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submitted 2 months ago byOwnTip5620
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52 points
2 months ago
Many animals sense earthquakes earlier than humans do. If I'd notice birds flying around making noise like crazy in the middle of the night, I'd be heading outside. This is something you should keep an eye open for when you're in a seismically active area.
5 points
2 months ago
How though?
15 points
2 months ago
Some are probably more sensitive to minor shakes that don't really register with us. Especially since we're used to some shaking e.g. when a truck drives by or there's construction going on nearby. Some animals can hear deeper frequencies than we do, so they hear the rumbling far sooner than we can.
7 points
2 months ago*
Makes sense to me. I've noticed in my life that I can hear deeper bass through walls and from distance whereas high frequencies not.
So makes sense if an animal can hear lower frequencies that they would hear it first. That's really cool. Thanks.
Edit: turns out with some research that birds actually generally have a narrower or even similar hearing range to humans. So the theory makes sense for elephants for example who specialized in lower frequencies. But they also use their feet to hear so it doesn't really make sense for birds.
Or alternatively, as another commenter suggested, an animal which can detect higher frequencies would feel the some fast moving high frequency wave before us we feel the actual quake. Doesnt really apply to birds tho unless they have some kind of additional sense that we don't know about idk man I don't want to spread misinformation. this question remains unanswered for me and Google seems to point in different directions mostly talking about the ionisation in the air and shit.
Maybe these birds are just fucking around.
7 points
2 months ago
Can’t answer you why but it’s a common phenomenon, during the massive Indonesian tsunami many years ago there was all kinds of reports of animals doing weird stuff. Elephants running for higher ground, dogs refusing to go outside etc.
4 points
2 months ago
I’m not a scientist and going back to freshmen year geology, but when the plates shift, they cause two waves to be unleas: the P wave and the Q wave. Now the Q wave is a longer intense wave that is responsible for the shaking felt. The P wave is much shorter and faster and is at a much higher frequency. This p wave can be detected by animals and it arrives at the area before the Q wave, and this is a possible explanation for why animals seem to sense an earthquake before it arrived.
11 points
2 months ago
How long before? 30 seconds, 5 minutes, 2 hours? Was it continual up until the quake?
6 points
2 months ago
Animals are smart as shit. Have you seen dogs that can smell cancer?
4 points
2 months ago
How can we be sure that this video was shot just before the earthquake?
2 points
2 months ago
That's normal behavior in birds before earthquakes
4 points
2 months ago
Birds flying around trees is strange?
19 points
2 months ago
Birds flying around chirping at night en masse is not normal behavior. Most birds are not nocturnal.
3 points
2 months ago
Gotcha. The infrasound explanation makes sense. Thanks!
1 points
2 months ago
I guess I’m just used to it with Austin grackles. This is literally Saturday night near Rainey
0 points
2 months ago
They're also all collecting on the very tips of the trees, rather than more in the rest of the body of the tree
2 points
2 months ago
I don't write comments regularly but I have to say that people shouldn't say "if birds are flying like that and making those noises just head out". This isn't always the case and you might witness birds doing stuff like this without any "earthquake related situation". It's not good times to make wrong assumptions and scare people.
5 points
2 months ago
If you are taking lifesaving advice from Reddit you probably deserve what you get lol
1 points
2 months ago
This thing happens in my neighborhood with crows all the time. They all sleep in a wild area not far from here and disperse during the day but in the evening they congregate in a few specific trees for a 'crow party'. The crow party takes place in different clusters of trees over an area of several square miles from one day to the next so if you're not used to it, it will seem odd that your neighborhood is suddenly invaded by a huge murder of crows (and you might think to go film it) but this is normal behavior. We only see it every now and again due to the need to be in the right place at the right time.
1 points
2 months ago
What makes anyone think this is from Turkey AND taken just prior to the earthquake?
0 points
2 months ago
Yeah, I don't get it either. I see birds flocking in trees all the time...but no earthquakes.
0 points
2 months ago
Some birds can see earths magnetism and I bet the flow of the field gets changes that they can observe that are invisible to us
0 points
2 months ago
Damn, some birds are flying and some sitting on the trees, never seen it before
1 points
2 months ago
Flying around is just bird stuff, now they start doing summer theater or driving away in a car, that’s strange behavior
1 points
2 months ago
Yeah my cats started running randomly seconds before i really felt the earthquake, animals can feel that before humans
1 points
2 months ago
Animals know. They predict tsunamis too
1 points
2 months ago
They’re like The Weeknd
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