Toads could be used to forecast earthquakes days before they happen

Yeah...and, they'll be all like, "I toad you so!" Show-offs of the amphibian world...

Yep, will take a toad over an iPhone any day.

Instead of seeing a human meterolgist broadcasting the weather in the future,we might see a toad with a microphone on your local weather so stay tuned .

Of course humans can't sense anything these days with their eyes and ears glued to the iPhones 24/7.

The dolphins coming out of the sea isn't enough, the fishes coming out of the sea is not a sign that we are in trouble. But, yet, we need to talk to Rachel Grant and her toads for her grant funding. The birds falling from the sky, the killer whales jumping into the back of fisherman's small boats, etc, etc. But Rachel Grant have to come up with her crap of toads, well the toads in Japan should have been speaking in Japanese, but instead the Japanese people were trying to eat them, when they should have been listening to their toads according to the U.K. Rachel Grant. The toads better be bilingual now, cause hell, it is done. The toads can't warn no one, cause you will be trying to eat them, just like Japan.

"Homer, have you been licking toads?"

This sounds like junk science-the rocks that become stressed before an earthquake are multiple miles underground. Surface rocks are not affected. So how can those distant rocks pollute a pond?? If it were that easy, you wouldn't need toads-just monitor surface rocks for tension.

Kinda explains why my steel-toad boots wanna take off running sometimes.

When you live in earthquake country, you would welcome a possible warning from any source — toads, pigeons, anything. When your house pitches and heaves, pictures fall off the walls, and things fly off the shelf, you wish you'd known it was going to happen beforehand even though you couldn't stop it. Lighten up, people. If you've never been there . . .

I went back and looked at the original article published on the BBC Nature website, and either Dr. Freund was misquoted in that piece, or he doesn't know that serotonin isn't a stress hormone. He's a scientist for NASA.

So if we knew an earthquake was likely to happen in the next month or two, what would we do? What steps would we take? I'm asking this seriously. If there's a tornado warning, I go to the basement for the duration. If a snowmageddon is forecast, I make sure I have supplies to last me if I'm stranded at home for a few days. When a hurricane is coming, people can board up their windows, tie stuff down, and even evacuate to another location for a few days. But if forecasters said, "An earthquake is likely to occur in the next couple of months," what are you REALLY going to do to get ready for it?

the reason earthquake prediction has been always been struggling is not lack of indicators, but the reliability of indicators. Put it plainly, a lot of "strange things" happen before an earthquake. But does these things happen always leads to an earthquake? Sure toads might get sicks, but should we evacuate a city every time a certain amount of toads get sick?

Sure the damage of an earthquake is often unimaginable, but to have a false alarm would inflict major economic losses, and if it started a panic, it would most likely cause a lot of physical harm to people as well.

I personally also have an indicator, albeit it is delayed. The color of my underwear changes.

A perfect example of how basic research can lead to useful, though unexpected, discoveries.

Tbis isn't news at all. Ask any one coming from an agricultural society in developing countries and they can tell you a lot of strange animal behavioral patterns hours even days before an impending natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis etc.

All Glory to the Hypnotoad!

Um. Serotonin is not a stress hormone. It's one of the hormones that contributes to feelings of well-being. Maybe you meant to say cortisol or noepinephrine? I wonder who was supposed to have proofread this article.

If humans had nothing to do but swim around and croak we would know more about our environment.

they loved him up and turned him into a horney toad....o brother

as for the iphone announcing earthquake, it's merely a news feed from Japan's very comprehensive earthquake prevention system. Of course they can't do that in California, because the system doesn't exist.

What do you expect, Apple actually creating a technology innovation by itself?