据法新社巴黎1980年12月1日的署名电讯:自然灾害的预报,特别是地震预报,仍然是近期解决不了的。大多数专家认为,今后许多年还不可能做到预报。然而,1979年4月在联合国教科文组织召开的一次国际地震学家会议上,专家们认为他们不久就能辨明地震的初始迹象。他们说,这些过去经常被忽视的迹象确实地预告了较大的灾害。例如,中国人已阐明过这些迹象包括动物的异常们为,动物好象对自然灾害有天生的 According to AFP, Paris, December 1, 1980, signed telecommunications: forecast of natural disasters, especially earthquake prediction, is still not resolved in the near future. Most experts believe that it is impossible to forecast in many years in the future. However, at an international conference of seismologists at UNESCO in April 1979, experts thought they would soon be able to discern the initial signs of the earthquake. They say that these often overlooked signs of the past have indeed foreshadowed the bigger disasters. For example, the Chinese have clarified these signs as including animal anomalies, animals that appear to be natural for natural disasters