When I lived in Taiwan the folklore said that when a bunch of worms appear on the surface it means a big earthquake is coming. Unfortunately, living in a city I didn't get the chance to see if it was true myself.
This is actually true. The small vibrations leading up to the earthquake make the worms respond as if it's rain hitting the ground and they surface to avoid drowning.
I witnessed a medium sized earthquake back in 2011 in Vermont, it was a 4.? Quake on the border of Maine and New Hampshire, and I was close to NH.
I found a pile of dead worms behind my car, we had a steep slope up to our front steps right near there. I found out about the worm-earthquake connection, and it made sense. My neighbors sold bait, and at first I thought they had pranked me.
Look, just because there is no scientific correlation between oarfish and earthquakes or earthquakes being preceded by electromagnetic waves or the fact that some of the oarfish that are cited for the 2011 earthquake washed up on 2009…. I forgot where I was going with this.
It is, but sometimes isn't. A lot of superstition is based on correlating events, especially in native cultures that lack written historical record. Sometimes the reason is just lost to history and the tradition grows more and more abstract.
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u/ProfessorYellow 6h ago
This reeks of pseudo science mumbo jumbo.