In 373 B.C., historians recorded that animals, including rats, snakes and weasels, deserted the Greek city of Helice in droves just days before a quake devastated the place.
Accounts of similar animal anticipation of earthquakes have surfaced across the centuries since. Catfish moving violently, chickens that stop laying eggs and bees leaving their hive in a panic have been reported. Countless pet owners claimed to have witnessed their cats and dogs acting strangely before the ground shook%u2014barking or whining for no apparent reason, or showing signs of nervousness and restlessness.
But many times Earthquakes come without warning.
When a great earthquake with magnitude of 7.8 struck the city of tangshan in china on July 28, 1976, at least 655,000 people died and 780,000 more were injured. There was no prediction for this earthquake, and therefore no warning.
Before this quake struck, chinese had indulged in an iconoclastic and murderous orgy during the cultural revolution where they killed 20 million innocent people in a frenzy of class hatred.
RE:Animals and Earth quakes.
by Ramesh Nittoor on May 13, 2008 04:26 AM Permalink
This is not the time for harsh words. We need to share the sorrow of Chinese people, ordinary people who have lost their kids, near and dear ones. As the American saying goes, we are all in it together, i.e. on this spaceship Earth.
Let us live up to the Olympian ideal set for Beijing "One World, One Dream".
