On May 5th, many Chinese locals noticed thousands of frogs on the move. They were seen traveling without fear of traffic as they crossed streets in mass floods.
Many Chinese sensed the migration as a bad omen of a coming natural disaster, but the Chinese government told them that
it was just a natural migration for the purpose of propagation. This
calmed the people and no one took the omen very seriously.
On Monday, 12th of May, at about 2:45pm, central China region recorded a 7.8-magnitude quake which occured near Wenchuan County, Sichuan province, that killed nearly 10,000 people.
Many civilian houses and roads were collapsed and damaged. In one Dujiangyan city middle school, 900 students and teachers were buried in the collapsed building, at least 50 were killed.
The quake was the largest the region has seen for over a generation. It was so strong, even countries like Thailand, Vietnam and Hong Kong felt the shake.
Many people are now calling the Chinese Earthquake Test Centers “useless”, as they were unable to even detect the earthquake before it happened. When they finally announced the earthquake had occured, it was 12 minutes after the disaster, and 2 minutes after the US had announced a large earthquake in China.
As for the Frogs and their omen, Chinese scientists stated animals have much better sense than human on detecting the natural disasters like this.
So much for “migration for propagation”.
Ummm...
P(A|B)P(B) = P(B|A)P(A), no?
Posted by: Mark | May 16, 2008 at 10:58 AM
Is it????Heard about the bird's migration before an earthquake.But have not heard about frog!!!Its really an useful information!!!Thanks for this post!
Posted by: BPMN | December 12, 2009 at 07:08 AM
Its quite interesting and the blog contain such a wonderful informations! Thanks for the post about the earthquake migraion of frogs!
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