Five days ago:
Today saw a 6.6 magnitude earthquake which Japanese forecasters feared would trigger a tsunami affecting the Okinawa area.
But some believe that there could be something worse on the way – and that we have already received a warning.
On April 9, more than 100 melon-headed whales beachd themselves in Ibaraki prefecture – four years after 50 whales beached themselves in the same area.
The March 11, 2011 beaching occurred just before a devastating tsunami – and some experts believe that the marine mammals can ‘sense’ undersea earthquakes.
Toshiaki Kishiro, head of Cetacean Resources at Japan’s National Research Institute of Far Seas Fisheries, said it was possible that the creatures had been ‘spooked’ by disturbances in the Earth’s electromagnetic field, such as might be felt in the run up to an earthquake.
But he cautioned that it’s not necessarily the case.
More than 2,500 confirmed dead in Nepal earthquake
Saturday’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake spread horror from Kathmandu to small villages and to the slopes of Mount Everest, triggering an avalanche that buried part of the base camp packed with foreign climbers preparing to make their summit attempts. At least 18 people died there and 61 were injured, according to the Nepal Mountaineering Association.
The earthquake centered outside Kathmandu, the capital, was the worst to hit the South Asian nation in over 80 years. It destroyed swaths of the oldest neighborhoods of Kathmandu, and was strong enough to be felt all across parts of India, Bangladesh, China’s region of Tibet and Pakistan.
