This comes under the heading of Any Connections? There seems to be an increase in quake activity state wide and a rash of strange animals behavior stories in the news. The sea lions in San Francisco and the Killer Whale in San Diego to name a few.
Each has been explained by territory or environmental change but there is always the other side of the observation. The maybe it is connected to or brought about by ... Just an observation and a statement just in case something is connected here.
Bob in Woodland Hills