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China using chickens, fish to predict earthquakes: report

eErotica69

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China using chickens, fish to predict earthquakes: report

BEIJING - Chinese government researchers are using chickens, fish and toads to try to predict earthquakes, media reported.


Chinese government researchers are using chickens, fish and toads to try to predict earthquakes, media reports
The seismological bureau in the eastern city of Nanjing has transformed seven animal farms into seismic stations, the China Daily newspaper reported last week.

Breeders on the farms are asked to update the bureau about the behaviour of the animals twice a day, the report said.

Possible abnormal behaviour which could indicate imminent earthquakes includes chickens flying up into trees, fish leaping out of water or toads moving in a group, it added.

Nanjing plans to recruit seven more farms into the scheme this year, it said. Facilities need to house more than three species to be eligible.

But some animal keepers seemed reluctant to become involved.

"Our zoo is not being transformed into a monitor station because the animals will display abnormal behaviour when they are teased by visitors," the report quoted a local zookeeper as saying.

Using animals predict earthquakes is not new in China. State-run media said last year that the central city of Nanchang was using dogs to predict tremors.

China is regularly hit by seismic incidents, with hundreds of thousands killed in major disasters in the past. Three people died in the latest fatal earthquake last week, in the far western region of Xinjiang.

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http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/614276/china-using-chickens-fish-to-predict-earthquakes-report
 

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Can Catfish Predict Earthquakes?
By FishingMagic 23/04/2012 14:35:00

Japanese researchers think the answer to earthquake prediction may lie not so much with an understanding of plate tectonics and seismology but with an analysis of fish behaviour.

According to recent reports Japanese researchers think the answer to earthquake prediction may lie not so much with an understanding of plate tectonics and seismology but with an analysis of fish behaviour.

In Japanese mythology the ‘Namazu’ is a giant catfish which lives in the m&d under the islands of Japan and it is guarded by the god Kashima who restrains him, but when Kashima occasionally lets his guard down Namazu thrashes his tail causing violent earthquakes.

Myth or not Japanese scientists, headed by Naoki Yada, a professor at the Kanagawa Institute of Technology, are sending out ‘catfish kits’ to schools to test the theory that animals may offer an insight into imminent seismic activity.
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In the trial experiments tanks of catfish are monitored by infra red sensors to detect heightened activity and the data used in conjunction with seismic measurement to determine if there is indeed a correlation between the two. According to Professor Yada’s results to date high levels of catfish activity have corresponded with increased seismic activity some 70% of the time.
http://www.fishingmagic.com/news_events/news/15956-can-catfish-predict-earthquakes.html

https://faculty.washington.edu/tswanson/ESS/315/Student%20PP%20Presentations/animalprediction.pdf
 
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