2012: Amazing video of Devil’s Hole seiche rocked by earthquake in Oaxaca, Mexico
Watch never-captured footage of a seismic wave rocking the whole pool at Nevada’s famed Devils Hole.
A fortunate National Park Service biologist and a Scientific American reporter were standing at a deep natural pool in Death Valley when it began to be dramatically rocked by the underground tsunami, resulted from seismic waves emanating from a 7.4-magnitude earthquake, 12 miles deep, near the Mexican state of Oaxaca, 2,000 miles distant. Violent oscillations decimated the small breeding area of the endangered species of pupfish that live nowhere else on earth but in these hot water.
