After deadly Pakistan quake, A new island emerged

An earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale that shook Pakistan, on Tuesday (09/24/2013), led to the lifting of the earth plate, thus creating a new island. As quoted by CNN, the island appears to be 20 to 40 feet (6 to 12 meters) high and 100 feet (30 m) wide. According to DIG Gwadar Moazzam Jah, a district police officer, told Pakistan's Geo News. It rose out of the sea at a spot located about 350 feet (100 m) from the coast, he said. The island was standing about 100 miles off the coast of Gwadar.

Sept. 25, 2013: An island that rose from the sea following an earthquake is pictured off Pakistan's Gwadar coastline in the Arabian Sea. (Picture from: http://www.foxnews.com/)

Many scientific opinion expressed by experts associated with the emergence of a new island. Scientists are still far from consensus, but many think that Pakistan's newest piece of land may be a mud volcano. Zahid Rafi, an earthquake expert at the Pakistan National Earthquake Monitoring Center, said the view of the magnitude of the tremor it is unsurprising that form a new island. But John Bellini, a geophysicist The U.S. Geological Survey said that the quake may generally not be able to create a new island. He said there are several factors that trigger it include the tide.

Sept. 25, 2013: People walk on an island that rose from the sea following an earthquake, off Pakistan's Gwadar coastline in the Arabian Sea. (Picture from: http://www.foxnews.com/)

Geologist Bob Yeats, an expert on Pakistan's earthquake hazards, said he's waiting until he hears from his colleagues in Pakistan (it's currently night there) before judging the case. The two most likely possibilities are a landslide or a mud volcano, Yeats told LiveScience's OurAmazingPlanet.

Yeats said Gwadar is several hundred kilometers southwest of the earthquake's epicenter, making it highly unlikely that the new island is a fault scarp. "[The island] is a long way from where they reported the earthquake. We're looking at two different things," said Yeats, an emeritus professor at Oregon State University. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | LIVESCIENCE | FOXNEWS | DISCOVERY NEWS]
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