animals and earthquakes – Sharon A. Hill

Unfortunate media trend to make oarfish the doomsday fish

By Sharon A. Hill | August 16, 2024

Oarfish have an unfortunate and false association with earthquakes. A recent find of a dead oarfish associated with a small quake in Los Angeles made headlines as a doomsday fish.

Anomalous claims from Turkey-Syria earthquake 2023

By Sharon A. Hill | February 8, 2023

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Many images and videos came out of the affected area in southern and central Turkey and western Syria from the February 6, 2023 series of quakes. Included were MANY inaccuracies, misattributed content, conspiracies, and pseudoscientific claims being shared and promoted by non-experts.