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...