 Just the existence and washing up of these critters alive would have been newsworthy even if the quake hadn't followed. So the strongest quake since 1906 in the Bay Area is accompanied by this extremely rare marine mammal beaching. The worst case of marine mammal beaching in the history of California was in late January of 1971. And do you know what happened on February 9th of 1971 on the day of the eclipse of the moon?