Can animals really predict earthquakes?

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  • There was a PBS program ‘Nature’, just aired a couple of weeks ago, about whether animals can predict nature disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis. Whether animals can predict earthquakes is not conclusive. But there’s a scientist in Berkeley (forgot his name) claimed he had predicted earthquakes accurately in the last few decades. What he used was simply newspaper ads on missing pets. He said normally you’d see about 10-15 missing pets ads, but before earthquakes, the missing pets ads would increase. His theory is contraversial, but it’s worth a try. You may want to test that theory.

    The program also mentioned about the terrible tsunami in Asia over a year ago. It mentioned none of the animals got harmed since they ‘knew’ the waves were coming and escaped from the disaster.

    One theory is that animals can hear low frequency sound from beneath the earth, like grinding sound of moving rocks.

    Anyway, you’ll find some interesting programs on PBS stations.

  • Evidence from the recent Tsunami indicates that they might:

    “Sri Lankan wildlife officials are stunned — the worst tsunami in memory has killed around 22,000 people along the Indian Ocean island’s coast, but they can’t find any dead animals.” -http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6765999/

    “Before giant waves slammed into Sri Lanka and India coastlines ten days ago, wild and domestic animals seemed to know what was about to happen and fled to safety.” -http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/…

    Source(s):
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6765999/

  • I’ve always had cats. They typically run (quite fast – as though being chased by a crazed 6-year old) in the direction opposite an earthquake about 3-5 seconds before it “hits”. Not a whole lot of warning though!

  • i personally think that “predict” is not the right word in this context.

    if we reframe this question as:
    “can animals sense oncoming earthquakes (or such related natural movements)”

    see how it makes a huge difference?

  • sort of, they have an inate sense of what is going on in nature, etc.

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