THE BIGGEST MYSTERY ….CAN ANIMALS PREDICT THE UNPREDICTABLE ???
Earthquakes are a sudden phenomenon. Seismologists have no way of knowing exactly when or where the next one will hit.
We can’t tell when an earthquake is about to strike, but some people believe other animals can. Most scientists say no, but a few aren’t so sure. There have been hundreds of reports of cats, dogs, cockroaches, and rats becoming disoriented and disturbed prior to earthquakes.
FEW REPORTED INCIDENT…
1) In 1975, people reported in northeastern China mice and rabbits leaving their burrows and snakes coming out of hibernation in the middle of the winter before a huge earthquake occurred.
2) The night before the big 1906 earthquake, horses in San Francisco grew panicky.
3) Other signs from animals that an earthquake is coming includes birds flying in circles, dogs barking for hours and elephants starting to run.
4) The day before the 1964 Good Friday Earthquake, Alaska’s Kodiak bears came out of hibernation weeks before schedule.
Consistent and reliable behavior prior to seismic events, and a mechanism explaining how it could work, still eludes us. Most, but not all, scientists pursuing this mystery are in China or Japan.
We can easily explain the cause of unusual animal behavior seconds before humans feel an earthquake. Very few humans notice the smaller P wave that travels the fastest from the earthquake source and arrives before the larger S wave. But many animals with more keen senses are able to feel the P wave seconds before the S wave arrives.
However, much research still needs to be done on this subject.
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