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Can dogs help predict when earthquakes occur? The company behind the PetPace biometric collar says the health data it tracks may also have the capability of forecasting earthquakes. A dog's pulse, heart rate variability, temperature, respiration and activity are recorded and sent to the PetPace cloud in real-time, according to Asaf Dagan, chief scientist and cofounder of PetPace, the parent company of Animal Alerts, told ABC News.

An updated report from the U.S. Geological Survey show that areas around the Wasatch Front have a greater than 50% chance to see earthquakes powerful enough to damage buildings over the next century.

Earthquakes may make their presence known through GPS measurements several hours before their main events.

Intense earthquakes are unnerving, frightening, and even deadly. Scientists would need to monitor animals under controlled settings over lengthy periods of time in order to show that odd animal behaviors might forecast earthquakes. Animals might be lifesavers if they could tell us when a quake is likely to happen. But is it possible?

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