Island emerges near Gwadar coast after earthquake

A bit of digging will reveal that there is solid rock sand and muddy sediment to the island and something not a lot of people are talking about which is the fact that there is a lot of methane gas leaking out.


Why is this important that they dont mention this??
Methane is one of the worst greenhouse gases. An earthquake like this could release tons of the stuff and there would be no way to measure or track it. Are the morons charging us a carbon tax going to charge this island or mother nature for this fart?

NASA releases images of Pakistan's 'Earthquake Island'

According to scientists, the depth of the water level around Zalzala Jazeera stands at about 15 to 20 meters, stretching 75 to 90 meters across. It lies approximately one mile from the shore. Scientists say the island is nothing more than just a pile of mud, sand and solid rock that was caused by the forces of highly pressurized gas.

The island is really just a big pile of mud from the seafloor that got pushed up. This area of the world seems to see so many of these features because the geology is correct for their formation. You need a shallow, buried layer of pressurized gas—methane, carbon dioxide, or something else—and fluids. When that layer becomes disturbed by seismic waves (like an earthquake), the gases and fluids become buoyant and rush to the surface, bringing the rock and mud with them,” Bill Barnhart, a geologist at the US Geological Survey told NASA’s Earth Observatory.

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