[Source: University of Arizona Communications] – To most people in the southwestern U.S., the April 4 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake felt like a rocking of the ground. But on a group of inch-long fish that exist nowhere else on Earth outside of “Devils Hole,” a crack in the ground in Nevada’s Mojave Desert, it unleashed a veritable tsunami.
University of Arizona researchers were able to catch the event on cameras installed above and below the water’s surface to monitor the fish’s spawning behavior. It is the first time in decades of research at Devils Hole that an earthquake was captured on video.
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