1. Problem: Some earthquake survivors claim that they observed abnormal animal behaviors prior to the earthquakes. Do animals have a special ability to predict earthquake? If they do, how can we use it to develop a new prediction method?
3. Hypothesis
1.Long time evolution process equipped animals with special alarming system for occurrence of devastating earthquakes to survive such earthquakes.
2.Animals are more sensitive to the changes in nature than humans. Therefore, these animals can “sense” occurrences of earthquakes better than us.
4. Prediction of the outcome of each Hypothesis:
Animal Behaviors as a way to predict earthquakes
1. Problem: Some earthquake survivors claim that they observed abnormal animal behaviors prior to the earthquakes. Do animals have a special ability to predict earthquake? If they do, how can we use it to develop a new prediction method?
2. Data: Reported abnormal animal behaviors prior to earthquakes.
COUNTRY YEAR CITY SCALE Reported Animal Behaviors CHINA 1966 Hsingtai County M.6.8 "All the dogs at a village near the epicenter had deserted thei...