Pakistan’s earthquake was so violent it created this new island in the Indian Ocean. When a devastating earthquake struck the remote Awaran district in Pakistan's Baluchistan province on Tuesday, it killed hundreds of people and left thousands homeless, as the government struggles to rescue those who need help. But the earthquake also drew the attention of thousands of locals, and now many around the world, for causing a new island to rise in nearby waters of the Indian Ocean, just off the Pakistan's Gwadar coastline.
The local government office in Gwadar released these images that show people walking on the newly formed island. According to Pakistan's navy geologist Mohammed Danish, the mass was about 60 feet (18 meters) high, 100 feet (30 meters) wide and 250 feet (76 meters) long, making it a little wider than a tennis court and slightly shorter than a football field. During an earthquake, it is normal for seismic activity to make parts of the sea floor shift vertically, with some masses of earth rising and others lowering. Tsunami forecasting: The next wave. A simulation of the 2011 Tohoku tsunami used data from buoys and sea-floor sensors (triangles) to estimate wave heights. Deeper colours indicate higher waves.
As soon as the shaking died down on 11 March last year, Ken-Ichi Sato stumbled back to his office and pressed the alarm button, triggering sirens throughout the city of Kesennuma in northeastern Japan. As the emergency manager of the coastal community, Sato had to alert the 64,000 people there that a tsunami might be coming. A minute later, that threat became more real when Sato received word from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) that the quake was large — magnitude 7.9 — and located off the coast of Miyagi Prefecture, where Kesennuma is located, in the Tohoku region. But when the tsunami hit around half an hour later, it dwarfed the original JMA estimates. Sato thinks that the toll might have been lower had he learned the true size of the tsunami earlier. Tried and true Kesennuma was hit hard by the tsunami. Ups and downs. Scientists Find First Evidence That Weather Affects Movement of Tectonic Plates | 80beats.
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