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Earthquakes and animals : from folk legends to science / Motoji Ikeya.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, c2004.Description: xix, 295 pages : illustrations (some colored) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9812385916 (hbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QE538.8  Ik3 2004
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Contents:
Legends of unusual phenomena before earthquakes - wisdom or superstition? -- Precursors before recent earthquakes - Kobe, Izmit, Taiwan and India -- Earth sciences and electromagnetism -- Unusual animal behavior: I what do they detect? - electric field effects -- Unusual animal behavior: II - rock compression and increased animal activity -- Unusual plant responses before earthquakes -- Precursor phenomena - on land, sea and elsewhere -- Mysteries before earthquakes: - the behavior of electric appliances -- Forecasting using animal monitoring -- Monitoring seismo-electromagnetic signals (SEMS) - a general survey -- Summary -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2
Summary: “Those who experience major earthquakes often report the occurrence of mysterious phenomena beforehand, particularly unusual animal behavior, but also puzzling effects on plants, unusual light, distinctive clouds, and, increasingly, malfunctioning domestic appliances. Many of these stories are legendary the world over. But are they merely legends? Are the many people who report them just superstitious, naive or suggestible? Earthquakes and Animals brings science to bear on these old legends - not the popular and suspect science that attempts for instance, to validate the sightings of UFOs or crop circles or the Loch Ness monster, but the science of a University Laboratory. Earthquakes and Animals places in front of the reader the simple laboratory evidence of the behavior of animals, plants and objects when they are subjected to intense electromagnetic pulses - of the kind created by rocks under stress before an earthquake. In many cases they behave in ways that been recorded for centuries - and are still reported today - as earthquake-related. Written for both the general public and scientists, Earthquakes and Animals demonstrates, using many experiments, that the old earthquake legends are probably rare natural phenomena. It is also adds tantalisingly to the science of earthquake forecasting and cautiously suggests a legitimate new field of study - Electromagnetic Seismology.”--Back cover
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RUS QE28.2 P73 2003 Physical geology / RUS QE28.2 T17 1996 Earth : an introduction to physical geology / RUS QE28.3 R33 2019 Exploring earth science / RUS QE538.8 Ik3 2004 Earthquakes and animals : from folk legends to science / RUS QH90.57 B5Ec7 2015 Ecological water treatment and management / RUS QH307.2 St2 1991 Biology : concepts and applications / RUS QH307.2 St2 1994 Biology : concepts and applications /

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-282) and index.

Legends of unusual phenomena before earthquakes - wisdom or superstition? -- Precursors before recent earthquakes - Kobe, Izmit, Taiwan and India -- Earth sciences and electromagnetism -- Unusual animal behavior: I what do they detect? - electric field effects -- Unusual animal behavior: II - rock compression and increased animal activity -- Unusual plant responses before earthquakes -- Precursor phenomena - on land, sea and elsewhere -- Mysteries before earthquakes: - the behavior of electric appliances -- Forecasting using animal monitoring -- Monitoring seismo-electromagnetic signals (SEMS) - a general survey -- Summary -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2

“Those who experience major earthquakes often report the occurrence of mysterious phenomena beforehand, particularly unusual animal behavior, but also puzzling effects on plants, unusual light, distinctive clouds, and, increasingly, malfunctioning domestic appliances. Many of these stories are legendary the world over. But are they merely legends? Are the many people who report them just superstitious, naive or suggestible? Earthquakes and Animals brings science to bear on these old legends - not the popular and suspect science that attempts for instance, to validate the sightings of UFOs or crop circles or the Loch Ness monster, but the science of a University Laboratory. Earthquakes and Animals places in front of the reader the simple laboratory evidence of the behavior of animals, plants and objects when they are subjected to intense electromagnetic pulses - of the kind created by rocks under stress before an earthquake. In many cases they behave in ways that been recorded for centuries - and are still reported today - as earthquake-related. Written for both the general public and scientists, Earthquakes and Animals demonstrates, using many experiments, that the old earthquake legends are probably rare natural phenomena. It is also adds tantalisingly to the science of earthquake forecasting and cautiously suggests a legitimate new field of study - Electromagnetic Seismology.”--Back cover

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