A Bird’s Eye View of Earth’s Newest Island
This
island was created off the coast of Gwadar when Pakistan was hit by a
7.8-magnitude earthquake on Sept. 24, 2013. Imagery collected on Sept.
26, 2013.
A massive earthquake that tragically killed more than 300 people
and destroyed scores of mud huts in southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday
also offered a surreal moment of creation. The tremor unleashed an
underwater “mud volcano” that spewed mud and earth to create a new
island, half a mile off the coast of the Pakistani port city of Gwadar.
This satellite image, published for the first time here, depicts the
200-foot-wide island (and 100 feet high) in the middle of the Arabian
Sea.
2 comments:
Vietnam should claim the island!
yes, I see Haoni written on the new island!
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