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Figures: Amazing Animals. Right: in (A) A Cat Is Asleep in A Room

1) The document presents 10 figures summarizing experiments that reproduced anomalous animal and plant behaviors reported before earthquakes using electric or electromagnetic fields in laboratory settings. 2) These behaviors included fish and insects aligning perpendicular to electric currents, cats reacting to invisible electric discharges, some children waking before one earthquake, and plants responding to electric bursts. 3) The experiments suggest that electromagnetic anomalies generated by tectonic stress before earthquakes may be sensed by some animals and influence their behavior, offering a possible explanation for certain earthquake precursors.

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Figures: Amazing Animals. Right: in (A) A Cat Is Asleep in A Room

1) The document presents 10 figures summarizing experiments that reproduced anomalous animal and plant behaviors reported before earthquakes using electric or electromagnetic fields in laboratory settings. 2) These behaviors included fish and insects aligning perpendicular to electric currents, cats reacting to invisible electric discharges, some children waking before one earthquake, and plants responding to electric bursts. 3) The experiments suggest that electromagnetic anomalies generated by tectonic stress before earthquakes may be sensed by some animals and influence their behavior, offering a possible explanation for certain earthquake precursors.

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FIGURES

Figure 1

Reports that “fish and bugs aligned themselves in the same direction and jumped around before
an earthquake” were reproduced in laboratory electric field experiments. We assumed they all
quickly moved perpendicular to the electric current
to minimize tissue discomfort, or tried to escape the
current by jumping.
Left: Minnows, after ap-
plication of a pulsed electric
field in a lab. experiment.
Beforehand the fish were
swimming in random direc-
tions in the tank. Afterwards,
they turned sideways-on to the electric current.
Right: Experiments on silkworms (bugs) showed the same thing (a) silkworms initially placed
(b) re-aligning perpendicular to the direction of an introduced electric field.

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Figure 2

The sensitivity of cats to electric discharges was shown in


a TBS (Tokyo Broadcasting System, Inc.) TV program called
Amazing Animals. Right: In (a) a cat is asleep in a room
adjacent to a van der Graaff generator. In (b) it reacts to an
inaudible electromagnetic discharge. In (c) it shuts its eyes
after each discharge. In (d) it leaves the room meowing in a
distressed way carrying its owner’s socks in its mouth (as it
would remove its kittens to protect them). A weather proverb
says When a cat washes her face it’s going to rain. A cat’s
eyes and whiskers are conductors of electricity, and it is quite
possible a cat can detect an approaching thunderstorm 100km
away. If it is moving at 20-30kph there will be rain in 3-5 hours. Similar washing behavior before
earthquakes may be in response to EM fields.
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a Figure 3
(a) A map of Western Japan and (b) the Kansai
area, showing proportions of student survey respon-
dents who woke up before the M7 Kobe Earthquake
at 5.46am January 17, 1995. They were not normal-
ly awake at this hour.
Twenty percent of children within 100km from the
Kobe epicenter woke more than a minute before the
b
quake. Beyond 100km the response was no differ-
ent from zero. Some students (8-10 years old at the
time of the quake) said they were so scared they
got into their mothers’ beds. A chi-squared statistical
test showed this 20% effect would be chance only
one time in a trillion.
In Izmit, just before the 1999 earthquake a boy
woke his parents, crying. His mother said she heard
dogs howling like wolves and then the earthquake
struck. They left their house just before it collapsed.
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Figure 4
Earthquake Clouds: a
Another proverb goes: Fine weather fogs shroud the mountains
before an earthquake.
Earthquake clouds (strange cloud formations) have been reported
before earthquakes. (a) shows a photo of a tornado cloud, taken the
evening before the 5.45am Kobe Earthquake in 1995.
Professor Ikeya’s team was also able to form fog (clouds) by
creating intense electric fields in a super-cooled environment in b
the laboratory. In (b) clouds spread radially from the anode to the
cathode. In (c) Professor Ikeya produces tornado-like (dragon-like)
clouds by applying increasing voltages between a needle electrode
and an upper gounded sphere. (In a supercooled atmosphere water
droplets are produced in an electric field.)
Some people have linked autumn cirrus (parallel bands of cloud)
seen from weather satellites to earthquakes in those locations and c
call them “earthquake clouds”.

Earthquake Light (EQL)


Earthquake light is the various shapes and colours of light that
appear on the ground or in the sky at the time of earthquakes and
sometimes before. There are historical and recent accounts of EQL.
(d) shows a photo of EQL taken before the Kobe Earthquake. This is
not dawn; it was winter and the EQL was to the west. d
A fault generating an intense electric field can explain legendary
and contemporary reports of these unusual lights, clouds and fogs
and other phenomena in the atmosphere and sky before large
earthquakes.
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Figure 5
Electromagnetic pulses from a Van de Graaf generator
brought a stag beetle out of hibernation from its winter
bed of sawdust, right.
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Figure 6
The catfish is normally horizontal and motionless in water, waiting
for its prey. 20 hours before the Geiyo earthquake (Magnitude 6.7,
2001) this catfish, 240km from the epicenter, thrashed violently in
its tank. Professor Ikeya and his students reproduced the same
behavior in the laboratory (right) by creating an electric field in the
tank.
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Figure 7
Subjected to bursts of high voltage in
the laboratory the mimosa plant (normal
in (a)), closes its leaves (b).
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Figure 8
There is a Japanese proverb which goes: Candle flames on temple altars
bend like archery bows before earthquakes. We were able to reproduce this
phenomenon in the laboratory (see right). Candle flame is plasma composed
of positive and negative ions and the flame is attracted down towards a strong
electric field.

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Figure 9
Two hours before the Ansei-
Edo (Tokyo) earthquake (1855),
a string of iron nails permanently
attached to a large magnetic
stone in a Tokyo store window
display dropped off. The
incident was reported in the
Ansei Chronicle and led to the
construction of an earthquake
prediction device. Some scientists
later attributed the phenomenon
to a magnetic anomaly. However,
the variation in the earth’s
magnetic field is very small
before earthquakes so it may be
attributable instead to magnetic disruption by an EM field generated by tectonic stresses preceding
the quake. This same effect was produced in the laboratory in an electric discharge experiment.
An earthquake forecasting device called EQ SIGN based on the early model is now on the market.
Above left. (a) a drawing in the Ansei Chronicle of the period, of the earthquake prediction de-
vice and (b) a recent reproduction in the laboratory. Right: A string of nails about to drop from a
magnet on the introduction of an electric field.
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Figure 10
A Japanese proverb says, When chickens do not eat, look doubtful and cock their heads in
thought, there will be an earthquake.The (video) photos show hens feeding normally at a chicken
farm before (left) and during
(right) electric discharges
from a Wimshurst generator.
(Though the discharges
made a noise it was not
considered loud enough
to cause the reaction that
followed.) After the pulses
began, about 4000 hens fell
silent, stopped eating, poked
their heads out of their cages and watched the experimenter.
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