Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Frogs Predict Earthquakes?




Recently were I live in Oklahoma City, there have been small earthquakes taking place every few weeks. Not the ones that destroy buildings, but the ones that just shake your house a bit. Oklahoma is not widely known for earthquakes like California, but they definetely do happen here. The fault line that causes this is just a few miles from were I live so we feel them more than anyone. Well, with all these earthquakes happening here I tend to read a lot more when I see articles that talk about earth quakes. And earlier I found an article that said Toads can predict earthquakes. Its very interesting.


It mentioned that recently, some scientists may have documented proof that this foresight could be real. In the current issue of the Journal of Zoology, behavioral biologists Rachel Grant and Tim Halliday of the Open University report that large numbers of toads fled a breeding area five days before a magnitude-6.8 earthquake struck L'Aquila, Italy, in April 2009.


These scientist were doing a different study on toads. This particular study had taken place less than 40 miles from the epicenter of a large upcoming earthquake. The scientist started seeing the frogs disapearing during their study and couldn't figure out why. Well, five days later their was a large earthquake that measured 6.8.

Scientist noticed that the climate, temperature, and other things stayed the same. But, the toads still left. Although some speculate and say that no animal can sense natural disasters, others really think it can happen and study this daily. So I want to know what you think. Do you think animals can sense natural disasters?

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