New island ... Mud houses in the mountains of Pakistan crumbled as a 7.7-magnitude earthquake shook western part of the country early on Tuesday. But residents in the coastal city of Gwadar saw something completely different: an new island. Seismologists suspect it is a temporary formation resulting from a "mud volcano," a jet of mud, sand and water that gushed to the surface after the earthquake. This is not the first recorded instance of such an event. In the 1940s, a sizable island rose from the sea in the area, after an earthquake near Karachi, Pakistan. And in 1968 another earthquake produced an island near the coastal city of Gwadar. Source: nbcnews/science/pakistan-earthquake-creates-new-island-mud-volcano-blame-4B11248003
Posted on: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 18:00:28 +0000
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