Watch animals and birds for signs of impending earthquake

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080525/sc_afp/
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Chinese media reports and Internet blogs have buzzed with reports of mass migrations of thousands of frogs and toads near the quake region in Sichuan province just before the May 12 disaster, which left more than 80,000 people dead or missing.

Whether linked to the quake or not, there is little dispute among scientists that animals can predict earthquakes, possibly through sensitivity to pressure waves.
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I have heard many many incidents of this. The most recent famous incident of ancient traditional people listening to and watching the animals and birds is the Moken People during the 2004 Indonesian Tsunami. All of the Moken people who listened to their traditional teachings of watching what the animals and birds do survived by paddling, sailing and motoring their boats far enough out to sea so the tsunami waves could be ridden over them as rolling waves rather than breaking waves that one gets close to shore or shallow water or land. So, even though the Moken Sea Gypsies mostly survived by doing this, many they told about this who weren't Moken didn't believe them and died because they didn't understand how watching the birds and animals made any sense. So they stayed too close to shore and died. However, most Moken people were far out to sea during the tsunami and survived.