake hits.”
My sound doesn’t work, but that seems to be an awful lot of frantic activity unless the sound was a can opener.
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