Does your dog predict an earthquake

[MVons]

I know other locations do have earthquakes besides the busy faults in CA. I wondered if anyone's dog has done something to have you think they felt the earthquake coming.

The San Diego Zoo has some animals that get restless right before an earthquake is felt.

My dog was so senior it took our windows rattling to wake her up and she looked at me during a quake jolt, like "what is going on". Then she just settled back down. She never woke on the quake rolls, just the jolts.

It will be interesting to see our puppy respond as we are surrounded by three faults. One fault has the jolts that are un-nerving, and remember I'm a native, but the other fault rolls or sways us and we just watch the items hanging from our ceiling sway, or we are rocked to sleep. Advice - never be on a 2nd story wooden deck in an earthquake unless you like roller coaster rides.

Merrie

[bayoucorgi]

HI Merrie, as a Lancaster native (straddling the San Andreas fault), and one who remembers Sylmar 71, Whittier, and who happened to be on the 11th floor of the Holiday Inn, Bay Bridge for Loma Prieta, I am happier to dodge hurricanes in Houston than wait for the "big one". I went to school in Northridge, but was long gone when that one hit.

My pets always slept through the little ones and fell off the beds in the big rockers. The horses ran around all psycho. But, I think the pets really don't figure out that it's different - their worlds shake more than ours on a regular basis.

I do have post-traumatic earthquake syndrome. My family took me out to the Texas City Dike pier to fish last weekend and the pier sways in the wind. I sat there for about 20 minutes looking absolutely petrified, and finally told them they would have to continue without me and I went back to the car. It was too freaky.

[MVons]

Last night, a magnitude 4.2 earthquake rattled the Indio area at 10:11 p.m. Friday. And we felt it on the mountain. My armoire doors rattled in our bedroom. My husband said it felt like a circle roll, not the bad jolt type. I can see our little puppy doing a little bark, or just sleeping through. Yesterday it was our first humid day is a long time and I swear we get more earthquakes at that weather.

Pam am I right that you don't seem to be the type that like a suspension, swaying bridge?

Capilano Suspension Bridge in Vancouver, First built in 1889, the swinging bridge hangs 230 above and 450 feet across the waters of the Capilano River. With my fear of heights, I was too chicken to see this, but now if I was in the area, I might be brave.

Merrie

[MissGambler's+Mojo'sMommy]

MVONS: Not only does it always seem humid, but I've actually read a study that on the days where the big ones struck there was the same peculiar haze in the sky prior. My husband totally sleeps through them, whereas I run around for a who knows what. I find myself scrambling for items, and never getting anything. The first time when one hit after getting MissGambler, I was so proud of myself, I ran from the living room and grabbed Miss Gambler, who had been in her crate. So I guess that makes me a good Mommy :SMILE: Then when Miss Gambler was trained and the small ones would hit(ones that sometimes I don't even feel but see on the tv that we've had one), she would run under the bed. Now, she can't fit under the bed, but she still goes to it and lies down with her nose under it, as if she's still protected. :NAH:

[Penutsma]

Only earthquake I was ever in was in Auburn, WA about 6-7 years ago. I wasn't home, but my daughter told me that she and the animals slept through it!

[taflar]

I've only felt the effects of an earthquake twice. Once in Denver, CO and once in SLC, Utah. Both times my dogs did absolutly nothing. No warning, nada. In Denver it was early morning and they did the same thing I did, woke up, looked around and went back to sleep. (I was thinking the wind was blowing rather hard).

In Utah, I was up late watching tv and doing cross stitch. The plant swayed, my BIS Brace ribbons on my wall swayed and that was it. Dogs and cats all stayed asleep.

Now, maybe if they were earthquakes where there might have been cause for alarm they might have alerted to something. Maybe they knew it wasn't close enough?

Peggy