Mass suicides of whales and dolphins are believed to be related to disturbances in electromagnetic fields, science boffins claim.

Last week the bodies of 400 pilot whales washed up on New Zealand's South Island – sparking fears an earthquake is imminent.

More than 170 whales hauled themselves onto the shores of Australia and New Zealand in the weeks leading up to the earthquake in the Indian Ocean.

The rumbles triggered the deadly Boxing Day tsunami which wiped out more than 230,000 people.

Dr Arunachalam Kumar, of Kanachur Medical College in India, posted a warning in early December 2004 just weeks before the tsunami struck.

He explained: "It is my observation, confirmed over the years, that mass suicides of whales and dolphins that occur sporadically all over the world, are in someway related to change and disturbances in the electromagnetic field coordinates and possible realignments of geotectonic plates thereof.

“Tracking the dates and plotting the locales of tremors and earthquakes, I am reasonably certain, that major earthquakes usually follow within a week or two of mass beaching of cetaceans.

“I have noted with alarm, the last week report of such mass deaths of marine mammals in an Australian beachside.

“I will not be surprised if within a few days a massive hit hits some part of the globe. The interrelationship between the unusual 'death-wish' of pods of whales and its inevitable aftermath, the earthquake, may need a further impassioned and unbiased looking into.”

TV New Zealand drew attention to the connection between beached whales and earthquakes.

It said: "Has anyone noticed the correlation between beached whales and earthquakes?”

People have taken to Twitter to share their fears the big one is coming.

One said: “Over a hundred pilot whales beached themselves in New Zealand and then the earthquake. Wonder if tectonic plate shifts confuse whales. Hmmm.”

But University of Auckland marine biologist Dr Rochelle Constantine dismissed the fears.

She told The New Zealand Herald: “There's no strong evidence that strandings are linked to earthquake events.

“For marine mammals these events are mostly inconsequential to them.

"There's a lot of complexity involved in it. It's not an uncommon event."

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