At 19:11 on March 28, a 4.2-magnitude earthquake occurred in Yuanping City, Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province. After the quake, reporters learned that on the 26th, Zhao Hongpeng, a 57-year-old farmer from Fenxi County in our province, had made a relatively accurate prediction of this earthquake and promptly reported it to the relevant departments. On May 10, 2008, he also predicted to his fellow villagers: There would be a major earthquake in the country in two days, but the location was unknown.
More surprisingly, this earth expert who created the miracle of earthquake prediction only attended a few years of primary school, had no instruments, and relied solely on his naked eyes and 30 years of experience observing celestial phenomena.
A Miracle of an Individual