’QUAKE FORECASTERS
C ATFISH SENSITIVENESS, INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS. (Received I p.m.) VANCOUVER, Juno fi. Dr Shinkishi Haifai, of ! tlio Japanese Imperial University, Tokio, told the Science Congress today that fish foretell earthquakes and respond to the human voice by coming close to the surface. He. was describing an experiment in forecasting earthquakes by determining the reaction of catfish to a knock on the table. Mr Haifa! said that it was concluded that catfish became sensitive to a knocking sound seven or eight hours before an earthquake was recorded. The experiment was successful in SO per cent, of the trials.
The sort of disinrbance that catfish feel prior to an earthquake is yet uncertain, though the sudden alteration of the earth’s currents appears to be at least one of the factors.
During several days prior to the TCwanto earthquake, fish refused to be baited on the hook in the entire Sagami Bay, and a similar phenomena was noticed at Tanga Bay prior to Ur* earthquake on March 7, 1927.
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Northern Advocate, 7 June 1933, Page 5
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