Animal ESP A Good Earthquake Predictor
The ability of animals to "sense" earthquakes before they happen has created the impression that certain species have a kind of extra-sensory perception, writes David Montgomery.
What is becoming clearer is that what they in fact possess is an extra sense that humans lack. The latest research from Stanford University makes it more likely that this "perception" is the ability to feel and understand vibrations that are transmitted through the ground.
In 1975, thousands of people were evacuated from Haicheng, China, shortly before a large earthquake struck the city.
With geologists largely unable to produce precise information on impending quakes, the Chinese authorities were alerted by the strange behaviour of animals such as rats, snakes, birds, cows and horses.
Officials believe these animals could feel seismic pre-shocks which went undetected even by the most sensitive equipment.
Other species have also been observed behaving strangely in the run-up to an earthquake. Some fish - catfish in particular - are reputed to become agitated before earthquakes, and at times have been reported actually to leap out of the water and on to dry land.
Snakes have been known to leave their underground places of hibernation in the middle of the winter prior to tremors, only to be found frozen on the surface of the snow.
Mice are commonly reported to appear dazed before earthquakes and allow themselves to be captured easily by hand.
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