Earthquakes and animals: opportunities and prospective
Abstract
Iberoamerican in the course of history has been part of the largest earthquakes that have occurred on the planet. Just mention on the side of the peninsula, the Lisbon earthquake occurred in the year 1755. On the side of Latin America, the earthquake in Chile occurred in 2010. These events and occurred in the rest of the world have awakened the interest of the scientific community in the context of developing prevention or prediction models. Earthquakes according to the theory of elastic fracture can be anticipated; early detection of these phenomena is possible due to the accumulated internal energy that is released in the form of seismic waves received by earthquake-receptor species as Lumbricus terrestris Linnaeus. In this logic, it is proposed to assess the potential of this species earthquake-receptor in early detection of earthquakes. Methodologically, the study used a comprehensive review of literature, which allowed an approach to state of the art the object of study. It is concluded that indeed L. terrestres is a species able to anticipate earthquakes.
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