Posted on 05/15/2008 6:20:33 AM PDT by NYer
I have a friend who is native born Italian. He has often spoken of similar animal behavior in Italy just prior to an earthquake. Your thoughts?
Imperceptible to human senses, perhaps, but not imperceptible to human technology.
I’d believe it. One of my dogs knew when a thunderstorm was coming; she hated them. She’d be under the bed long before the storm showed up on local radar.
I remember a class room here in california that had a fish in an aquarium that would begin swimming on its side 12 hours before a quake.
Either the animals were acting strangely before the quake or they weren’t. There are many stories of animals acting oddly before quakes, and not just from China. And lakes and ponds don’t just drain - unless the ground is opening up underneath them.
It is true, animals that have sensitive foot pads(dogs).
Snakes find their prey by vibrations made from the movement of what they are trying to eat.
They know if it is a large creature(herd) or small like a mouse.
They sense the vibrations of the earth prior to an earthquake and it throws them off.
It is not esp but sensitivity to environment.
Would not suprise me because animals have a much more fine tune sense of detecting movements in the earth.
Also in CA from what I have heard people report in the days and weeks before an earthquake that their pets go missing and put ads and posters up.
All one needs to remember is the tsunami in Thailand......hours before it hit all the animals make their way to the hills.
That humans can detect those signs and use them to good effect is still doubtful.
A single false alarm will cast doubt on the whole idea. If a government evacuates a town because the chickens went crazy, and then nothing happens, the government has lost all credibility on the subject.
Also see hurricane forecasting.
Are the cats and dogs in China acting odd because they sense a natural disaster or is it due to the fact they’re about to become dinner?
If you ever see lots of rats and other animals running full speed somewhere, you better follow them. Something BIG is coming.
This happened during the Tsunami. The animals started running for the hills just before the waves hit.
“Only idiots and liars predict earthquakes.” —Charles Richter
Yes. The Chinese would be better off if they spent less time on animal earthquake prediction and more on reinforcing buildings to prevent loss of life.
A very high percentage of the recent deaths could have been prevented if modern building practices had been in use. There are thousands of building in California and around the world that will fall down with a similar earthquake.
The idiots who want to spend $trillions on Global Warming could save tens of thousands of lives if that money was direct to meaningful proven technologies like seismic building upgrades.
Here is a video taken DURING the quake:
The reports at the time were some elephants, not "all" animals.
I lived in Japan for three years and my neighbor swore his dog anticipated eathquakes hours ahead of time. He’d get jittery and nervous, start whining. I took it with a grain of salt but as the years passed I noticed his dog always DID get whiney and skittish before a quake.
So personally, I think there is something to it. Perhaps they hear the very low frequency sounds of goans and moans of a fault getting ready to snap. I dunno. It is interesting though.
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