Reports of abnormal animal behavior in relation to earth-quakes in Colombia
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https://doi.org/10.32685/0120-1425/bol.geol.51.1.2024.716Palabras clave:
sismos históricos, reacciones anómalas, cosísmicas, postsísmicas, presísmicas, tradición oral.
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Las interacciones entre los componentes del sistema Tierra son bien ejemplificadas por el comportamiento de los animales alrededor del tiempo de los sismos; y los abundantes datos publicados y la tradición oral acerca de reacciones animales a la sismicidad han llegado a ser difíciles de ignorar; estos son hechos importantes que ofrecen oportunidades de investigación transdisciplinar. Se ha producido una compilación de reportes sobre comportamiento animal anómalo en relación a sismos en Colombia cubriendo el período 1610-2019 por medio de dos etapas de búsqueda rigurosa de casos utilizando recursos en línea. Las localidades de los reportes siguen la distribución espacial de epicentros y los principales rasgos tectónicos del territorio colombiano. Tanto la primera como la segunda etapa de búsqueda revelaron que, para 41 sismos desctructivos, existen 138 reportes de animales que reaccionaron a la sismicidad, la mayoría de los cuales pertenecen a filo Chordata, clase Mammalia, orden Carnivora, familia Canidae, género Canis, especie C. familiaris. La primera etapa de búsqueda indica que las reacciones cosísmicas de las especies C. familairis, B. taurus, and E. caballus dominan sobre las manifestaciones presísmicas y postsísmicas, en contraste con los resultados de la segunda etapa de búsqueda basada en información de medios noticiosos, la cual indicó dominio del comportamiento presísmico. Se concluye que en esta región los animales han reaccionado persistentemente a los sismos y que el folclore y la tradición oral merecen algo de credibilidad en este fenómeno.
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John Jairo Sánchez, Departamento de Geociencias y Medio Ambiente, Facultad de Minas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín
El profesor John J. Sánchez es Geólogo (Universidad de Caldas), especialista en Informática y Computación (Universidad de Manizales) y acredita títulos de Maestría y Doctorado en Geofísica (Universidad de Alaska Fairbanks, Estados Unidos). Actualmente es Profesor Titular en dedicación exclusiva y enseña asignaturas de pregrado y posgrado en el departamento de Geociencias y Medio Ambiente, de la Facultad de Minas, Sede Medellín.
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