Actually, now in our modern time, they have the technology and machines that can predict an earthquake even before it happens. The countries with the best technology for that has it, like Japan. And in case you were wondering, they did predict that earthquake and evacuated everyone, the only problem was, they didn't have enough time.

Also, a lot of animals can predict and foretell when a natural disaster is about to happen, a lot of them flee or evacuate as well to somewhere safer. Ex. Elephants, cats.

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