Earthquake!

In the article, Superstitions About Quake Meet the Web, Irritating the Chinese Authorities, by Andrew Jacobs, the author is debating about being able to predict the coming of natural disasters like earthquakes. Many people in China think that there were signs of the deadly disaster that was coming, like droughts or invasions of toads. These people thought that these events were "signs" wondered why the government did not do anything about them. Because of the comments regarding the governments actions, Four people were taken to jail for spreading rumors about authorities. The culture has also been suspicious about predicting other things, like when a ruler would end his reign. The Government also even had the Bejing olympics set on a date with as many eights as possible starting them on August 8, 8-08-2008 at 8:08 pm. They did this because in their culture eight is a lucky number and they wanted as least disasters to happen as possible.