地震简问简答/Can animals predict earthquakes?

Q: Can animals predict earthquakes?

A: The earliest reference we have to unusual animal behavior prior to a significant earthquake is from Greece in 373 BC. Rats, weasels, snakes, and centipedes reportedly left their homes and headed for safety several days before a destructive earthquake. Anecdotal evidence abounds of animals, fish, birds, reptiles, and insects exhibiting strange behavior anywhere from weeks to seconds before an earthquake. However, consistent and reliable behavior prior to seismic events, and a mechanism explaining how it could work, still eludes us. Most, but not all, scientists pursuing this mystery are in China or Japan.

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问：动物能够预知地震吗？

答：大型地震发生之前动物行为异常的最早记录来自公元前 373 年的希腊。据记载，在破坏性地震来临前的几天，老鼠、鼬鼠（黄鼠狼）、蛇和蜈蚣开始离开它们的洞穴，向安全地点迁徙。类似的轶事记载有许多，如地震来临数周以至于数秒之前，各种动物、鱼类、鸟类、爬虫和昆虫会出现奇怪的行为。但是，我们仍无法确定这些震前的动物行为是否形成了一致和稳定的方式，以及这种行为产生的机制。对这些未解之谜的科学研究大多数（但不是全部）在中国和日本进行。

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