Which plants can predict earthquakes?

A big earthquake is simply destruction for human beings. No wonder people get scared when they talk about earthquakes. An earthquake of magnitude 7 is equivalent to the power of more than 20 20,000-ton atomic bombs. There are about 5 million earthquakes in the world every year, of which about 50,000 can be felt and about 200 to 300 are extremely destructive.

In the face of this terrible natural disaster, human beings feel far less than animals. For example, before the earthquake, rats would run all over the street, livestock would not enter the nest, and chickens would fly up the trees. So can plants that can neither talk nor run help people predict earthquakes?

The answer is yes. For example, Japanese scientists have studied the sensitive mimosa. It was found that under normal circumstances, the leaflets of mimosa were laid flat during the day and closed at night. In the time before the earthquake, mimosa was uncharacteristically closed during the day and half-opened at night. This anomaly must be related to the coming earthquake.

In China, people's abnormal reactions to plants before the earthquake were also recorded.

1970, a month before the earthquake with magnitude of 5. 1 occurred in Xiji, Ningxia, dandelion in Longde County actually bloomed in early winter. 1976, before the strong earthquake of magnitude 7.8 occurred in Tangshan, bamboo bloomed in Tangshan area, and the fruit trees blossomed again after bearing fruit.

Why were plants so abnormal before the earthquake?

The earthquake itself has a gestation process, in which a series of changes will take place in ground temperature, groundwater and ground potential. Plants will also change accordingly. When many plants have abnormal reactions on a large area of land, they are sending people a signal to be alert to earthquakes.

Earthquake phenomenon is very complicated, but through long-term data accumulation and research by scientists, observing plant anomalies is a means to accurately predict earthquakes.