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Can Whale Strandings Help Predict Earthquakes?

Posted February 23, 2011 8:33 AM

From TreeHugger:

Earthquakes, like the one that struck in Christchurch, New Zealand yesterday, rank among the most devastating natural disasters, capable of leveling cities and causing extensive loss of life -- largely because they are so unpredictable. On Sunday, however, less than 48 hours before the quake, 107 pilot whales beached themselves and died along the nation's shores, a phenomenon that biologists have yet to fully understand.

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02/23/2011 10:54 PM

I don't have much experience with beached whales, but I have some pretty good anecdotal and observational evidence that cockroaches are pretty good predictors of pending quakes- although understanding their timing is a bit of an issue...
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02/24/2011 12:12 PM

I have seen many beached whales off the coast of Norway, but at no time was there an earthquake afterwards?

But land based animals do have a sense when an earthquake is about to happen, the problem is trying to figure out just when will the earthquake happen, after you have observed the animals behaviour?

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