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 sources tell about the use of animals in many countries to predict or anticipate earthquakes. The passage argues that people can study the strange animals behavior to accurately predict earthquakes. The professor, however, denies this view based on new reports describing such method is not based on proven scientific research, rather on opinions.
Although both sources agree with the superior auditory capacities of animals, the professor claims human analysis on animal odd behaviors prior to earthquake is based on weak evidence. After any catastrophic events, people start remembering everything that happened before such events including animal behavior. Different kinds of animals might behave differently and strangely from time to time, but an earthquake could be just a triggering event that makes people remember it.
Previously, strange animal behavior prior to devastation events is believed as their anticipation act, and thus could be used as warnings for humans. However, new studies introduced by the professor showed that there is no correlation between family pet behavior and earthquake for 3-years period. Moreover, another study showed that the real warning of China’s earthquake, which previously believed was animals, was foreshocks that happened before the major earthquake.
In conclusion, both sources agree with the superior auditory capacities of animals but the lecture shows there is no scientific evidence that animal behavior can predict earhquakes.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 152, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'animals'' or 'animal's'?
Suggestion: animals'; animal's
...rgues that people can study the strange animals behavior to accurately predict earthqua...
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Line 1, column 204, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...vior to accurately predict earthquakes. The professor, however, denies this view ba...
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'however', 'if', 'moreover', 'so', 'thus', 'as for', 'in conclusion']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.274193548387 0.261695866417 105% => OK
Verbs: 0.161290322581 0.158904122519 102% => OK
Adjectives: 0.104838709677 0.0723426182421 145% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0564516129032 0.0435111971325 130% => OK
Pronouns: 0.00806451612903 0.0277247811725 29% => Some pronouns wanted.
Prepositions: 0.120967741935 0.128828473217 94% => OK
Participles: 0.0403225806452 0.0370669169778 109% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.84340809509 2.5805825403 110% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0201612903226 0.0208969081088 96% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00154638098197 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0846774193548 0.128158765124 66% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0201612903226 0.0158828679856 127% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0161290322581 0.0114777025283 141% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1503.0 1645.83664459 91% => OK
No of words: 221.0 271.125827815 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.80090497738 6.08160592843 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.85565412703 4.04852973271 95% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.484162895928 0.374372842146 129% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.389140271493 0.287516216867 135% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.285067873303 0.187439937562 152% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.190045248869 0.113142543107 168% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84340809509 2.5805825403 110% => OK
Unique words: 136.0 145.348785872 94% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.615384615385 0.539623497131 114% => OK
Word variations: 62.680306148 53.8517498576 116% => OK
How many sentences: 10.0 13.0529801325 77% => OK
Sentence length: 22.1 21.7502111507 102% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.6303898051 49.3711431718 60% => OK
Chars per sentence: 150.3 132.220823453 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1 21.7502111507 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.8 0.878197800319 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 3.39072847682 59% => OK
Readability: 61.0140271493 50.5018328374 121% => OK
Elegance: 1.92857142857 1.90840788429 101% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.296217261453 0.549887131256 54% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.130572739948 0.142949733639 91% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0978595098309 0.0787303798458 124% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.58747237187 0.631733273073 93% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.148720349451 0.139662658121 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.131181541198 0.266732575781 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.055795076266 0.103435571967 54% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.245227038839 0.414875509568 59% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0326519645841 0.0530846634433 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.188380891992 0.40443939384 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0349569070694 0.0528353158467 66% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.26048565121 23% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 2.0 3.49668874172 57% => OK
Negative topic words: 6.0 3.62251655629 166% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 3.1766004415 31% => OK
Total topic words: 9.0 10.2958057395 87% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.