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Originally Posted by Dee8go
Bot, do you know if it's true that animals and insects sense approaching eathquakes before scientific instruments do? It seems like this book or article mentioned studies being done with cockroaches. I think iI read that in a book somewhere.  If it was in a book, it must be true . . . |
I think the Japanese have done the most active research on this which makes sense--they have a whole lot of earthquakes. In my recollection, they could find no difference in the frequency of animal behavior correctly predicting vs incorrectly predicting earthquakes -- regardless of magnitude.
OTOH, there are several stories about herds of elephants heading to high ground well ahead of the awful tsunami that struck Thailand & Indonesia. I could imagine that elephant's ears, sensitive to low frequencies, combined with elephant brains might hear an approaching tsunami and freak-the-f**k-out (that's scientific terminology) and run uphill.