2024, August 25. South Africa. Small Airburst / Meteor Impact. Time: 08:51. The detonation occurred 60 km inland from the coast. Travelling east over coast. Coordinates: (-33.6, 24.5). Altitude: 38.2 km. Velocity: 20.1 km/s. -e = 2.6e10, e = 0.092 or 92,000 kg/TNT. Three massive explosions were heard near Mossel Bay, Great Brak and St Francis Bay region. One witness stated that it sounded like a jet passing over, and caused the sliding doors in their house to rattle. The main explosion was heard and felt at places over 273 km apart at Humansdorp, Patensie and Addo, and as far afield as Sedgefield and George. Meteorites were located in Nqweba from a stony chondritic meteroid estimated to be around 7 feet long. Meteorites recovered at Kirkwood, 100 km from St Francis Bay. The furthest report the scientists received of someone observing the incident was from Ceres, over 600km away from where fragments were spotted. The fireball that streaked across the heavens was heard from Gqeberha to the Karoo 315 km apart. There were reports of small fragments hitting the water offshore. See September 14 humpback death.
2024, August 27. UK, Cumbria, Braystones, near Whitehaven, Irish Sea. A dead juvenile minke or fin whale. Measuring approximately 3.5m (11.5ft) in length.
2024, August 27. USA, Florida, St. Augustine Beach. Dead dolphin. South of the A Street beach access. Its carcass was found heavily shark-scavenged.
2024, August 28. USA, North Carolina, Corolla. A very emaciated pygmy sperm whale that washed up on an Outer Banks beach had to be euthanized.
2024, August 30. Bangladesh, Sonarpara beach of Cox's Bazar sea coast. A dead spinner dolphin. The length of spinner dolphin is 8 feet and weight is 95 kg. It is assumed that the dolphin might have died within 24 hours.
2024, August 30. Alaska, Prince of Wales Island. Subadult female Humpback was found in waters near Craig.
2024, August 30. Italy, north east, Porto San Rocco in Muggia, located in Trieste. Crews removed the carcass of a Fin whale measuring 13 meters (42 feet), which was discovered underneath a pier. Appeared to have been dead for no more than 7 days. See 2024, August 12.
2024, September 2. Scotland, Lunan Bay, Angus beach. A large male minke whale washed up deceased and decomposed. The whale may have become entangled.
2024, September 2. Thailand, Phuket’s Bang Tao Beach. A pregnant 2.24-metre-long female Dwarf Sperm whale with a 50-centimetre-long male calf, tragically choked by a stomach full of rubbish, was found dead.
2024, September 2. Alaska, Prince of Wales Island. Humpback, young male whale was found in waters near Craig.
2024, September 3. Philippines, Mariveles, Bataan. A dead dolphin was found floating near a beach resort in front of the Freeport Area of Bataan. The cetacean measured four to five feet in length. There are verifying reports of another dead dolphin sighting off Barangay Cabcaben in Mariveles.
2024, September 3. Egypt, near Cairo. Large Bolide. Caught on camera from the International Space Station. Time: at 5:42 am (IST)
2024, September 5. Philippines, North Luzon, N.E in the Philippine Sea. Airburst. Coordinates: (18, 123). It was 86 km east from the coast. Energy: -e = 6.2, e = 0.2 or 200,000 kg/TNT. Altitude: 25km. Velocity: 19.7 km/s. Time: 00:39PST. UT around 16:39 on the 4th. Asteroid 2024 RW1 was discovered 8 hours before entering the Earth's atmosphere. Asteroid Designation: CAQTDL2. Diameter: 1.5 m or 4.9 ft. Mass: 6 metric tons. It created a fireball seen over Cagayan Valley, Calabarzon and Cordillera Administrative Region. Delayed and concurrent sound heard.
2024, September. Ukraine. A baby white-sided dolphin has been washed up on the coast of the Tuzly Estuaries National Nature Park in Odesa Oblast. A dead bottlenose dolphin was also found near the national park in the village of Hrybivka. Dolphins had also washed up on the Black Sea coast in Bulgaria and on the Sea of Azov coast earlier. About 50,000 dolphins perished in the Black Sea over the first eight months of the full-scale war.
2024, September 6. Timor Sea/Indian Ocean. S.W of the Indonesian Island of Sumba. Airburst. Time:12:36. Coordinates: (-12.9, 118). e = 2.1, -e = 0.076 or 76,000 kg/TNT. Altitude: 27km. Velocity: 22.6 km/s.
2024, September 6. Indonesia, Liliweri, Alor Regency, East Nusa Tenggara. A total of 17 pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) were found dead stranded on the coast. The condition of these whales was poor with wounds from being hit by rocks on the coast, each about 10 to 15 meters apart. East Nusa Tenggara Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Service, police, village government and local communities are organizing the burial. (See also February 5 and May 24 Airbursts).
2024, September 10. USA, California, Carmel River State Beach. A stranded killer whale rescued died while in transport to Santa Cruz’s Long Marine Laboratory.
2024, September 10. USA, California, Ventura County, Port Hueneme. A dead minke whale washed up along the coast. Was found near a jetty close to the lighthouse.
2024, September 11. North Sea. Fireball. Drenthe, Friesland, Gelderland, Groningen and Schleswig-Holstein. Time:around 19:10. UT. 21:10CEST. Travelling N.N.W.
2024, September 14. South Africa, St Helena Bay, located at Sandy Point Beach Estate on the West Coast, Cape Town. Dead Humpback floating offshore. 20 days after August 25th airburst.
2024, September 14. USA, Long Island, Cupsogue Beach in Westhampton Beach. A dead whale landed at on Saturday morning. The whale carcass, a 62-foot finback whale, is not intact due to “significant predation and decomposition”.
2024, September 14. India, Visakhapatnam. A dead Spinner dolphin (Stenella Longirostris) washed ashore at RK Beach. ‘dead strandings’. Responding unit East Coast Conservation Team (ECCT), Andhra Pradesh Forest Department.
2024, September 17. Malayia, Kuala Sungai Padang area. The carcass of a Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris), weighing about 130kg. The dolphin has been dead for three days. The carcass did not find any injury on the body and the cause of its death is still under investigation.
2024, September 16. USA, Cape Cod, Linnell Landing. 14 bottlenose dolphins stranded with three confirmed dead. In just the last two weeks, rescue agencies have responded to 26 dolphin strandings, both common and bottlenose, so we have been on high alert and monitoring their movements closely.
2024, September 22. USA, Oregon, Hug Point State Park in Clatsop County. A giant sunfish, (mola mola). Washed up on an beach for the third time this summer. Three sunfish have washed up on beaches in the county since June. A mola tecta, or hoodwinker sunfish, washed up in June, followed by another mola mola in August.
2024, September 22. Thailand, Kata Noi Beach in Phuket. A rare Risso’s dolphin carcass, tragically entangled in a pile of rubbish. The Rare and Endangered Marine Animals Group, part of the Upper Andaman Marine and Coastal Resources Research Center (MCRC) is investigating.
2024, September 22. UK, Hartlepool. The whale was spotted at the Headland. Experts believe it to be a Minke.
2024, September 22. USA, Texas, near Kahala Beach on Galveston Island. A dead pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps) was found stranded.
2024, September 25. UK, Headland Beach, Hartlepool. Believed to be a minke or fin whale and is unable to be moved.
2024, September 26. Indonesia, Teritip Beach, about 35 kilometers north of Balikpapan, East Kalimantan. Cachalot. The mammal had reportedly been stranded for 4 days before dying.
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