Earthquakes are notoriously hard to predict, but dogs could help bridge the gap.
A device that dogs wear on their collar could finally make use of thousands of years of anecdotes detailing a change in behavior in animals at the precipice of an earthquake.
"The idea is that if we can track the behavior and the anxiety levels of animals...and then we use AI and machine learning advanced models to correlate that with geophysical data like earthquakes of different magnitudes," Dagan said.The company sought pet owners spread across a geographical area who volunteered to have their dog wear the smart collar.
The public perception widely views abnormal animal behavior as a potential precursor to an earthquake, according to the paper. Scientists are still searching for consistent and reliable behavior among animals prior to a seismic event, according to the USGS.Researchers from Germany filmed red wood ants that nest along a fault line in the Neuwied Basin, a seismically active region in Eifel, Germany, and studied the ants’ behavior hours before the earthquake, according to a 2013 study.
"Dogs are particularly useful models of this phenomenon due to their acute senses and their close proximity to humans," Rachell Grant, behavioral ecologist at London South Bank University and lead for the Animal Alert project, said in a statement.Dogs can smell odors and hear high-pitched noises undetectable to humans, giving them the ability to sense things outside human perception, according to the American Kennel Club.
Very few humans notice the smaller "P" waves, which arrive before the larger "S" waves, the USGS said.
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