Did Pakistan's Massive Earthquake Just Create a New Island? By Keith Wagstaff | news.yahoo.com | September 24, 2013 Excerpts: On Tuesday, after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake rocked western Pakistan, a "crowd of bewildered people" gathered to stare at an island rising 60 feet out of the Arabian Sea, according to Reuters. Witnesses claim that the mountainous island, located 600 yards off the country's Gwadar coastline, is brand-new. The earthquake could reportedly be felt in Karachi, hundreds of miles away from its epicenter in Baluchistan, which borders Iran and Afghanistan. So far, 45 people have died as a result of the temblor, with more feared trapped in the rubble. As rescue workers continue to stream into the area, scientists are trying to figure out what caused the new land mass to appear. It's not rare for a big earthquake to create an island - just not the kind of earthquake that hit Pakistan today. Islands normally form after thrust earthquakes, like the 9.1-magnitude monster that caused the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. The Indian Ocean earthquake pushed several low-lying areas above the surface of the ocean near the Andaman Islands, although none of them were big enough to warrant a name. However, the earthquake that hit Baluchistan today "is very different," Bellini said. The fault there is slightly tilted, as opposed to vertical. Called an oblique strike-slip fault, it is similar to the San Andreas fault that runs up California. "Imagine you had two blocks of wood and you slid them past each other," said Bellini. As for how it could have created a new island, he said, "I don't know how it would have done that." Still, the existence of the island was confirmed by Zahid Rafi, principal seismologist for Pakistan's National Seismic Monitoring Center, according to CNN. Officials there are still investigating how the island might have formed and whether it was related to the earthquake. New islands, overall, aren't a rare phenomenon. Erosion, glacial retreat, and volcanoes create them all the time. One of the latest to make headlines was a 2,000-foot-wide island that popped up off the coast of Yemen in late December 2011 after a volcano erupted under the Red Sea. read: http://news.yahoo.com/did-pakistans-massive-earthquake-just-create-island-155400166.html ....... IMO: Hello Does this mean that California can have an earthquake that will make new islands in the center of Los Angeles, or what -- And would it destroy the beautiful California coastline in the making of new lands? Would Governor Jerry Brown immediately place a tax on the land per foot as fracking companies race in to start mining for gas and oil, or will he instead declare it a National Park and charge Americans real money to see their own country.... There are many unanswered questions, as yet unasked, that could determine the future for a hypothetical brand-new-island in California. Questions can go unheeded in Governor Browns quest for making California a nation unto itself, apart from America, with a signature new island standing in the center of L.A. until another earthquake sends portions of the state of California slipping into the Pacific Ocean. But that is the result of building a movie industry and a thriving wine industry atop the San Andreas fault...
So the best and brightest can't figure out how this island was formed, yet we are to believe the best in brightest can tell us all about man made global warming... Granted they are separate, but the formation of an island seems quite a bit easier than taking in full account of the various factors that dictate global warming... Just a thought...
I'm sure people have a pretty good idea or will in the coming months/weeks if it hasnt already been explained. We also cannot instantly attribute events to god, unlike you science has a process. Now about your strawman...
Wow.......... You know last year the Red Sea opened up and became 26 feet wider. I think this story is altogether possible.
Strange - To be able to identify the mechanism that created the island will need geologists on the ground taking measurements. I can see how that would be a priority while rescue operations continue, and the locals bury their dead and figure how they are going to get food and shelter.
Here: [video=youtube;Uzgi4NPlJy8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzgi4NPlJy8&feature=player_detailpage[/video]
I got to tell you Pakistan TV is a strange bird, they show images of the island then stick some notice up that kept covering the island lol
Photos of new island.. which may sink back into the sea. http://photos.denverpost.com/2013/09/27/photos-new-island-pakistan-earthquake/
Afghanistan, Pakistan deal with quake aftermath... More than 300 dead in Afghan earthquake, and relief may be days away October 27, 2015 - Rescuers were struggling to reach quake-stricken regions in Pakistan and Afghanistan on Tuesday as officials said the combined death toll rose to 339. See also: Rescuers scramble to reach quake-hit Pakistan, Afghan areas Oct 27,`15 -- As the death toll in the massive earthquake that struck the remote Hindu Kush mountains soared above 300, officials on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border warned on Tuesday that casualty figures will likely leap once relief workers return from villages so remote they can only be accessed on foot or by donkey.
