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  • Various animals are claimed to "predict" an earthquake, but this is merely a reaction to one that has already happened; they just know it will get there before you do. Similarly, the Chinese machine that drops balls is only a recording, not a prediction.
  • Carp have been theorised to help predict earthquakes, appparently relating to some sensitivity to electric fields (like many fish); however, monitoring and experimentation led to null results.
  • Instrumentation placed aboard satellites had some promise, but was just not reliable or accurate enough to predict earthquakes ahead of time.
  • Other researchers have used rods in the ground to detect changes in the ground at various levels and in different ways, in the hope that changes detected would indicate an earthquale. Likewise, they were never reliable and accurate enough to be used.
  • There is currently no way to predict an earthquake's occurrence accurately and reliably before it happens; the best we can get is early warnings of when an earthquake will reach a certain place.
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