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.
Right. lower right. Sorry I goofed. Thanks for pointing it out.
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That’s the cat you want in your fox hole. The Colonel Bill of cats.
LOL!. I’m surprised I hadn’t heard that before.
I’ve never experienced and big one. 3 small ones and a sonic boom. 2 small ones in Southern Cal. and a small one one on Okinawa. Sonic boom on Okinawa too, which the USAF denied and then came clean. Pissed off the locals though.
"Habu"? (SR-71...)
picking up micro-tremors
its been known a long time that cats (and other animals) do this.
Good though to have obvious evidence.
Of course trying to utilize cats as some pre-warning system will fail becuase they are contrary beasties.
I don’t know. It was never specified. It felt more like an earthquake than the 3 small earthquakes I’ve experienced. It was odd in that we did not hear any “boom” it just shook the heck out of the house suddenly.
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