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Cats in a Cat Cafe in Japan Reacting to an Earthquake - 994393

RM Videos · 367K views · 2018-07-11 · 0:45

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A one-minute clip from a cat cafe in Japan where sleeping cats wake and look around just before an earthquake begins shaking the room.

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Commenters use it in earthquake threads as an anecdote that animals may sense tremors seconds before humans, and occasionally as a joke about cat alarms.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2019–2024

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Animals & natureGeology & earth science
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floxy · 2024-04 · Recommendation

Speaking of cats and earthquakes, I just watched: [VIDEO] ...again. This is a Cat Cafe in Japan, and you can clearly see the cats get alerted to something ~10 seconds before the shaking starts. Do we have an idea of what they are reacting to?

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hexbinencoded · 2020-09 · Joke / meme

For fixed locations, there are cheap P-wave detection earthquake alarms based on mechanical pendulums that will give seconds of warning. Example: [LINK] Also, cat alarms: [VIDEO]

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tzs · 2019-07 · Reference

Cats can probably feel or hear the p waves, which humans usually do not notice, and which travel faster than the more noticeable (to humans) s waves. Here's a video of a bunch of cats in a cat cafe in Japan whose sleep is interrupted by an earthquake. They all wake up and start looking around about 9 seconds before the shaking starts, probably due to sensing the p wave. [VIDEO]

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