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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

SPERM WHALES BEACH IN THE NORTH SEA

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29 Sperm Whales Washed Ashore by Strong Wind-Driven Currents Introduction Whale scientists said, "The animals inadvertently consume plastic and plastic waste, which causes them to suffer and starve with full stomachs." ( link ) They blame the stranding on the garbage floating on the oceans. Think about it! How can a pod of majestic sperm whales using the most advanced biosonar system in the world to locate the squid they eat in the total darkness 5,000 meters below the surface might "inadvertently" identify plastic and ropes and other garbage as food? The truth is that these sperm whales had been suffering biosonar failure ever since they were injured by rapid and excessive pressure changes above the epicenter of an undersea earthquake (aka. seaquake). The injury is barotraumatic in nature and mainly affects the enclosed cranial air spaces. Seaquakes are sudden disturbances in hydrostatic pressure caused by an underwater volcanic explosion o