The Japanese see Oarfish as messengers from the sea God's palace, California has been warned
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"Two large oarfish, slender snakelike sea creatures, have washed ashore in California in the last two weeks. While their appearance may conjure thoughts of mythical sea serpents, another legend suggests their death could actually spell disaster.
According to Japanese lore and fishermen, the animals have close ties to earthquakes.
If Japanese stories are to be believed, the aquatic giants, which usually live more than 3,000 feet below the surface and away from human eyes, come up to the surface and beach themselves as a prequake warning bell.
Case in point: According to several reports, in the months after an 8.8 magnitude quake in Chile in 2010 and a year before the giant March 2011 tremor that rocked Japan, several oarfish, called ?Messenger from the Sea God's Palace? in Japanese, were either beached or caught near the quake?s epicenter off the coast of Honshu."
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"Two large oarfish, slender snakelike sea creatures, have washed ashore in California in the last two weeks. While their appearance may conjure thoughts of mythical sea serpents, another legend suggests their death could actually spell disaster.
According to Japanese lore and fishermen, the animals have close ties to earthquakes.
If Japanese stories are to be believed, the aquatic giants, which usually live more than 3,000 feet below the surface and away from human eyes, come up to the surface and beach themselves as a prequake warning bell.
Case in point: According to several reports, in the months after an 8.8 magnitude quake in Chile in 2010 and a year before the giant March 2011 tremor that rocked Japan, several oarfish, called ?Messenger from the Sea God's Palace? in Japanese, were either beached or caught near the quake?s epicenter off the coast of Honshu."
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