May 15, 2008


Did Toads Predict the China Quake?

For years the Chinese have used animal behavior as indicators of future earthquakes. Just before the most recent devastation in China toads swarmed across one of the bridges in the affected area. Two days before the quake thousands of toads suddenly decided to move across a bridge in Taizhou, a town in the Jiangsu province. Could the catastrophe that left tens of thousands of people dead in the earthquake in China have been avoided? Some Chinese 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 Enshi, in the Hubei province, on April 26.

posted by Lynn Bauman in animals, nature 

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2 Responses to “Did Toads Predict the China Quake?”

  1. Daryl Scroggins on May 15th, 2008 at 7:30 pm

    Wow, I think if I saw something flush a lake like that I would head for France. Unless I was in France that is….

  2. Zod on September 21st, 2008 at 10:10 pm

    They do, of course.
    Earthquake origin is related to gas upwelling from deep earth such as methane, helium, nitrogen and others. Animals can feel better smells than humans. Animal behaviour can securely be useful to predict earthquake and better than seismological studies.

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