Articles | Volume 10, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-10-1951-2010
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.Recent aspects on possible interrelation between precursory electric signals and anomalous bioeffects
Abstract. A possible geophysical mechanism based on the conception of criticality and on new aspects of biological effects caused by electromagnetic fields is discussed as a stimulus to the unusual animal behavior prior to large earthquakes. This mechanism is related to transient electric signals of low frequency and intensity, which are emitted from the pre-focal area several days before the impending earthquake and fulfill all the conditions set by a recent bioeffect model.