Thousands of toads appeared on the streets in one Chinese town days before it hit. Zoo animals started acting strangely hours before the worst earthquake in China’s history. Could these signs have been used to alert people something was about to happen?
When a natural disaster is brewing often the animals are the first sign something is up. They seem to have an added sense that bad tidings are on the way that we humans are lacking.
Would the earthquake that struck China last week have a smaller death toll if those signs had been investigated? Chances are they would not have mattered. Who would pay attention to the news anchor spouting take cover the frogs are invading?
“If the seismological bureau were professional enough they could have predicted the earthquake ten days earlier, when several thousand cubic meters of water disappeared within an hour in Hubei, but the bureau there dismissed it,” one commentator wrote.
In the aftermath of such a massive disaster there will be those asking why wasn’t more done before hand. The answer is there is no sure way to predict when the earth will buckle. Signs from nature may indicate that something is brewing but pinpointing what it is hasn’t been figured out yet. Scientists aren’t Doctor Dolittle, they can’t talk to the animals and get those natural disaster ESP signals.
Three weeks ago the first signs from nature appeared that something big was coming. In Enshi city in Hubei province large amounts of water suddenly disappeared from a pond.
Three days before the quake Mianzhu’s streets were crowded with thousands of toads.
The morning of the quake the zoo animals at Wuhan were going wild.
Still even together those signs could only say something was coming, not pinpoint what or where.
Seismologists think that the movement of underground rocks prior to a quake generates an electrical signal that some animals can feel. Other scientists theorize that animals feel the weakest shocks before an earthquake that humans don’t.
In the pass twenty years the China Seismological Bureau has used some of these signs to predict 20 earthquakes. that is a very small number compared to the number of quakes in China in twenty years.
“The problem now is this kind of relationship is still quite vague,” Zhang Xiaodong said.
Should we pay closer attention to the wildlife around us for clues to what could be coming? Perhaps they are just a bit smarter than we are when it comes to Mother Nature.
Source: By Moments In Time http://timeinmoments.wordpress.com/
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