40 PILOT WHALES BEACH ON NORTH ANDAMAN ISLAND
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.
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 speed of the injured whales. In other words, many factors much agree, otherwise the quake has to be disqualified.
Following the surface currents, the distance from the epicenter of this quake to the beach is about 1,000 miles. The time of travel should be about 10 days at ~100 miles per day. The quake occurred on 29 September. The whales beached on 21 October--22 days later, more than twice as long as it should taken them to reach Elizabeth Bay. The time and distance traveled does not agree.
The solution is simple. There is upwelling along the shores of the Andaman Sea. Surface currents general flow out to sea during upwelling. This would have kept the pod a few miles offshore. Following the chart of general circulation above, the pod could have easily made a complete loop around once and then returned back to Elizabeth Bay. They could circled around inside the Andaman Sea, or went outside and around the Bay of Bengal and returned to the area of the stranding 22 days after the earthquake.
The time for a complete loop around once and return back to the area of beaching agrees with the time and distance traveled. This also agrees with the average beaching that occurs about 25 days after the pressure disturbance. This 25 day average is though to be because the whales are more fresh and aware of where they are for the first few weeks. The become more lethargic and inclined to beach as their ordeal wears on.
High winds, reported during the time of the beaching, overcame the upwelling. After the 22 days at sea, the whales were tired and stress and were blown into the bay where they beached.
Why Whales Strand: The Logical Truth
Seaquakes kill 322 Baleen Whales in Chile
Three Fin Whales Killed by Seaquake
The Danger of Seaquakes
How Seaquakes Cause Whale Strandings
Scientists Lying About Whale Strandings
Whale Scientists Spreading Propaganda Part II
Scuba Divers Survive Seaquakes
Surface Currents Guide Whales to the Beach
Seaquake-Vessel Encounters from 1900 to 2015
Seaquake-Vessel Encounters from 1800 to 1899
History of Whale Drive Fisheries and Seaquakes
Typical Seaquake Reported by a Ship at Sea
Various Whale Beaching Theories
Whale Stranding Solutions
Variables in Seaquake-Induced Whale Strandings
Narwhals Trapped in Arctic Ice
Seaquake Causes Whale Beaching
1988 article why whales and dolphins strand (PDF)
2013 Science Article - seaquakes cause whale strandings (PDF)
Seismic Airguns Kill Endangered Sea Turtles
Nuclear Submarine USS Scorpion (SSN-589) sunk by seaquake
1966 US Navy verifies seaquakes sinks ships and kill marine life
Ghost Ship Mary Celeste abandoned during seaquake
Site Map for http://deafwhale.blogspot.com
2015
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 speed of the injured whales. In other words, many factors much agree, otherwise the quake has to be disqualified.
Following the surface currents, the distance from the epicenter of this quake to the beach is about 1,000 miles. The time of travel should be about 10 days at ~100 miles per day. The quake occurred on 29 September. The whales beached on 21 October--22 days later, more than twice as long as it should taken them to reach Elizabeth Bay. The time and distance traveled does not agree.
The solution is simple. There is upwelling along the shores of the Andaman Sea. Surface currents general flow out to sea during upwelling. This would have kept the pod a few miles offshore. Following the chart of general circulation above, the pod could have easily made a complete loop around once and then returned back to Elizabeth Bay. They could circled around inside the Andaman Sea, or went outside and around the Bay of Bengal and returned to the area of the stranding 22 days after the earthquake.
The time for a complete loop around once and return back to the area of beaching agrees with the time and distance traveled. This also agrees with the average beaching that occurs about 25 days after the pressure disturbance. This 25 day average is though to be because the whales are more fresh and aware of where they are for the first few weeks. The become more lethargic and inclined to beach as their ordeal wears on.
High winds, reported during the time of the beaching, overcame the upwelling. After the 22 days at sea, the whales were tired and stress and were blown into the bay where they beached.
Why Whales Strand: The Logical Truth
Seaquakes kill 322 Baleen Whales in Chile
Three Fin Whales Killed by Seaquake
The Danger of Seaquakes
How Seaquakes Cause Whale Strandings
Scientists Lying About Whale Strandings
Whale Scientists Spreading Propaganda Part II
Scuba Divers Survive Seaquakes
Surface Currents Guide Whales to the Beach
Seaquake-Vessel Encounters from 1900 to 2015
Seaquake-Vessel Encounters from 1800 to 1899
History of Whale Drive Fisheries and Seaquakes
Typical Seaquake Reported by a Ship at Sea
Various Whale Beaching Theories
Whale Stranding Solutions
Variables in Seaquake-Induced Whale Strandings
Narwhals Trapped in Arctic Ice
Seaquake Causes Whale Beaching
1988 article why whales and dolphins strand (PDF)
2013 Science Article - seaquakes cause whale strandings (PDF)
Seismic Airguns Kill Endangered Sea Turtles
Nuclear Submarine USS Scorpion (SSN-589) sunk by seaquake
1966 US Navy verifies seaquakes sinks ships and kill marine life
Ghost Ship Mary Celeste abandoned during seaquake
Site Map for http://deafwhale.blogspot.com
2015
Dec 09: Whale Dangerous Earthquake South of Perth
Dec 09: Seaquake causes dolphins to strand Baja California
Nov 23: Seaquakes kill 322 baleen whales in Chile (shocking)
Aug 24: NOAA whale scientists dumbfounded
Aug 14: stranded dolphin is determined to be deaf
Aug 08: seaquake causes pilot whales to strand Nova Scotia
Jul 27: is our stranding solution flawed as scientists claim
Jun 01: pilots stranded Isles of Skye from Reykjanes Ridge
May 22: dead whales washing ashore on the California Coast
May 10: earthquake kills 20 Sei Whales near Chile Coast
Apr 10: seaquake strands 150 melon-headed whales in Japan
2014
Dec 25: navigation failure in mass stranded whales (most popular)
Dec 08: seaquake causes 7 sperm whales to beach Australia
Nov 24: seaquake beaches 3 sperm whales at Golden Bay
Nov 04: seaquake beaches 60 pilot whales in Bay of Plenty
Oct 29: nine pilot whales strand on Prince Edward Island
Apr 11: 60 pilot whales beach in Bay of Plenty
Mar 20: Cape Ray Newfoundland 37 dolphins beach
Mar 14: undersea quakes louder than nuclear explosions
Mar 13: seaquakes cause whale strandings 32 million years
Mar 02: blue whale killed by seaquake in Kuwait
Feb 27: seaquake kills young killer whale
Feb 23: predicting mass beachings based on seaquakes
Feb 21: lessons in understanding why whales beach
Feb 18: seaquake Greenland Sea kills 3 sperm whales
Feb 12: nine orcas killed by seaquake
Jan 30: Cape Cod mass stranding predicted
Jan 20: seaquake causes 39 pilot whales to strand Florida
Jan 16: seaquakes beach 65 pilot whales in Golden Bay
Jan 05: seaquake beaches 30 pilot whales in Golden Bay
2013
Dec 06: why did pilot whales beached in the everglades?
Apr 30: seaquake beaches 6 killer whales in Iceland
Apr 25: beached whales stop war games
2012
Dec 08: seaquake beach pilot whales South Carolina
Nov 15: pilot whales beach at Golden Bay, New Zealand
Nov 04: seaquake causes two pods to beach at King Island
Oct 28: pilot whales strand on North Andaman Island
Oct 17: earthquakes cause New Zealand whale stranding
Sep 09: earthquake kills pregnant sperm whale
Sep 03: seaquake strands pilot whales in Scotland
Aug 24: two quakes cause near beaching in Cape Verde
Jul 28: 200 Pilot Whales Northwest of Iceland
Mar 19: Four Sperm Whales Wash Ashore in China
2011
Dec 31: world's rarest whales killed by earthquake
Mar 06: 52 melon-headed dolphins strand in Japan
2008
Nov 20: 52 Pilot Whales Stranded in Tasmania
Dec 09: Seaquake causes dolphins to strand Baja California
Nov 23: Seaquakes kill 322 baleen whales in Chile (shocking)
Aug 24: NOAA whale scientists dumbfounded
Aug 14: stranded dolphin is determined to be deaf
Aug 08: seaquake causes pilot whales to strand Nova Scotia
Jul 27: is our stranding solution flawed as scientists claim
Jun 01: pilots stranded Isles of Skye from Reykjanes Ridge
May 22: dead whales washing ashore on the California Coast
May 10: earthquake kills 20 Sei Whales near Chile Coast
Apr 10: seaquake strands 150 melon-headed whales in Japan
2014
Dec 25: navigation failure in mass stranded whales (most popular)
Dec 08: seaquake causes 7 sperm whales to beach Australia
Nov 24: seaquake beaches 3 sperm whales at Golden Bay
Nov 04: seaquake beaches 60 pilot whales in Bay of Plenty
Oct 29: nine pilot whales strand on Prince Edward Island
Apr 11: 60 pilot whales beach in Bay of Plenty
Mar 20: Cape Ray Newfoundland 37 dolphins beach
Mar 14: undersea quakes louder than nuclear explosions
Mar 13: seaquakes cause whale strandings 32 million years
Mar 02: blue whale killed by seaquake in Kuwait
Feb 27: seaquake kills young killer whale
Feb 23: predicting mass beachings based on seaquakes
Feb 21: lessons in understanding why whales beach
Feb 18: seaquake Greenland Sea kills 3 sperm whales
Feb 12: nine orcas killed by seaquake
Jan 30: Cape Cod mass stranding predicted
Jan 20: seaquake causes 39 pilot whales to strand Florida
Jan 16: seaquakes beach 65 pilot whales in Golden Bay
Jan 05: seaquake beaches 30 pilot whales in Golden Bay
2013
Dec 06: why did pilot whales beached in the everglades?
Apr 30: seaquake beaches 6 killer whales in Iceland
Apr 25: beached whales stop war games
2012
Dec 08: seaquake beach pilot whales South Carolina
Nov 15: pilot whales beach at Golden Bay, New Zealand
Nov 04: seaquake causes two pods to beach at King Island
Oct 28: pilot whales strand on North Andaman Island
Oct 17: earthquakes cause New Zealand whale stranding
Sep 09: earthquake kills pregnant sperm whale
Sep 03: seaquake strands pilot whales in Scotland
Aug 24: two quakes cause near beaching in Cape Verde
Jul 28: 200 Pilot Whales Northwest of Iceland
Mar 19: Four Sperm Whales Wash Ashore in China
2011
Dec 31: world's rarest whales killed by earthquake
Mar 06: 52 melon-headed dolphins strand in Japan
2008
Nov 20: 52 Pilot Whales Stranded in Tasmania
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