Can Animals Sense Earthquakes?
Have you ever felt that your animal has a sixth sense of some sort? What if that sense was animals being able to predict when earthquakes were going to happen? It has long been recorded that animals would exhibit strange behaviors before earthquakes. In the article entitled, Can Animals Sense Earthquakes? It gives examples of animals exhibiting this behavior and how it is hard to prove this. In the Greek city of Helice in 373 B.C. it was recorded that animals left the city in droves right before a huge earth quake devastated the city. The animals that left were not limited to just dogs and cats, but also rats, snakes and weasels also fled the city. How do you prove that animals can really sense something?
According to seismologists earthquakes are a totally random event and they cant possible see how animals can sense earthquakes. Some people have theorized that maybe they can sense the vibrations in the earth before humans can. I only have one objection to this argument and that is that earthquakes don’t build up over time. It’s not like they are a volcano, the tech tonic plates rub against one another and then an earthquake happens.
Japan is one of the most seismic places on earth. Scientific researchers from Japan hope to be able to find some way in which they can harness this sense, in order to save lives. More specifically in 2003 a medical doctor in Japan published a study about erratic behavior in dogs could be used to forecast earthquakes. But this turned out that forecasts (small earthquakes before the real one) predicted the quake.
Regardless whether or not scientists can figure out how or if animals can sense earthquakes, something is obviously going on. It has been recorded for a long time that animals can sense something. If I had to bet my money on it I think that animals can actually sense earthquakes.
Posted by: Andrew R. Thompson (4)
posted by PWH @ 10:16 PM
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6 Comments:
I completely agree with you! I believe that animals can detect natural disasters before they actually occur and this has been in question for years. With further research I believe this could be proven. Animals seem to have I highly instinctual and adaptive mechanism to the changes in life, much more then the humans species. So it only makes sense to me that they could provide us with some answers to poetically devastating disasters.
Posted by: Rachel McMahon (4)
Very nice topic which i wrote about this 3 weeks ago, you should read other people's blog before you post yours, cause i dont think you are suppose to write on a topic that other had wrote alrady.
Kyle Chiang(4)
This is actually a very interesting article. I had heard that animals can detect earthquakes but I never really looked into it so much thus, your article seemed really interesting to me since it talked about something I was always curious about. I think it's so cool how they can sense vibrations before the earthquake even happens, nice! Awesome article, I am probably going to do some more research on this because this seems like a really interesting topic to conduct a research on. Great job!
Posted By Peanutbutter&Jelly (PB&J)
This is crazy! How far in advance can they sense them? It would be interesting to see if anyone has done a study to see if animals do them for all earthquakes and test to see what they are sensing exactly. Knowing what they react to could possibly help us with preventative measures before an earthquake strikes.
Courtney Huffman
I agree, it would be interesting to somehow conduct a study in which an animal's behavior prior to a natural disaster was observed. On a somewhat unrelated point- do fish that normally swim near the surface of the ocean know when thunderstorms are rolling by? There are hotspots of lightning activity and it would be interesting to see if aquatic organisms have mechanisms to adapt to potentially hazardous situations.
Posted by Mayur Patel (4)
I thought it was a very interesting article and I have read articles in the past relating to animal's sense to the environment that human's arent capable of. I would be interested to know what were the behavior of the dogs studied in Japan that were defined as "erratic". Also, after the Tsunami in 2004 in the Inidan Ocean, it was noted in Sri Lanka that there were such few animal casualties. Most of them migrated up to higher elevations, which scientists hypothesized was because they sensed the terrible disaster about to happen.
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