This amazing footage is from an Arcata, California news station. We don't know why a dog was in the news room, but the canine knew
something was up several seconds before any humans could feel the earthquake that shook northern California on Saturday.
From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Geekazoid.
Poor dog...his panicked run just breaks my heart.
The dog bolted away from the direction of the shaking.
My cockatiel can quakes a few seconds before I can too.
Even the wimpiest ones freak him out.
I woke up before the Northridge quake, about 10 seconds before we felt the shaking. Something felt weird, there was a low bass pulse which is usually, in Los Angeles, a helicopter. In this case it was the pressure wave of the quake. Makes perfect sense that a dog can hear that.
Humans understand what's going on, animals do not understand. They just feel the shaking and run for cover. It's not like they can think "Well dang, this earthquake is nasty, better get under some shelter" It's more like *rumble rumble* "OMG WTF" *RUNS!* That's why I feel particular sympathy for them.
I hope the dog was okay.
2. there was an earthquake in the bay area but I believe it was a day or so prior to the one shown, maybe a series of small one's up here (northern CA)
3. the dog only knew by seconds or sensed it by seconds
4. where did the dog go? (the people ran the opposite direction)
5. curious- why was the dog at work? did he get paid?
Early Earthquake warning vs Brains during earthquake = brains still win.
Since the P-Waves are compressional, you cannot see any visual evidence of them because the occur in a bump-like manner. The latter S-waves are longitudinal waves that you can see in the video. The time gap between the P and S Waves is how we determine the distance from the epicenter. Triangulating those various distances is how you determine the epicenter location and depth.
It's not that they can predict an earthquake, rather they can sense P-waves that many times we ignore or think are something else.
Give the dog a pat from me.
http://www.dagbladet.no/2010/01/14/nyheter/haiti/utenriks/9919202/
Mark, what do the P-waves feel like if we weren't ignoring them? And is it any different than, say, the rumbling caused by a train passing, a diesel truck idling outside or a dozen other sensations that we routinely ignore?