Before The Sichuan Earthquake In China

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It is impossible to predict a disaster. This argument is not valid because not every animal acts differently, but that could just be different mindsets. Or other reasons that people came up with.Before the Sichuan earthquake in China, there were reports of peculiar phenomena. About three weeks before the earthquake, large amounts of water suddenly vanished from a pond in Enshi in east-central China, about 350 miles east of the earthquake's epicenter. Another odd incident, which occurred just three days before the earthquake, involved thousands of toads roaming the streets of Mianzhu, a city that was among the hardest-hit by the quake. Mianzhu residents had feared the pandemonium was a sign of an approaching natural disaster, but a local forestry

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