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.

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.
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Interesting i had something similar happen in my house once.

Why was it just frogs, i thought all animals get out of dangers zone before drastic events.

All that is missing from this picture is Charlton Heston and Yule Brynner.

I had my cats act really weird before a small quake once.

Before we even know that we're getting any kind of a bad storm here, my dog goes ballistic...Where he is usually calm, he will run through the rooms, window to window, and begin howling...This goes on until we get the storm, it's almost a warning from him that something is brewing..

THAT was REALLY interesting.

Thanks Owlscrying.....

well what was it???

Oh it was just hobo's looking for shelter for the winter nothing major although i had to block off part of the house for a while and call an exterminator.

You telling me that everyone just believed that govt and said oh well so what about the frogs...

Some people need their heads read... If anything weird is happening then either my cat or dogs go ballistic and I make sure I know the cause so I can react...

Oh clever people. They had to say this after the disaster.

so your house was invaded by train-hopping wandering homeless people???

If you're posting that tongue in cheek, forgive me. Otherwise, he's referring to hobo spiders, a close relative of the accursed brown recluse from my area.

yes - i was joking, obviously. however, i have never heard of hobo spiders, so thanks for the info.