Seaquake Causes 2 Pods to Beach at King Island
ALMOST 100 whales and dolphins died in two mass strandings near King Island. On Friday morning locals found 13 dolphins beached at Quarantine Bay on the island's north-west coast, while on nearby New Year Island a stranding of about 67 pilot whales and 20 dolphins went undiscovered until yesterday. http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2012/11/04/365299_most-popular-stories.html On 18 October, 15 days prior to the beaching, a magnitude 5.9 earthquake occurred in the seabed 1298km south of Hobart Tasmania at 54.32 S ; 143.99 E. The quake was very shallow at 10km below the ocean's surface. www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=289074 The epicenter of the quake was situated at the bottom and to the left of the center of the above chart. The seabed danced about when the quake hit. This dancing acted like a powerful piston pushing and pulling against the water column, generating waves of intense pressure changes that swept over the the pod of p