Dogs and earthquakes

[bearmgc]

What experiences have folks had with dogs reacting to earthquakes? Say a quake 50mi away, that is a 4.0 magnitude, or even farther away? I've had some experiences with my dogs acting up, particularily my lab, and sure enough, checking the USGS, finding out there was a quake within 2hrs or so of my location.
I'm curious. Any dogs more prone to reacting than others in your experience?

[pastorp]

bearmgc, We get quite a few tremors here in SE alaska. I don't have a dog since I moved here  but I can tell you my fat cat (looks like garfields brother) don't pay them any mind. 

Regards,

[Graybeard]

I don't have dogs or cats (well other than those the neighbors fail to keep under control as state law requires that is) but can tell you that animals in general can detect things we humans have lost the ability to. They can some how sense (feel, hear, smell or whatever) things far more acutely than us and from much farther away.

Around here often I hear dogs howling like crazy a full minute before I hear sirens blasting as emergency vehicles go up the highway to the next wreck that occurs. We have one or more wrecks daily out here and so this is a common occurence. Often Faye hears them as much as ten to fifteen seconds ahead of me as well.

[powderman]

News reported that before that devastating sunami hit a few years ago that just prior to it all kinds of animals started running inland as fast as they could. Yes, they know. POWDERMAN. 

[Clodhopper]

I live in the California desert and have dogs and horses and have actually seen both of the animals start acting agitated just before a quake hits.  I agree also that in the case of the quake being far away that we don't notice it, they do.

[Redtail1949]

ant animial has some sense of knowing bad things are going to take place. they say we have it but lost the knowledge of recognizing it. i have seen animilas react to things and start moving then whren i got home and looked it up we had a quake in the area but i never knew it.

[GatCat]

I walk to work about 1/2 mile along Seattle's waterfront, which is all filled-in tideflats. The sidewalk is lined with alot of ivy, which makes for a good rat population. Numerous times I have noticed and increased sighting of rats up to 12 hours before an earthquake. Not iron-clad, but more often then not, or to put it another way, often enough to be more then a coincidence, I think.
Mark

[blind ear]

20 something years ago when I farmed I would often wake up in the night from thunder shakeing the ground. It might be an hour before my wife or I would actually hear the thunder.

This fall I woke up to the soumd of chainsaws running. A wind storm had come through and blown trees down across my road and one top was resting on my house. All the neighbors talked about how bad it was.

Don't know what it means unless it is just much less critical to me now. eddie

[Yankee1]

My dogs have always reacted to earthquakes. I even had a bird that would get extremely nervous before a quake. We used to use dogs while looking for bombs in suitcases and we would place several hundred suitcases in a line and the dog would run down the line and if he detected anything he would stop by that suitcase. They were never wrong. From a run they could tell if any of the cases contained a bomb.
I would trust the dogs ability with my life and I have.