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EARTHQUAKE NEAR PUERTO RICO CAUSES FALSE KILLER WHALES TO BEACH IN FLORIDA Florida Middle Keys (16 January 2016): Rescue efforts continue Monday in the largest stranding of false killer whales in recorded Florida history (95), taking place at a remote mangrove beach in mainland Monroe County near Hog Key.  They swam blindly into the shallows near the Highland Beach area, inside western Everglades National Park and eventually all died.  The first reports came in not long before nightfall Saturday (January 14th) The pod was injured by an extremely shallow (4 km) magnitude 4.6 earthquake in the seabed 25km S of Emajagua, Puerto Rico. The event was reported as felt on the Island. A mag. 4.6 is on the low side for causing mass strandings, but the fact that it was only 4 km deep in the seabed made it much more dangerous than it would have been if were 10 km deep. In brief, the quake erupted violently and suddenly without precursory signals. The vertical movement in the seabed ge
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KILLER QUAKE STRIKES AGAIN:   Kills Two Killer Whales in the Same Area  As noted in the news clip above, shock waves from a seaquake off Cape Beal on the west coast of Vancouver Island killed 5 baleen whales in June 1946 ( link ). The big deal back in those days was that the fishermen were towing all 5 whales 500 miles to a rendering station on the East Coast of Queen Charlotte Island. It was their lucky day. What's so different about 2016? Today when whales are killed by seaquakes off Vancouver Island, the authorities deny that these events can even scare them; killing them is out of the question. Isn't that strange? Why would they recognize that seaquakes could kill whales in 1946 but deny it today? The reason is very simple. Shock waves from seaquakes cause barosinusitis (sinus barotrauma that can easily kill marine mammals and fish outright). This is the exact same injury caused by high-powered sonars, oil industry air cannons, and underwater explosives. I

Seaquake Causes 6 Killer Whales to Beach in Iceland

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APRIL 30, 2013:   Six killer whales with seaquake-impaired biosonar were washed ashore in the early morning hours of April 30 just east of the village of Heiðarhöfn on the northern coast of Iceland's Langanes Peninsular. Two were dead by the time rescuers arrived. Two others were supposedly pushed back out to sea. These killer whales were likely from the local fish-eating group that feed primarily on herring and other schooling fish found in abundance off  the coast of Northern Iceland near Grimsey and Flatey Islands, and the Bay at Husivik  Killer whale pods are often spotted in these areas. Undersea earthquakes are also known to occur, especially near Grimsey Island.  This is exactly what happened eight times on 02 April, 27 days before the mass stranding. The seismic activity started with an extremely shallow 5.2 magnitude quake followed by 7 aftershocks: 2013-04-02   00:59:14.0   66.47N; 17.80W    2km deep;  5.2 mag. 2013-04-02   01:13:23.0   66.28N; 17.72W