EARTHQUAKE

Grey River Argus, 8 June 1933, Page 5

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forecast by fish Science Interested PECUIJAR PHENOMENA. (Aus. & N.Z, Cable Assn.) VANCOUVER, June 6. Addressing the Science Congress, Doctor Shinkishi Haitai (Japanese Imperial University; said that fish foretell earthquakes, and respond to the human voice by coming close to the surface. Describing the experiment of forecasting earthquakes by determining the i<a< tion to a knock on the table of catfish. Dr. Haitai said it was concluded that catfish became sensitive to the knocking sound seven or eight hours before an earthquake was recorded. The experiment was successful in eighty per cent, of the trials. The sort of disturbance a catfish feels prior to an earthquake is yet uncertain, though the sudden alteration of the earth current appears to be at least one of the factors. During several days prior to the Kwangto earthquake, fish refused baited hooks in the entire Sagami Bay. Similar phenomenon was dotired nt Tango Bay prior t.» tin- earthquake. he added. FISH AND TREES. VANCOUVER, June 6. At the Science Congress, Dr. A. HHutchinson, of the University of British Columbia, said that immortality mav be potentially inherent in all forms of life. The plaice fish had no age, or size limit. It continued its growth until some external circumstance exterminated it- Trees continued their growth as long as they lived. The capacity of cells of protoplasm to reproduce themselves indefinitely may well be immortality’s secret.