[kj] [OT] Nature and natural disaster

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  I read of something similar before the 2004 tsunami off Indonesia(?) but it was 
  mammals they were referring to back then.

folk devil <folkdevil_23 at hotmail.com> wrote:
      .hmmessage P  {  margin:0px;  padding:0px  }  body.hmmessage  {  FONT-SIZE: 10pt;  FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma  }    not sure the quake could have been avoided, but...
 
  DID TOADS PREDICT THE EARTHQUAKE? 

CHINA - 13/05/2008  

According to recent estimates, the earthquake that hit China on 
Monday could leave 10,000 people dead. Web users are saying 
that the catastrophe could have been avoided, if only they had 
listened to the toads. 

Two days before the quake thousands of toads suddenly decided 
to move across a bridge in Taizhou, a town in the Jiangsu province 
Chinese web users are wondering why the local authorities didn't 
relate the event to the imminence of an earthquake, and why 
scientists didn't take notice of the bizarre disappearance of a lake 
in Enshi, in the Hubei province, on April 26 (see photo). 

A seismologist tells us that the Chinese have long relied on the 
behaviour of animals to predict earthquakes. Although there's no 
scientific study to back up the farmers' claims, the idea that toads 
sensed the earthquake should not be ruled out. 


"Animals sense pre-earthquake micro-tremors"
Pascal Bernard is a researcher in a team of seismologists at the 
Jussieu University in Paris.

http://observers.france24.com/en/content/20080513-toads-predict-earthquake-dead-china

  
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