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Scientists and fishermen have occasionally seen strange by-products of the phenomenon.
During a 1933 tsunami in Japan the sea glowed brilliantly at night.
The luminosity of the water is now believed to have been caused by the stimulation of vast numbers of the luminescent organism Noctiluca miliaris by the turbulence of the sea.
Japanese fishermen have sometimes observed that sardines hauled up in their nets during a tsunami have enormously swollen stomachs ; ;
the fish have swallowed vast numbers of bottom-living diatoms, raised to the surface by the disturbance.
The waves of a 1923 tsunami in Sagami Bay brought to the surface and battered to death huge numbers of fishes that normally live at a depth of 3,000 feet.
Gratified fishermen hauled them in by the thousands.
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