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Terrified dogs tried to warn family something terrible was about to happen....moments later, it did
Two dogs flew into a mysterious frenzy and trying to warn their owners about an unseen before a magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck their home.
The viral footage showed the family enjoying a Father's Day lunch at their home in Peru when the canines began to bark and rushed to the home's door entrance.
A woman stood from her seat at the table and followed the dogs to the door, perhaps thinking that a visitor was knocking.
One of the dogs continued to the bark as the she stood by the door and then opened it.
A male at the table could be seen urging everyone to remain calm before they all walked towards the exit. Suddenly the home began to shake violently for about four seconds as the earthquake arrived.
The tremor rattled Lima, the capital, and the port city of Callao, Peruvian authorities said.
Its epicenter was located 18.6 miles southwest of Callao, according to the Geophysical Institute of Peru.
The institute's chief, Hernando Taveras, told America Noticias in a May 2023 interview that dogs were capable to detecting earthquakes before their human companions.
'Before the earthquake releases its energy, the rocks [underground] begin to fracture and generate a high-frequency noise that the human ear cannot perceive, but dogs can,' he explained.
'Some dogs get very nervous, are restless, bark to get attention, go up and down íhe stairs,' said local veterinarian Tania Ramirez. 'But other dogs have a more serene personality and, although they feel the vibrations, they do not show any concern.
Additional video footage captured a landslide near a road and a beach while parishioners fled the Lima Cathedral during the middle of a mass.
The tremor killed Jhonatan Ventura, 36, after a set of bricks fell from the exterior wall of a fourth floor that was being added to a residence in the Lima district of Independencia.
The Health Ministry said that earthquake injured 35 people. As of Monday, 25 victims remained hospitalized across several hospitals in Lima.
It also reported damages to 14 medical facilities and 13 schools.
The Geophysical Institute of Peru has detected 398 earthquakes in 2025, including 29 during June.
Sunday's earthquake comes 55 years after the worst tremor in the history of Peru rattled the city of Yungay.
The May 31, 1979, tremor killed at least 70,000 people and injured more than 140,000.
