Island emerges near Gwadar coast after earthquake

Here is a likely candidate for the island in the pictures on the news.

Astola Island...



It looks about the right size, right location... it was there prior to yesterday.

reply to post by Zarniwoop


That's really nice detective work.

I have my doubts about a new island of any size popping up some 380 kms from the epicenter of today's quake. (Distance figures provided by member and moderator extraordinaire, JustMike, found here)
Unless it was a submerged island-of-debris of some sort, that was jostled loose from the sea floor and floated to the surface.


ETA: I may have to eat my word, lol. I've found some spotty references to islands formed by mud volcanoes, in the Gwadar, Pakistan area in the past.

2010 story
Malan Island wiki

Interesting..

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Yes. During the Indian Tsunami the ground floor raised some 1,300 feet (if I remember correctly). However, it was still below the surface floor. But it did, however, create a pretty large tsunami.

AAC

This Island should now be a memorial for the people who lost their lives today in Pakistan after the earthquake.

Truly bizarre and scary


M7.4 - PAKISTAN

Preliminary Earthquake Report
Magnitude 7.4
Date-Time
24 Sep 2013 11:29:49 UTC
24 Sep 2013 16:29:49 near epicenter
24 Sep 2013 03:29:49 standard time in your timezone
Location 27.026N 65.521E
Depth 22 km
Distances
69 km (42 mi) NNE of Awaran, Pakistan
118 km (73 mi) NW of Bela, Pakistan
172 km (106 mi) S of Kharan, Pakistan
174 km (107 mi) NW of Uthal, Pakistan
793 km (491 mi) ENE of Muscat, Oman
Location Uncertainty Horizontal: 0.0 km; Vertical 4.7 km
Parameters Nph = 194; Dmin = 874.3 km; Rmss = 1.02 seconds; Gp = 23°
Version =
Event ID us b000jyiv
For updates, maps, and technical information, see: Event Page or USGS Earthquake Hazards Program
National Earthquake Information Center
U.S. Geological Survey
earthquake.usgs.gov...


Eta It's showing as 7.8 on some news sources

Zarniwoop
Here is a likely candidate for the island in the pictures on the news.

Reuters is now reporting on it, so there's a somewhat more credible source for you.

Television channels showed images of a stretch of rocky terrain rising above the sea level, with a crowd of bewildered people gathering on the shore to witness the rare phenomenon (Source)

I'm guessing that no one would be milling about "bewildered" if the island had been there yesterday.

reply to post by adjensen

Reuters is now reporting on it, so there's a somewhat more credible source for you.

Reuters is merely repeating what the local TV stations reported. They were reporting on it earlier as well.

I'm guessing that no one would be milling about "bewildered" if the island had been there yesterday.

I agree. But I haven't seen any pictures of people milling about and only a couple blurry pictures of a huge island way off the coast. That seems really strange to me.

My mind is open, it's just leaning one way based on the lack of evidence.

TruthSeekerKnight
reply to post by onehuman

 

Anyone have information on how deep the sea floor was before the island rose?...

Wouldn't this raise the sea level around the planet? And how much?

Wondering that myself. It must have some effect

It's not on CNN as a big story. I'm wondering if I have a Pakistani channel on my tv I could watch. Are there any videos or better pictures? Anything on twitter?

From USGS

Tectonic Summary

The September 24, 2013 M7.7 earthquake in south-central Pakistan occurred as the result of oblique-strike-slip type motion at shallow crustal depths. The location and mechanism of the earthquake are consistent with rupture within the Eurasia plate above the Makran subduction zone. The event occurred within the transition zone between northward subduction of the Arabia plate beneath the Eurasia plate and northward collision of the India plate with the Eurasia plate. The epicenter of the event is 69km north of Awaran, Pakistan, and 270km north of Karachi, Pakistan (population 11.6 million).

On a broad scale, the tectonics of southern and central Pakistan reflect a complex plate boundary where the India plate slides northward relative to the Eurasia plate in the east, and the Arabia plate subducts northward beneath the Eurasia plate in the Makran (western Pakistan). These motions typically result in north-south to northeast-southwest strike-slip motion at the latitude of the September 24 earthquake that is primarily accommodated on the Chaman Fault, with the earthquake potentially occurring on one of the southern-most strands of this fault system. Further, more in-depth studies will be required to identify the precise fault associated with this event. Although seismically active, this portion of the Eurasia plate boundary region has not experience large damaging earthquakes in the recent history. In the past 40 years, only one significant event (M6.1), which killed 6, has occurred within 200km of the September 2013 event, in July of 1990.

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Here's the best picture I've found yet for the island they are saying popped up...



If this is true, it is truly amazing.

reply to post by Zarniwoop


Thanks
I was in another duplicate thread that got closed before this and thought I saw videos.



Here's the updated details

Magnitude: 7.7
Location: Pakistan, 66 km NNE of Awaran

Time: Tue, Sep 24, 2013, 4:29:48 AM PDT
GMT: Tue, Sep 24, 2013 11:29:48 GMT

Latitude: 26° 59' 58" N (26.9997°)
Longitude: 65° 30' 51" E (65.5143°)
Depth: 20.0 km

Map: maps.google.com...@26.999700,65.514300&z=6

More Information (while available): earthquake.usgs.gov...

Data provided by US Geological Survey.


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here a video that look like to be film on the island

reply to post by Zarniwoop

I was skeptical too, but according to this 2006 Nature article it has happened previously along the Pakistani coast:

In 1945, the Makran earthquake in Pakistan triggered the sudden emergence of three offshore mud volcanoes, and in March 1999 a mud volcano rose out of the water overnight to form Malan Island, 3 kilometres from Pakistan's coast. It is hard to estimate the volume of mud created by such underwater eruptions. And, notes Rice: "Because the extrusion of mud and toxic gas occurs on the seabed it does not threaten human life and does not make the headlines."

So, not a "rocky" island, as reported earlier today, but a muddy one. It won't be there very long, unless mud continues to erupt.

onehuman
I am also curious as to how far away this was from the epicenter. I mean, would this be a sign of where the pressure relieved itself? I am also curious as to how deep the water is that this arose from.

Also, why didnt it cause a wave shift in the ocean. That seems like a lot of energy to push that thing up.

Also, I'd like to know the timeframe... how long did it take for this island to 'pop up' as one of the sources in this thread described. Did it emerge in slo-mo so that onlookers could watch it occuring, or did people just walk outside at some point after the earthquake and go, "Oh, look... an island has risen from the sea due to the previous earthquake." For that matter, is it still rising? Are they sure it's finished?

reply to post by Olivine

So, not a "rocky" island, as reported earlier today, but a muddy one. It won't be there very long, unless mud continues to erupt.

That makes a lot more sense. Thanks for posting!

reply to post by Dolby_X

here a video that look like to be film on the island

I don't think so, as the guy being interviewed says no one has been able to get out to the island... it's apparently 2km off the coast. Could be a video of a similar event in the past, though?

S&F Cool story, the earth is always changing.

But watch how the lame stream media will spin this story to support the beating war drum against Pakistan. I can see the talking head spewing "The United States fears for its national security as Pakistan has begun building a land bridge to attack America...."

Like I said this is exciting REAL news and a breath of fresh air from the sewage stream of the MSM.

Dolby_X
here a video that look like to be film on the island

Great. A new island and 7 hours later it is already a new fanatic Islamic country.

Zarniwoop
reply to post by violet

 

Here's the best picture I've found yet for the island they are saying popped up...

If this is true, it is truly amazing.

If that's actually the island, then they have their distance estimates wrong. That is no way 350 feet from shore, as the sources state.

Talking to Geo news, the DIG said that the island emerged at a distance of 350 feet in the sea from the Gwadar coast.

My source you ask?: I am a master of depth perception AND I can hit a golf ball 350 feet with my pitching wedge.