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Thread: 9/24/2013 -- 7.8M earthquake causes NEW ISLAND to rise off Pakistan !

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    No earth changes here folks ... move along ... keep on shopping


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    Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QXIk89TRFk


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    Video from Hangol in Balochistan where the discovery of a new island, a 3km by 3km piece of land that has surfaced near the coast, has left fishermen terrified. More here: http://tribune.com.pk/story/82150/new...

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    Fishermen are terrified??? This is awesome!

    I'm thinking...pack your bags TOT members...party on the new island!!!!

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    The interesting thing here is that the earthquake was very shalow, the first one was vitually on the surface and the following waves were 15 km deep. This is not much which makes me wonder what could this be?
    http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/

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    Latest pics from nasa

    NASA has released before and after photos of a new terrestrial body that was born on September 24 during a quake that struck Pakistan.

    Called Zalzala Jazeera, or a an earthquake island, the terrestrial formation can now be found 380 kilometers from the earthquake’s epicenter in Paddi Zirr Bay near Swadar, Pakistan in the Arabian Sea.








    According to scientists, the depth of the water level around Zalzala Jazeera stands at about 15 to 20 meters, stretching 75 to 90 meters across. It lies approximately one mile from the shore. Scientists say the island is nothing more than just a pile of mud, sand and solid rock that was caused by the forces of highly pressurized gas.

    “The island is really just a big pile of mud from the seafloor that got pushed up. This area of the world seems to see so many of these features because the geology is correct for their formation. You need a shallow, buried layer of pressurized gas—methane, carbon dioxide, or something else—and fluids. When that layer becomes disturbed by seismic waves (like an earthquake), the gases and fluids become buoyant and rush to the surface, bringing the rock and mud with them,” Bill Barnhart, a geologist at the US Geological Survey told NASA’s Earth Observatory.

    The Earth Observatory says this is not the first island to have surfaced along the 700-kilometer-long coast over the past century. Scientists predict that the new island will remain above surface for up to a year before sinking back into the Arabian sea.

    The island rose out of the water during a 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck Balochistan, just 69 km north-northeast of Awaran - the nearest Pakistani city - on 24 September 2013. Over 300,000 people were affected by the quake, which caused over 500 deaths, and some 21,000 houses were destroyed.

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    New Photo of Pakistan's Earthquake Island Released


    An aerial photo from Pakistan's National Institute of Oceanography suggests the new island is 60 to 70 feet (15 to 20 meters) tall.

    The Earth performed the ultimate magic trick last week, making an island appear out of nowhere. The new island is a remarkable side effect of the deadly Sept. 24 earthquake in Pakistan that killed more than 500 people.

    A series of satellite images snapped a few days after the earthquake-triggered island emerged offshore of the town of Gwadar reveals the strange structure is round and relatively flat, with cracks and fissures like a child's dried-up mud pie.

    The French Pleiades satellite mapped the muddy hill's dimensions, which measure 576.4 feet (175.7 meters) long by 524.9 feet (160 m) wide. Aerial photos from Pakistan's National Institute of Oceanography suggest the gray-colored mound is about 60 to 70 feet (15 to 20 m) tall.

    Source: http://www.livescience.com/40087-new...-released.html


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    Sorry about the double post Spiral
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