[WonderMomma]

Video shows odd behavior of birds in Turkey shortly before the earthquake. I find this very interesting based on a personal experience I had.

There was a 5.8 earthquake down in Virginia on August 23, 2011 that I felt up here in SW Pennsylvania.

I have 7 parrots that were freaking out; alarm calling for about 5 minutes before. I remember running out there thinking someone was scaring them or there was hawks flying around in the sky as they were making the same calls they do when there is danger. They suddenly stopped making any noise so I turned around and went to sit back down on my bed. 30 seconds later it hit and my bed started moving. I looked outside and the stop sign was wobbling back and forth. I ran to the back of the house and the water in our pool was sloshing around spilling out of the pool.

Having lived in California for a time, I knew immediately what was going on.

[Eternally Solo]

My dogs reacted the same way. I could hear all the dogs (including mine) in the neighborhood going off the rails barking.

Then it suddenly stops. Like someone put them all on mute at once stops.

Oh, and there's earthquake weather. It's difficult to explain but I felt it right before the Landers earthquake of '92. That one was a 7.5.

Scary shit though.

[kellyhound]

Scientists are betting on a new system to alert us to impending earthquakes: birds wearing tiny backpacks.

Though no one knows precisely why, animals often act atypically before an earthquake or other disaster. Flocks of birds might migrate off course or be active at unusual times, says Martin Wikelski, an ecologist at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Ornithology and a fellow of the National Geographic Society. He directs a satellite tracking project called International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space. ICARUS will use lightweight electronic tags—affixed as backpack harnesses, leg bands, or even hats—to monitor the activity patterns of tens of thousands of birds, bats, and other creatures for irregularities that suggest an earthquake is imminent.

A global network of volunteers has started to tag animals with the devices—Wikelski calls them “wearables for wildlife”—which will track and beam their movements and other data to the International Space Station. There Russian astronauts will install the ICARUS data-gathering hardware during an upcoming space walk. The result, Wikelski hopes, will be a disaster-prediction network akin to an “internet of wings.”

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/m...g-earthquakes-

One 2020 study published in the journal Ethology found that electronically tagged cows, dogs, and sheep on an Italian farm were "superactive" before seven of eight major earthquakes that occurred nearby, moving continuously for more than 45 minutes.

"We have a very good indication that animals really feel the precursors of earthquakes, and it's not seismic activity," Martin Wikelski, a director at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and author of that study, told.

"The cows initially just froze—they didn't move at all. And then that got the dogs really nervous, and they started to go crazy, barking. And then the sheep went crazy. And that started, altogether, to make the cows really crazy."

Animals may be able to detect the shockwaves that come before the more powerful waves that cause the earthquake's damage. The U.S. Geological Survey describes how these less powerful primary "P" waves are produced by the earthquake first, traveling rapidly away from the quake site, followed later by the more powerful secondary "S" waves. It is thought that the P waves may be what animals are sensing. However, S waves usually arrive less than a minute after the P wave.

[Eternally Solo]