What Caused the Largest Known Mass Stranding of Stejneger's Beaked Whales?

A new scientific paper suggests that seismic activity may have been involved in a mass stranding death of whales along the Aleutian Islands.   When whales strand along the shores of Alaska’s remote and far-flung Aleutian Islands, they may never be discovered by humans. The chain of small, sparsely populated islands arc from the tip of the Alaska Peninsula west 1,100 miles to Attu Island. 

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