Extremely comment | Is animal behavior abnormal a sign of earthquake?

Jimu Journalist Liu Chenchen

At 12:52 on September 5, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurred in Luding in Sichuan. In the afternoon of the same day, "Bat Group in Sichuan Mianzhu responded" caused heated discussion among netizens. It turned out that on the 4th, in Mianzhu, Sichuan, a large number of suspected bats appeared in the sky, and they flew passing densely; in Weiyuan, Sichuan, netizens took the fish group to jump out of the water. In this regard, Zhou Rongjun, a researcher at the Sichuan Earthquake Administration, said that it is difficult to verify the earthquake with animal phenomena. (Report on September 5th of Life Times)

In terms of social media, some netizens did not agree with the interpretation of Zhou Rongjun's researcher. For example, some netizens said that the abnormal phenomenon of animal animals has a certain relationship with the earthquake and is an experience left by predecessors. Perhaps it is due to the sensitivity of animals than humans.

The reason why this topic is rushing to the hot search is on the one hand, the majority of netizens are expressing their attention to the earthquake disaster and concern for the affected area; on the other hand, it is also the expectation of scientific prediction of earthquakes. Netizens have a certain reason to trace the animal abnormal phenomenon before the earthquake: this time the Sichuan Luding earthquake has indeed happened. The fact is in front of the eyes. , Save Life to reduce losses?

However, as the researcher said, there may be a variety of reasons, which may be related to the earthquake. The reporter believes that whether animal abnormalities can predict earthquakes must be based on scientific basis.

The experience that ordinary people can pass on their ears are far more than "animal abnormal phenomena predict earthquakes". Looking back at the history of scientific development, we must admit that we have played a great role in summing up the experience of previous generations and even ancient people. For example, the discovery of artemisinin is related to the systematic sorting of medical books, grass, and folk medicines for the system. Not only that, in the process of scientific and technological progress, the nature of nature has brought inspiration and has also played an important help. One day in the future, maybe researchers can really find that some animals and certain phenomena will have an inseparable connection with the occurrence of earthquakes, and then make major breakthroughs in seismic predictions; maybe, after research, animal abnormal phenomena and earthquakes There is no direct relationship. The key to whether there is a relationship is whether its research process is logical, scientific, and empirical. The scientific research results of Tu Yu and others have sufficient scientific basis and have undergone the test of time. Similarly, how to predict the earthquake earlier, it should also talk about science and pay attention to empirical, rather than just staying at the level of experience.

At the current scientific level, it is not feasible to predict the earthquake earlier. Now that sciences can be falsified, in this discussion, scientific researchers 'views are not the law of Jinke Yu, and netizens' extensive discussion is not only nothing wrong, but also practical significance. Of course, this depends on the hard work of scientific researchers. At present, during the golden period of disaster relief, you may wish to focus more on disaster relief and work together to help the disaster area through the difficulties.

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