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Natural Phenomena
Earthquake omensPosted by Eric Mu, May 13, 2008 11:41 AM
On May 5, the Chutian Metropolis Daily, newspaper based in Hubei Province, reported about a pond that suddenly "disappeared." On the morning of April 26, water in a big pond in Enshi, a city about 400 km away from the provincial capital Wuhan, suddenly whirled downward, accompanied by a loud noise. Within four hours, about 80 thousand tons of water drained away. The picture above shows the dried-up pond. A second photo shows a farmer holding a big fish that he caught from the drained pond. According to local document records, the phenomenon has occurred several times over the past decades. The pond drained in 1949, when the People's Republic of China was established, in 1976, the year when the Tangshan Earthquake caused over a quarter of a million deaths, the Cultural Revolution ended, and Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong both passed away, and again in 1989, the year of the Tian'anmen student demonstrations. On May 10, the West China Metropolis Daily, a Sichuan-based newspaper, reported that masses of toads were migrating from their usual habitats in Mianyang, Sichuan Province. Lots of them were run over by passing vehicles as they attempted to cross the streets. The newspaper cited the director of the local Forestry Department, who said that the phenomena was entirely normal and in fact indicated that the local environment was improving. The toads shown in the photo here are from Jiangsu, where their appearance is not normal at all. They're reportedly looking for a more habitable environment because their former living quarters are short of oxygen. To predict an earthquake is still extremely tricky for modern science, even more so when social consequences have to be considered. But after every disaster, in hindsight there seems to have been signs that passed unheeded. Are they total coincidences, or warnings from nature? Links and Sources
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Comments on Earthquake omens
Signs of nature for sure.
Total coincidences, as even a brief perusal of the literature will tell you.
The human brain is a ret-con machine.
Burma Junta kills monks = Cyclone
Chinese kill monks = Earthquake
Buddha is pissed off...
US elects George Bush = K...
Suddenly the joke is not funny anymore, eh?
@Micah: Couldn't agree with you more. What? You think I'm a "W" lover? Sorry to take the air out of your smug sails...
we cant go back to yesterday.can we??
omens ...omens
Micah Sittig got pwned. LOL.