ELECTRIC SHOCKS RESULTING IN SEISMIC ANIMAL ANOMALOUS BEHAVIORS (SAABS)

Electric field effects on fish and worms have been studied assuming th at the seismic animal anomalous behaviors (SAABs) witnessed prior to t he Hansin Earthquake were caused by seismic electric current. Japanese minnows, guppies and leaches responded to the current and aligned per pendicular to the field direction and earthworms swarmed, which are fo rms of SAABs, at a current density of J = 0.1 similar to 1 A/m(2) pres umably to reduce the effects of the field, F. A mathematical model of a fault was used to express the seismic stress, sigma(t) corresponding to a fault displacement, D(t). An electromagnetic model of a fault, w here a bound charge density, q which compensate the piezoelectric pola rization, appears due to the release of seismic stress is used to deri ve dq/dt = -alpha(d sigma/dt) - q/epsilon rho, F = q/epsilon and J = F /rho'. Using the piezoelectric coefficient, alpha, dielectric constant , epsilon and the resistivity, rho of bedrock granite and rho' of wate r gives J = 1 A/m(2) in concordance with the experiments.