Environmentalists are dismissing rumours of an impending earthquake in the country that were sparked off after thousands of small frogs swarmed residences in Moratuwa last week.

Residents of Indibeda, Moratuwa panicked when thousands of frogs converged in the area, entering the houses and roaming the streets. A similar phenomenon had occurred in China a couple of years back and was dismissed as a natural migration but just a few days later, the region was rocked by a 7.8 magnitude quake. This information resulted in several wild theories of an earthquake in Sri Lanka within the next couple of days.

Noted environmentalist Jagath Gunewardene dismissed these rumours and assured that investigations had been carried out into the phenomenon. Environmentalists have now come to the conclusion that it was the drastic climate change that was the cause for the incident.

"It is really a climate change that triggers this sort of thing - this sort of phenomenon has been recorded before in other countries where a large number of amphibians come out their habitats and go in search of new habitats in anticipation of a weather change. This occurred early in the morning and sure enough, torrential downpours in Colombo followed just a couple of hours later", Gunewardene explained.

There have been no reports of any more swarming occurring after the initial report last week.

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