Author: Naomi Georges
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Nature’s Seismometers: Can animals predict earthquakes better than we can?
Earthquakes have had worldwide implications: destroying infrastructure, displacing populations, and disrupting society. Earthquakes are particularly devastating because they cannot be predicted. What if there was a way to warn communities using the very animals that live within them? An early account from 373 BC reports that burrowing animals (like snakes, weasels, and rats) fled to…