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Seaquake Causes Pilot Whale Beaching in Western Australia South of Perth

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2015-Mar-23:  At 22 minutes after midnight of March 6th, a magnitude 6 shallow focused earthquake occurred along the mid ocean ridge about 2,000 miles from the stranding site in Bunbury Harbour south of Perth Australia. The is the same spot where on 27 June 1865, the Coya, a 516-ton iron barque from London, experienced two very severe earthquake shocks accompanied by loud rumbling noises and a highly disturbed ocean surface ( link ). No doubt the epicenters of all 3 quakes were close and their intensity similar. The question for my readers is do you believe an earthquake that generates severe shocks in the water, and highly disturbed surface, is capable of causing sinus injury in an entire pod of whales? The injured pod would make it back to the surface. However, with their sinuses ruptured, they would not be able to navigate. With their bisn disabled, they would gather in a tight group and be carried downstream by the surface currents. Sharks would soon move in behind them. T...

Seaquake Strands 200 Pilot Whales in New Zealand

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One hundred and forty of the 200 pilot whales stranded themselves on Farewell Spit, Golden Bay, South Island, New Zealand, have died. They were injured by an earthquake south of South Island (see below). About 80 conservation workers and volunteers were trying to refloat the whales as high tide rolled in ,   Department of Conservation area manager Andrew Lamason said  that Farewell Spit is  a big, shallow hook. The whales come in, they get disoriented , and unfortunately we end up with a lot of dead whales.   We've had plenty times in the past where the pods have gone out to sea and turned around and come back again," he added. This disorientation is supposedly cause by the shallow water. The question is if shallow water disoriented them, why didn't they just just stay offshore where they could navigated? Humm? Don't sound right to me . My 40 years of research says pressure changes during the earthquake caused them to be disoriented (see below)...