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Hundreds of earthworms surfacing around Indonesia

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Hundreds of earthworms surfacing around Indonesia
Hundreds of earthworms surfacing around Indonesia
Footage shows massive amount of earthworms emerging. Video credit: Iswanto

VIDEO SHOWS: EARTHWORMS MOVING ALONG CONCRETE CURB SHOWS, KLATEN REGENCY, CENTRAL JAVA, INDONESIA (APRIL 18, 2020) (ORIGINALLY SHOT IN PORTRAIT) (ISWANTO - NO RESALE / MUST ON SCREEN COURTESY ISWANTO) 1.

HUNDREDS OF WORMS ON SURFACE OF GROUND, MOVING IN A LINE STORY: Eyewitness footage shows hundreds of earthworms surfacing in Indonesia's Central Java on Saturday (April 18).

Videographer Iswanto who witnessed the unusual phenomenon in Central Java's Klaten Regency, told Reuters the worms appeared in the morning and the video has since gone viral.

Environment experts speaking to local media speculated that the worms could be escaping the ground due to the chemicals used during the COVID-19 disinfection that could have changed the condition of the soil.

The head of Earthquake and Tsunami Mitigation for Indonesia's geophysics agency BMKG said on Instagram that not all emergence of earthworms will precede an earthquake, after internet users commented that mass earthworms appeared before China's quake in 1975 and Taiwan's 1999 tremor.

(Production: Nur-Azna Sanusi)

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