[EAS] Earthquake Warning

[Milton Holladay jr.]

Sadly, Jim Berkland died a month or two ago (_The Man Who Predicts 
Eawthquakes_). Animal observation was one input to his formula..............

(He predicted the Loma Prieta quake, among others, and lost his job for it.)

M

On 9/25/2016 12:32 AM, Bill Ruck wrote:
> In 1989 in the morning our African Finches were going nuts.  Could
> not figure out why.  Later that day we had our shaker.
>
> Since then we now have parrots.  They do not appear to be as capable
> of early prediction as the finches.  They do go nuts when we have an
> earthquake, though.  Last time was the Napa quake.  We were at the
> Ruck Estates in Lompico, Santa Cruz County (and directly above the
> Loma Prieta fault) and both Lucy, our Senegal, and Harlan, our Grey,
> went nuts.  They woke us up, and not the earthquake.
>
> On the other hand, being third generation San Franciscan, it takes a
> lot more than a 3.0 to wake me.
>
> Bill Ruck
> San Francisco
>
> At 09:44 PM 9/23/2016, you wrote:
>> Cats too!
>>
>> Adrienne
>>
>>> On Sep 23, 2016, at 7:02 PM, Robertm <bcstlists at icloud.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Interestingly enough our ancestors had an early warning system.
>> Over the time they observed that dogs went crazy just before a
>> quake. Basically they were responding to the same supersonic
>> pre-tremors that EEW is exploiting. So if you want EEW with low
>> latency, stay close to your dog.
>

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