Reverse Migrationof the Wood Pigeons and electromagnetic emissions, before the Mw 3.7 earthquake occurred in Visso-Macerata, Central Italyon October 18, 2021
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https://doi.org/10.26821/IJSRC.10.1.2022.100106Keywords:
Wood Pigeons, Earthquake Prevision, Reverse Migration, Seismic Precursors, RDFAbstract
On October 18, 2021, an earthquake of magnitude Mw 3.7 occurred at 12:54:17 (UTC) 2 km East from Visso, Macerata, Italy, with geographical coordinates (lat, lon) 42.929, 13.113 and at one depth of 10 km.
This earthquake had been preceded a few days by a series of electromagnetic signals coming from the seismic epicenter and its immediate vicinity.
In the same temporal context, an anomalous behavior of the Wood Pigeons was observed, which were not able to orient themselves autonomously to proceed in the S-SW direction towards the wintering areas mainly Corsica, Sardinia, the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa, after/ during the crossing of the Italian peninsula.
Also in this case the anomalous behavior of these birds occurred a few days before the earthquake. In this study, the group of researchers verified all the data relating to the natural electromagnetic variation to understand if there is a clear relationship between the anomalous behavior of these migratory birds and the electromagnetic pre-seismic phenomenon.
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