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Sea Monsters Predict Earthquakes
b y Monica Davis
A series of small to medium earthquakes may be responsible for sending a rare deep ocean fish to its death on a beach in Baja. The oarfish is a deep-water fish, usually swimming in the deep ocean. Friday, one of these “sea monsters” washed ashore in Mexico.
…In Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, another bizarre find was made Friday: that of anoarfish, which washed ashore on bustling Medano Beach, which features a view of the end of the Baja California peninsula.
Oarfish are deep-water denizens that are rarely seen. But because of their long, slender appearance, and their bright-orange dorsal fins and manes, they helped spawn myths of sea serpents and sea monsters among ancient mariners. readmorehere
In Japan, these oarfish have been considered harbingers of earthquakes. They may be sensitive to the radio waves which often predict earthquakes.
One such giant oarfish was found washed up on the shore of Makinohara city in Shizuoka prefecture, causing a commotion among the locals that another big earthquake may soon strike Japan.
After it was found, the 4.5 meter giant oarfish was hauled into a truck by 6 men and carried off to Izu Mito Sea Paradise, where it was measured, dissected and analyzed. It is said that the fish was washed up because of the tide. READMOREHERE
While Japanese folklore may not be enough for most people to sound the alarms, there are scientific theories that deep sea fish are sensitive to the movements of tectonic plates and may act uncharacteristically before an earthquake.
It may also be noteworthy that dozens of great oarfish were found washed up on the shorts of Japan roughly a year before the March 11 earthquake in Tohoku. The photo above is from one of the oarfish found last year. READMOREHRE
