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Pakistan gets THREE new islands following earthquake
Pakistan
Pakistan gets three new islands following earthquake
IANS Sep 26, 2013, 10.32PM IST
NEW DELHI: Pakistan has just got three brand new islands — thanks to a major earthquake. When the shock of the temblor subsided on Tuesday, people living in the coastal town of Gwadar were stunned to see a new island in the sea.
That’s not all. Two other islands have come up along the Balochistan coast.
The island near Gwadar is about 600 feet in diameter and has a height of about 30 feet,” Muhammad Moazzam Khan, technical advisor at WWF — Pakistan, told IANS over telephone.
He said “gas was coming out” of the island, which primarily consists of “stones and soft mud”.
The two islands near Ormara town are small.
Khan said the islands had a diameter of about “30-40 feet and a height of about 2-3 feet”. “Gas is also coming out,” he said.
He said that while some islands which form suddenly “stay on”, others gradually fade away. He explained that the islands were formed following the massive earthquake that rocked Balochistan province Tuesday.
The death toll in the 7.7-magnitude earthquake has reached 348, and a total of 20,000 houses were destroyed. This is not the first time islands have formed off the Pakistan coast.
“In 1945, two big islands had formed near the coast. One was two kilometers long while the other was half kilometre long,” said Khan.
Strong After Shock in Pakistan = New Island
EMSC earthquake notification
For updates, please consult: http://www.emsc-csem.org
A magnitude 7.2 earthquake
has occurred PAKISTAN at:
27.08N 65.58E Depth 30km 24/09/2013 at 11:29:50
(Universal Time)
Pictures from eyewitness: http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/Gallery/
- Earthquake so powerful it creates island: A 7.7-magnitude earthquake in southern
- Pakistan was so powerful it created a new island.
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