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40 PILOT WHALES BEACH ON NORTH ANDAMAN ISLAND

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STRANDING CAUSED BY UNDERSEA EARTHQUAKE SOUTH OF NICOBAR ISLAND October, 2012:  Forty pilot whales beached themselves on the 21st of October. They died in the sand inside Elizabeth Bay on North Andaman Island on the western banks of the Andaman Sea. This is the first time that such a large number of whales beached in the area.   On 29 September, a magnitude 5.3 earthquake occurred South of Nicobar Island at 6.180N;92.764E. The quake was listed at 14km deep +/- 12km and well within the whale-dangerous zone. Since whales injured by rapid and excessive changes in ambient water pressure lose their ability to navigated immediately after the injury, their swim path is always downstream and under direct control of the surface currents. This means there must be clear evidence that the source of the barotraumatic injury is indeed upstream from the beaching site, and that the distance traveled downstream corresponds with the speed of the current and the swim sp...

EARTHQUAKES CAUSE NEW ZEALAND WHALE BEACHING

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(Author's Note:  Read the right column t o better understand this concept . ) AS PREDICTED ONE MONTH AGO, ON 14 OCTOBER 2012, FIFTY-ONE PILOT WHALES WERE WASHED INTO THE SAND AT EAST CAPE, NORTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND! This beaching was caused by a cluster of eight earthquakes: PDE-Q 2012 08 30 084312.83 -50.42 114.90 10 4.2 mbGS PDE-Q 2012 08 30 105358.42 -50.21 114.11 10 5.4 MwGCMT PDE-Q 2012 08 30 105854.15 -50.26 114.25 10 4.6 mbGS PDE-Q 2012 08 30 121843.09 -50.14 114.08 10 5.6 MwGCMT PDE-Q 2012 08 30 152542.01 -50.30 114.11 10 4.5 mbGS PDE-Q 2012 08 30 152717.51 -50.40 114.10   9 4.8 mbGS PDE-Q 2012 08 30 190304.85 -50.35 114.19 10 4.9 mbGS PDE-Q 2012 08 30 190424.31 -50.42 114.40 10 4.9 mbGS PDE-Q 2012 08 31 043745.05 -50.24 114.32 10 4.2 mbGS My alert service informed me only about the two linked events. I knew nothing about the other six until after the beachin g on 14 October 2012. My basic concept is that shallow earthquakes cause the rocky bottom to shi...