Could China Have Known Earthquake was Coming - by Watching Animals?
By CJ Mathis, published May 15, 2008
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It is reported on Comcast.net News that approximately 3 weeks before this recent quake the water levels in a pond in Enshi City all but disappeared, toads by the thousands wandered in the streets in Mianzhu and, the zoo animals reacted strangely on the day of the disaster.
The method of using natural and animal signs as predictions has been used and actually effective in several earthquakes in the country of China in the past. One ask now why did they not then evacuate and move people.
This is not an exact science however, no one actually knows how animals detect these things. Perhaps it is movement in the ground that is not detectible by humans and the animals heightened sense of touch and smell assists them in this area. Tests indicate that a dog hears between 67 and 47,000 HZ (Hertz), Their sense of smell is 1 thousand times stronger than a human. Their sense of feel is not recorded but, if you watch a dog you can see that they feel vibrations that you cannot feel.
No matter an animals ability, the difficulty would lie in what signs to watch for and how to read them. It is reported that the animals in the zoo beat their heads against doors to their cages and that elephants swung their trunks wildly. This behavior can be witnessed under many different circumstances in a zoo or captive setting with many different kinds of animals. Government officials would surely hesitate to ring the bell of danger strictly by the movements and activities of the animals in the local zoo. You must however, look at the water levels changing as a sign of some impending disaster. Perhaps the time span from the beginning of this lowering and the actual event was not long enough for them to analyze. This is something we may never know.
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Did You Know?
China used animal behavior as a guideline to evacuate Haichen in 1975 before the 7.3 earthquake.
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