Based on animals to predict concussions

Before Chengdu City suffered a devastating earthquake 32 years ago, animals had strange behaviors and signs that prices as survivors could notice before the disaster.

The cat in front of a shop in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, on May 20. Most scientists think that animals can predict earthquakes, perhaps thanks to their ability to sense pressure. their waves.

Fu Wenran - a married retired farmer who died in about 240,000 victims of the Tangshan earthquake on June 28, 1976 - said: 'Animals are trying to tell us something . If only we knew, not many people would have died so much. '

Some lucky people in this northern city disaster - still the biggest earthquake disaster in modern history - say the casualties of the recent tremor in Sichuan, southwest China could be minimized if understanding clues from animals.

The Chinese media and Internet blogs spread that thousands of frogs and toads had migrated near the tremor area in Sichuan province just before the May 12 disaster struck. over 80,000 people were killed and missing.

Whether animal migration is related to tremors, most scientists believe that animals can predict earthquakes, perhaps due to their ability to sense wave pressure.

Dr. George Pararas-Carayannis - chemist and oceanographer who is currently the president of the Tsunami Society in Honolulu - said: 'Physical and chemical stimuli emanating from the earth before the earthquake struck come. Perhaps animals have sensed these agents'.

'Research on animal behavior can yield more complex and more efficient sensors with short-term predictive use.'

Scientists can detect the risk of earthquake intensification by measuring seismic pressure, the tilt of the ground as well as changing the magnetic field, although it is impossible to accurately predict all tremors. this way.

However, according to Pararas-Carayannis, there are many other strange signs that have never been discovered that can be applied in predicting tremors.

According to the Tangshan earthquake survivors in 1976, this is an example of the effect of those foreboding.

Image of the terrible earthquake at Tang Son 1976 (Photo: www.recordhistory.org )

Mr. Fu was then a tenant on the outskirts of the city. He said that the dogs kept roaring wildly, even barking for hours before the tremor occurred at 3:42 am. Rats and snakes are crazy. And the horses and cows kicked into the stable.

The water level at the wells in the area decreased weekly before, and only increased rapidly a few hours before the tremor. Water even filled the well. Even Tangshan people behave strangely.

According to Mr. Fu - now 66 years old: 'Everyone is annoyed and irritable. There are many scandals that happened that night. '

According to the 71-year-old photographer Chang Qing, at the time people blamed the unusually hot weather without predicting the weather. He said: 'It is hot to the extreme. At 2:00 in the morning, everyone splashed water on themselves and then took a fan to cool it. But you know what? After the tremor occurred, the sky suddenly became much cooler. '

A similar rise in temperature occurs in other tremors around the world, some scientists suspect that this is due to geothermal effects. There are also mysterious glowing halos that appear in the sky before major earthquakes since ancient times.

Jiang Mo, 59, remembers the memory when he was resting in an incredible heat before dawn: 'It looks like there's an explosion. The light suddenly flashed but there was no sound. '

'A lot of people have witnessed it but no one can explain it'.

Some scientists argue that light before an earthquake is the product of imaginative people, while geologists say it is related to electromagnetic forces emitted from deep ground.

But the ability to predict concussions manifested through animal behavior is still more reliable.

China once founded a quake research group in the 1960s but is now dissolved. The group was very confident when accurately predicting the magnitude 7.3 earthquake in 1975 in northeastern Liaoning province.

According to retired biologist Huang Zhujian, formerly the research leader above, if no additional research is conducted, those signs will only be strange and not true predictive methods. delicate and accurate.

He said: 'We know that animals that can foresee an earthquake happen, but that is only a complementary role. We have to rely on the main geological methods even though those methods cannot predict the exact earthquake. '

Source: To predict quakes, listen to the animals, drunk China survivors