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Two days before an earthquake struck Helice, Greece, in 373 B.C., the snakes, weasels, and worms deserted the city. Minutes before the Naples quake of 1805, oxen, sheep, dogs, and geese cried out in unison. A herd of horses tore loose and ran off in panic just prior to the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Helmut Tributsch thinks that these accounts are more than mere superstition and old wives' tales. In this book, he presents the first plausible explanation of why animals behave in unusual ways prior to the onset of an earthquake. Scientists and nonscientists alike will find fascinating reading in his unusual study.

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• Preface(p. ix)
• Acknowledgements(p. xiii)
• 1 Animals as Earthquake Predictors: Superstition or Salvation?(p. 1)
• 2 Reports and Documents About Abnormal Animal Behavior Before Earthquakes(p. 12)
• 3 Is There a Characteristic Behavior?(p. 66)
• 4 Signals from the Earth(p. 75)
• 5 The Sensitivity of Animals(p. 95)
• 6 Circumstantial Evidence for Charged Particles(p. 108)
• Searching for the Causes of Electrostatic Phenomena(p. 122)
• 8 Earthquake Fogs(p. 132)
• 9 Earthquakes and Light Phenomena(p. 143)
• 10 Earthquake Sensitivity and Weather Sensitivity(p. 155)
• 11 Discoveries and Rediscoveries(p. 173)
• 12 Earthquakes in Scripture and History(p. 185)
• 13 Needless Deaths and a Lost Opportunity(p. 203)
• 14 The Response of Science(p. 207)
• Tables(p. 219)
• References(p. 239)