Subject: Toads Tell About The Chinese Earthquake.
May 14, 2008.
If you look at the following website you can
see all the pictures about this story.
I hope someone will send this information to
my friend Jim Berkland, because I don't have his
e-mail address.
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From: a-exa
Subject: Did toads have predict the China quake?
http://observers.france24.com/en/content/20080513-toads-predict-earthquake-dead-china
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According to recent estimates, the earthquake that
hit China on Monday could leave
http://www.france24.com/en/20080512-death-toll-3000-beichuan-sichuan-china-earthquake
10,000 people dead. (JW That figure will probably go
up as time goes by.)
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 (see photos). 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 En****, in the Hubei
province, on April 26 (see photos).
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.
The contributors
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"Animals sense pre-earthquake micro-tremors"
Pascal Bernard is a researcher in a team of
seismologists at the Jussieu University in Paris.
Although it's difficult to prove that toads
"predicted" the quake, it's certainly not impossible.
We know that animals sense pre-earthquake
micro-tremors, and react to underground water
movements, or even changes in the composition of the
air. It's just that these theories haven't been
scientifically proven yet.
China has a long tradition of seismology studies
based particularly on looking at the behaviour of rats,
s****s, toads etc. The idea was very fa****onable in the
70s [when scientific researchers were ousted in the
cultural revolution]. Farmers very carefully noted down
all the different kinds of behaviour of animals in the
hope of predicting natural catastrophes. But in my
experience it never really worked. In 1975, villagers
did manage to predict an earthquake and avoid
catastrophe. But it was because they felt the
mini-tremors, not because of something they noticed in
the animals."
Swamped by toads in Taizhou (Jiangsu province)
10 May 08. Via Chinese website
http://news.qq.com/a/20080511/001202.htm
A pond disappears in En**** (Hubei province)
April 26. Via
http://news.qq.com/a/20080505/003537.htm
Resulting in a good catch for a fisherman.
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(JW IMHO this is caused due to the fact that animals,
birds and toads are directed by a group intelligence,
group spirit, mother nature or whatever you want to
call it that tells them to leave and area if it
is going to be hit by a large earthquake. Millions
of people could be saved if they used this information
in the Los Angeles area if a very large earthquake
should hit them or all along the Calif. coastline and
the San Andres Fault.)
John Winston. johnfw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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