Michael Cash <mikecash@buggerallspammers.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 19:19:33 GMT, "necoandjeff" <spam@schrepfer.com>
> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:

>>> behaviour and earthquakes until my girlfriend mentioned it. I guess we'll
>>> just have to see if anything happens!

>>Well, I'm convinced. You and your girlfriend are obviously really on to
>>something here. How cool. Your very own early earthquake detector. Can you
>>teach us how to read the birds too so that we'll all be safe from
>>earthquakes?

> http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/a/augury.html

http://www.geocities.com/sweetspirit_2002/earth.html
cited from
http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ozsvath/lectures/Earthquakes.htm

"What causes earthquake lights?

The most common explanation for earthquake lights is the piezoelectric
effect in quartz-bearing rock. Quartz has the unique attribute of
emitting electricity under pressure. Laboratory experiments have shown
that this effect can produce light emissions, but they are, at least in
the laboratory, of much shorter duration than reported earthquake
lights.

Some researchers theorize that earthquake lights are produced by seismic
stresses that may generate high voltages that create small masses of
ionized gas, which are then released into the air near the fault line."

Not surprising that certain animals might be more sensitive to certain
of these phenomena.

Mike