North Koreans Told To Use Pets As Quake Warning

[Godhumor]

Source: AFP via My Fox DC

North Korea advised its citizens Sunday to use their pets as an early-warning system for earthquakes, amid heightened fears following Japan's quake and tsunami disaster.

Governments worldwide have focused on ensuring their alert systems go some way to protecting them against the horror wreaked by natural disasters such as the massive tremor and giant waves which killed thousands in Japan on March 11.

While Pyongyang has also told North Koreans about the technology it has in place to anticipate disasters, state media urged the public to take note when animals behave oddly.

The Sunday edition of Rodong Sinmun, a newspaper of the North's ruling party, and a report Saturday from the official Korean Central News Agency warned that people should beware if they see dogs barking incessantly, cattle refusing to eat or horses constantly trying to storm out of stables.



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And people think North Korea is not doing all it can to keep its people safe...

[DCKit]

1. With famine rampant in NK, I doubt they have enough pets to go around. nt

[WatsonT]

6. My thoughts exactly

how many pets do they actually have?

[Pterodactyl]

8. Police! Someone stole my joke before I could say it!

Very funny!

[bigworld]

2. and dinner.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[nyy1998]

4. lol, I had similar thoughts going through my head

:blush:

[AtheistCrusader]

3. Welcome to the 16th century.

Good grief.

[Fool Count]

7. Still better than any of the modern earthquake forecasting

methods widely available to citizens of advanced countries. Wait, I forgot, there aren't any.

[AtheistCrusader]

10. Really? My mom called me today all upset about her dog and cat's behavior for the last 12 hours.

Seattle is still standing.

It's a predictor of very little, except confirmation bias. Animals are no more sensitive than the tools seismologists use to gauge uplift, tilt, strain, and the electrical conductivity or P-wave transmissivity of underlying rock.

And they have probably more false positives.

[roseBudd]

13. Actually I do remember reading about a rather successful predictor of earthquakes...

in California who monitored for upticks in lost ads for pets

[AtheistCrusader]

15. Was it in the book "8.5"?

I'm not being sarcastic.

[RedCloud]

5. When the frog croaks, you will too!

[FLPanhandle]

9. What's next? Magic beans for their cows?

Dogs barking incessantly is a sign of an earthquake? My neighborhood in Florida must be getting ready for a 10.0 mother of all earthquakes.

[Baclava]

11. "My dog just peed on the rug!" Run away!!!

Like that?

[EFerrari]

12. The Chinese use chickens, I use cats. What's your beef?

[octothorpe]

16. cows.

mooooooooooooo

[JVS]

14. That's not bad advice.

[AnneD]

17. Pets can also double as a radiation level indicator...

if they glow in the dark, start losing hair, or start throwing off strange looking offspring....
the local nuclear reactor might not be as safe as the government is telling you.