The belief that animals can sense an earthquake before it occurs has been held since ancient times. Countries such as China and Japan, which suffer frequently from the devastation brought about by seismic disturbances, have a long history of attempting to use animals to predict earthquakes.
Apparently animals of all kinds act in peculiar ways just prior to an earthquake. Many animals have more sensitive auditory capacities than humans, and perhaps because of this, react to ultrasound originating from fracturing rock. Some researches have also pointed out that some animals can pick up variations in the earth's magnetic field occurring near the epicenters of seismic events. Examples of unusual animal behavior include dogs barking for hours and wild animals appearing confused or losing their natural fear of people. Some people claim that even fish, reptiles, and insects engage in abnormal behavior at this time. Catfish, for example, are reputed to jump out of the water onto the land, and snakes have been seen leaving the nests where they were hibernating. Such strange behavior occurs from just moments before to a couple of weeks in advance of the quake.
A famous example of the successful use of animal behavior to predict a quake occurred in China in 1975. Based on reports of strange animal behavior, authorities ordered the evacuation of the city of Haicheng. Jus a few days later there was a massive, 7.3 magnitude quake. Thus, the lives of thousands of people were saved.
The reading and the lecture are both about the animal's prior knowledge of catastrophe. The author of the reading feels that animal's unusual behavior provides us with evidence that earthquake is impending. The lecturer challenges the claim made by the author. he is of the opinion that this whole concept is based on vague evidence as it is not scientifically proven.
To begin with, the author argues that animals have superior listening capability which gives them knowledge the ultrasound engendering from rocks collision. The article mentions that the dogs barking incessantly to wild animals roaming here and there is the evidence of animal sensing the earthquake. this specific argument, is challenged by the lecturer. he claims such animal responses are anecdotal and are often reported after the event. Additionally, he says that people are quick to report the animals usual behaviour as unusual after the event had occurred, however if the event does not happen they ignore the behaviour.
Secondly, the writer suggest not only terrestrial animals report such deviation but also the aquatic animals and reptiles. In the article, it is said that catfish responds to abnormal behaviour by jumping out of the water and snakes moving out from their nests. The lecturer, however, rebut this by mentioning that such stories are fanciful. he elaborates on this by bringing up the point that the research conducted in California showed no connection to the reports of dogs missing to earthquake.
Finally, the author posits that evacuation of Haicheng is the compelling utilisation animal's prior sense of natural disaster. Moreover, in the article it is stated that animals were able to identify this few days before the event, thus saving lives of thousands of people. In contrast, the lecturer position is that no animal were involved in the prior reporting of the event. he notes that premature evacuation was made possible due to the foreshocks, which were the real source of identification of an imminent earthquake.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, thus, in contrast, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 10.4613686534 182% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 43.0 30.3222958057 142% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.01324503311 219% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1721.0 1373.03311258 125% => OK
No of words: 325.0 270.72406181 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.29538461538 5.08290768461 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24591054749 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75030111315 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 145.348785872 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.550769230769 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 541.8 419.366225166 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.3423742495 49.2860985944 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.235294118 110.228320801 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1176470588 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.70588235294 7.06452816374 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.126781611802 0.272083759551 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0412766285086 0.0996497079465 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0302892435781 0.0662205650399 46% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0766992588304 0.162205337803 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0183433973761 0.0443174109184 41% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.3589403974 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 53.8541721854 81% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.46 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.34 8.42419426049 111% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 63.6247240618 154% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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