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The system is chaotic so even in principle it’s likely impossible.
by jamiek88 3y ago
The system is chaotic so even in principle it’s likely impossible.
- lxgr 3y agoThen again, groups of animals seem to be able to predict earthquakes and volcanic eruptions hours ahead of time: https://www.icarus.mpg.de/11706/a-four-legged-early-warning-system https://www.icarus.mpg.de/11706/a-four-legged-early-warning-... There are also reports of pretty interesting/odd electromagnetic phenomena reaching up to the ionosphere, which might be what animals are ultimately sensing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_light https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_light A lot of these videos might be transformers blowing out or swinging power lines touching, but given the ubiquity of surveillance cameras and dashcams, we're fortunately getting more and more data. If there's something there that can be used for prediction better than seconds ahead of the earthquake, the value would obviously be immense. It might of course be that animals are reacting to something else, like sulphuric gases being released from the ground, infrasound of early earthquake acitivty etc. – we just don't know enough about it yet, but the fact that there's correlation between animal behavior and seismic activity seems worth studying.
- singularity2001 3y agoVolcanic eruptions are predictable