Apart from the
early warning seismology that tsunami warning centers (TWCs) provide when
countries suffer the worst earthquakes particularly California, Japan,
Indonesia, Italy and Greece there is help already available. German research
with HR cameras has begun to check these species that show vivid reaction to
early signs of quakes.
We know that
carbon dioxide gas is released below ground where the great plates are scraping
against each other. We know that sound and vibration can be carried through the
earth itself. Some of these signals are picked up by ants, as described by
Gabriele Berberich of the University of Duisburg-Essen in her paper; recently
presented at the European Geosciences Union annual meeting in Vienna.
The Tyler Group
Barcelona research as hinted in the paper’s title, “Biological Anomalies Prior
to Earthquakes,” many other animals such as the obviously close-to-the-ground
snakes and mammals have also been recorded in their particular actions. One
advantage of using ants is that they are so easily observed another is their
proximity to the source of the detectable changes; another is their extreme
sensitivity, using of course, and many small individual “sensors” in the form
of workers...
