Posted on 07/23/2018 7:28:53 PM PDT by BBell
We’re not saying that every time your cat does something weird it’s a signal of an impending natural disaster, but you might want to start paying attention.
Because, as this security footage shows, cats apparently have a sense for that kind of thing.
This footage was take at the Cat Café Catchy in Japan, when an earthquake struck Osaka in June.
Moments before the café started to shake, the cats seem to react to a loud noise or a thump.
They jolt awake, looking around as if expecting to see what woke them from their naps.
Then the building begins to shake, causing panic among the cats.
The vision was posted online by the Cat cafe catchy YouTube channel two weeks ago, clocking up nearly 230,000 views since.
Animals predicting things like earthquakes and tsunamis is well-known in folklore.
A post by experts at the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program could very well explain what happened in the video above.
“We can easily explain the cause of unusual animal behaviour seconds before humans feel an earthquake,” an program spokesperson said.
“Very few humans notice the smaller P wave that travels the fastest from the earthquake source and arrives before the larger S wave.
“But many animals with more keen senses are able to feel the P wave seconds before the S wave arrives.
“As for sensing an impending earthquake days or weeks before it occurs, that's a different story.”
But scientists aren’t able to say if animals’ unusual behaviour a few days before an earthquake are expressions of “early warning signs” of a disaster.
A study from Heiko Woith, Gesa M. Petersen, Sebastian Hainzl and Torsten Dahm published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America last month suggests evidence is… shaky.
They said the data – reports of animals acting funny – was “often only anecdotal and retrospective”.
However, that doesn’t mean they’re not valid.
“The probability density of foreshocks and the occurrence of animal precursors are strikingly similar, suggesting that at least parts of the reported animal precursors are in fact related to foreshocks,” they said.
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Who doesn’t know that cats are smarter than us?
Cats always act weird. You’d be ducking for cover daily if you depended on them.
They felt the P wave
So based on responses, my red Heeler has the same amount of street cred as an earthquake around the cat community.
Awww, so funny!
We had a boxer that would hide in the closet long before an earthquake hit. Every single time first time she did it I was like wth? Then about an hour or so later....earthquake. I began to take her seriously. Lol
Cats are beautiful and wonderful animals, maybe as smart as doggos but they express it in a different way. I have the flame retardant suit on. Fire away.
yes i think one of my cats feels a P wave coming on...somehow it always causes her to seek shelter in the litter box...
I once touched a faucet and felt a very brief but strange sensation. Immediately, I thought, “Hmm. I wonder if we are about to have an earthquake.” There was an earthquake within an hour.
It is difficult to know what the animals are reacting to, but it is likely that we would react also, if we didn’t have our minds so occupied with a ton of other stuff that we hardly notice when something is slightly off in the natural world around us.
I was a young kid and still in high school lived in cali. My parents had 2 cats. I was in my room and they came in creeping and close to the ground. Then it hit.
An earthquake or a cucumber.
I don’t have any cats. I have have 3 cats that reside with me.
The cucumber did not work with my resident cats.
Yep. People are the same. Dog people and cat people.
Sorry to be a party pooper, but the cats are clearly reacting to a sound that can be heard on the video before the earthquake hits.
When the 1989 Santa Cruz/San Francisco earthquake happened, I was having a conference with my daughter's preschool teacher. The teacher's golden retriever was in the classroom most days, and that day was lying placidly on the floor. When the building started to shake - more violently that I (a California native) had ever felt before - the teacher and I rushed to take cover in a doorway. The dog didn't budge. I had always heard that animals perceived earthquakes before humans. This dog didn't. I thought maybe the dog was used to being jostled all day long by preschoolers, so a little shaking didn't phase him.
I noticed that but it’s still funny.
“...maybe as smart as doggos but they express it in a different way.”
That could be...but I doubt it.
Freegards
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