{"id":134579,"date":"2024-12-08T03:48:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T20:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134579"},"modified":"2024-12-08T03:48:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T20:48:48","slug":"one-of-worlds-rarest-fish-harmed-by-northern-california-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134579","title":{"rendered":"One of world\u2019s rarest fish harmed by Northern California earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"featured featured-video video-ct\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p class=\"sub-text\">A magnitude 7.0 earthquake shook a large portion of Northern California on Thursday, prompting a rare Tsunami Warning for coastal areas along the West Coast. The quake was the strongest in the region since at least 2005 when a magnitude of 7.2 occurred. Watch as the powerful quake knocked grocery items off shelves and caused widespread damage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">The endangered pupfish in Death Valley National Park had their world rocked Thursday when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/extreme-weather\/northern-california-oregon-coasts-under-tsunami-warning-after-multiple-major-earthquakes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the magnitude 7.0 earthquake<\/a> that struck off the Northern California coast sent tremors through their delicate habitat 500 miles away.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Known as the Devils Hole Pupfish, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/animals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">animals<\/a> live in a deep, water-filled cave that lends the fish their name. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/national-parks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Park Service<\/a> said this cave is the only place in the world where Devils Hole Pupfish live, and there&#8217;s just a total of just over 200.<\/p>\n<div class=\"featured featured-image component-center\">\n<div class=\"m\"><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/288\/162\/20110102-_dsc8358-1541358036-o-devils-hole-pupfish-copy.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/576\/324\/20110102-_dsc8358-1541358036-o-devils-hole-pupfish-copy.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" width=\"576\" height=\"324\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/720\/405\/20110102-_dsc8358-1541358036-o-devils-hole-pupfish-copy.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1440\/810\/20110102-_dsc8358-1541358036-o-devils-hole-pupfish-copy.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" width=\"1440\" height=\"810\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/668\/376\/20110102-_dsc8358-1541358036-o-devils-hole-pupfish-copy.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1336\/752\/20110102-_dsc8358-1541358036-o-devils-hole-pupfish-copy.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" width=\"1336\" height=\"752\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/668\/376\/20110102-_dsc8358-1541358036-o-devils-hole-pupfish-copy.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Devils Hole Pupfish.\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p class=\"title\">Devils Hole Pupfish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sub-text\"><strong> (NPS \/ FOX Weather)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">On Thursday, the water inside Devils Hole started sloshing with waves rising nearly 2 feet high. Officials said this happened a couple of minutes after the major <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/earthquakes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">earthquake<\/a> struck about 40 miles off the northern California coast. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/extreme-weather\/tsunami-warning-san-francisco-earthquake-california-explaination\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WATCH: MAJOR EARTHQUAKE OFF WEST COAST CAUSES SHAKING IN CALIFORNIA, OREGON<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">The waves disrupted the shallow shelf inside the Devils Hole, the pupfish\u2019s spawning area, knocking most of the organic matter from the shelf into the 500-foot-deep cavern, the NPS said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Officials noted that this can have both negative and positive impacts on the pupfish.<\/p>\n<div class=\"featured featured-image component-center\">\n<div class=\"m\"><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/288\/162\/screenshot-2024-12-07-at-12.05.33-pm.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/576\/324\/screenshot-2024-12-07-at-12.05.33-pm.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" width=\"576\" height=\"324\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/720\/405\/screenshot-2024-12-07-at-12.05.33-pm.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1440\/810\/screenshot-2024-12-07-at-12.05.33-pm.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" width=\"1440\" height=\"810\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/668\/376\/screenshot-2024-12-07-at-12.05.33-pm.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1336\/752\/screenshot-2024-12-07-at-12.05.33-pm.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" width=\"1336\" height=\"752\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/668\/376\/screenshot-2024-12-07-at-12.05.33-pm.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Underwater photos of Devils Hole before and after the seiche on Thursday.\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p class=\"title\">Underwater photos of Devils Hole before (left) and after (right) the seiche on Thursday. Note the amount of organic matter in the &#8220;before&#8221; image compared to that in the &#8220;after&#8221; image.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sub-text\"><strong> (NPS \/ FOX Weather)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">&#8220;In the short term, this is bad for the pupfish,&#8221; said NPS biologist Dr. Kevin Wilson. &#8220;A lot of pupfish food just sank deeper into the cave, most likely too deep for the fish to get to it. There were likely pupfish eggs on the shelf that were destroyed. But, in the long term, this type of reset is good for the pupfish. It cleaned off any decaying organic matter that could otherwise cause pockets of low oxygen.&#8221; \u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">These waves, known as &#8220;seiches&#8221;, are nothing new for the Devils Hole Pupfish.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">In fact, recent seiches caused by a magnitude 7.9 earthquake in the Gulf of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/alaska\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alaska<\/a> in 2018, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California<\/a> in 2019 and a magnitude 7.6 earthquake in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/mexico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mexico<\/a> in 2022 resulted in the pupfish increasing their spawning activity, according to the NPS.<\/p>\n<div class=\"featured featured-image component-center\">\n<div class=\"m\"><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/288\/162\/pupfish-ezgif.com-video-to-gif-converter-1.gif?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/576\/324\/pupfish-ezgif.com-video-to-gif-converter-1.gif?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" width=\"576\" height=\"324\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/720\/405\/pupfish-ezgif.com-video-to-gif-converter-1.gif?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1440\/810\/pupfish-ezgif.com-video-to-gif-converter-1.gif?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" width=\"1440\" height=\"810\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/668\/376\/pupfish-ezgif.com-video-to-gif-converter-1.gif?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1336\/752\/pupfish-ezgif.com-video-to-gif-converter-1.gif?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" width=\"1336\" height=\"752\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/images.foxweather.com\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/668\/376\/pupfish-ezgif.com-video-to-gif-converter-1.gif?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Looped video of the Devils Hole Pupfish Cam in Death Valley National Park, showing the water in Devils Hole sloshing after an earthquake that struck in 2019.\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p class=\"title\">Looped video of the Devils Hole Pupfish Cam in Death Valley National Park, showing the water in Devils Hole sloshing after an earthquake that struck in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sub-text\"><strong> (E. Hoerner \/ NPS \/ FOX Weather)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/how-to-watch-fox-weather-on-tv\"><strong><u>HOW TO WATCH FOX WEATHER<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">To ensure the well-being of the Devils Hole Pupfish after this week\u2019s earthquake, biologists with the NPS, U.S. Fish and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/wildlife\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wildlife<\/a> Service and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/nevada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nevada<\/a> Department of Wildlife are planning on mitigating the disruption on the fish by increasing the amount of supplemental food they are given.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/earth-space\/earthquake-endangered-pupfish-death-valley\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A magnitude 7.0 earthquake shook a large portion of Northern California on Thursday, prompting a rare Tsunami Warning for coastal areas along the West Coast. 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