Do You Truly Know Enough About Earthquakes?

They actually hear the earth grinding. They detect more frequencies than humans. Shelley Durocher,

Animals do sense earthquakes.

10 / 12. Looks like I have a good chance of surviving an earthquake!

Perfect score. I know about earthquakes being from Chile where there are small earthquakes weekly if not daily. Those are called “ temblores” and there have been big ones of 8.4 and even 9.6 intensity, in the Richter scale. These are called “Terremotos “ Most of the houses and buildings don’t suffer because they are well built. Only when a tsunami follows the quake there is more damage but that doesn’t happen often.

Regarding the animal question, the wording is vague. I think some animals can hear it before we can, and therefore can "predict" it "for you," in a practical sense. I don't think it's a special sense necessarily, just really good hearing. * No sources, I just think it makes more practical sense.

They do indeed. Florence McKenna Hiscock,

I disagree about the animals. Before a quake in the city the birds suddenly stop singing and dogs start barking...then the shaking starts. Of course they sense a quake. They hear it deep in the earth ...we cannot detect that deep deep rumble. I always trust the animals.

11/12 I really thought that animals could probably sense a quake before humans.

rrb rb, yes! My dogs and I could hear and feel it coming.

Even though, it is stated that animals can not sense that an earthquake is about to occur, my dogs alerted me before an earthquake struck our area, years ago. It was on a fall day, and the windows were open. They, both jumped up, ears perked up, and I too could hear a wave of something coming. We all ran outdoors and sat in the middle of the yard, until it passed.

11/12, my earthquake knowledge is very good but I happen to live in the very active seismic area of Kefalonia Greece.

11/12 I was living in Dujiangyan, Sichuan, China in May 2008 when the 8.0 struck. Definitely not fun and many fatalities were my students amongst the 80,000 that perished.

11/12...yes, but would I remember all of this during an earthquake? Actually, the one earthquake I remember I did grab a support beam and held on...it wasn't a big one and didn't last long thank goodness...we have very few quakes where I live

12/12 Live on a fault line.

Trixie - Rose, There was one aroun johannesburg area about a week or two ago. Not serious though