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Oarfish omen spells earthquake disaster for Japan
| Quote From Source: | Japan is bracing itself after dozens of rare giant oarfish - traditionally the harbinger of a powerful earthquake - have been washed ashore or caught in fishermen's nets.
This rash of tectonic movements around the Pacific "Rim of Fire" is heightening concern that Japan - the most earthquake-prone country in the world - is next in line for a major earthquake.
The giant oarfish can grow up to five metres in length and is usually to be found at depths of 1,000 metres and very rarely above 200 metres from the surface. Long and slender with a dorsal fin the length of its body, the oarfish resembles a snake.
According to traditional Japanese lore, the fish rise to the surface and beach themselves to warn of an impending earthquake - and there are scientific theories that bottom-dwelling fish may very well be susceptible to movements in seismic fault lines and act in uncharacteristic ways in advance of an earthquake - but experts here are placing more faith in their constant high-tech monitoring of the tectonic plates beneath the surface.
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perhaps they are just 'running' from the 8.8 in Chile ?
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well - as "signs" go - these certainly are hard to miss ...
http://pirosfera.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/oarfish4041.jpg
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That first guy needs a bra to cover his moobs.
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| Quote: | but experts here are placing more faith in their constant high-tech monitoring of the tectonic plates beneath the surface
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| Quoting doppelganger - posted on 3/4/2010 at 12:23 |
| Quote: | but experts here are placing more faith in their constant high-tech monitoring of the tectonic plates beneath the surface
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Yea, because that has worked so well at predicting them in advance.
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No Kiddin !!
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"You are one big ugly motherfu... " - Lieutenant Mike Harrigan
"The rain it raineth every day, and every night also -- week in and week out, from the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, there is nothing but rain, rain, rain, 'The windows of heaven are opened up.' Pluvius, grieved at some earth-giving wrong, weeps as if he never would dry up." - Overland Press (Olympia, WA), December 1861 |
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