As many know, we have had a rather large number of Earth Quakes in the area that I’m located in now. So this has become something I’ve become pretty interested in as an EARLY warning for a Earth Quake would be nice to know.
The BBC had a great piece this morning on How animals predict earthquakes. It seems back in 2009, some researches began investigating a colony of toads that abandon a pond in L’Aquila Italy just days before a quake.
We have all heard for years about animals acting strangely before a quake, sometimes hours or days before the event. No one has had a clue as to why. That’s until NOW, researchers are saying that the animals may sense chemical changes in the ground water that occur when a quake is about to strike.
The teams findings were published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health [PDF].
Scientists are scrambling to understand all of the signals they are seeing and how they are connected. All of this study is in it’s very early stages but really pretty promising…
Source: BBC