Can oarfish predict earthquakes?

[Ears and Eggs]

Can oarfish predict earthquakes? Maybe it's not as crazy as it sounds - NBC News.com

Just read this this morning, very interesting, or possibly scary if you live in one of the mentioned areas.

 

[andrewb]

Wow, great read. Thanks for posting.

 

[pschlosser]

Those are some big sardines.

Do they make Ritz crackers that big?

 

[Cyparagon]

In research published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health in 2011, Grant and a research team found that tectonic stresses in the Earth's crust send "massive amounts of primarily positive air ions into the lower atmosphere."

Bullshit. If this was true, we would already be able to predict earthquakes ourselves since we have lots of various devices that detect charge.

 

[ped]

And earthquake zones would smell like an old CRT TV with a leaky anode cap :crackup:

 

[Ears and Eggs]

It would make more sense for the Japan and Chile quakes since they occurred on subduction faults which are located in deep ocean trenches.

Not sure how that would work for California since the San Andreas and Puente Hills faults are on land...

...Maybe those fish just hit an old mine lol?