{"id":2319,"date":"2013-10-04T07:38:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T07:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/save-our-green.com\/allpost\/?p=2319"},"modified":"2015-06-16T13:14:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T07:44:15","slug":"earthquake-island-of-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/earthquake-island-of-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Earthquake Island’ of Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Earthquake Island’, Pakistan<\/p>\n

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Earthquake Island of Pakistan, Image credit: NASA<\/p><\/div>\n

Amidst the destruction caused by the devastating earthquake in Pakistan that killed more than 500 people, a new island has emerged from the depth of the Arabian sea. Called Zalzala Jazeera, or a an earthquake island, the terrestrial formation can now be found 380 kilometers from the earthquake\u2019s epicenter in Paddi Zirr Bay near Swadar, Pakistan in the Arabian Sea.<\/p>\n

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Earthquake Island<\/p><\/div>\n

Scientists are still far from consensus, but most of them believe that the new piece of land is probably a mud volcano. A mud volcano is the most probable because Gwadar’s coastline already has several of the gurgling, steamy cones, both onshore and at sea. These things have appeared there in past . Mud volcanoes appear when sediments like silt and clay become pressurized by hot gas trapped underground. A subduction zone beneath Pakistan supplies the tectonic activity that heats and holds the gas. The Arabian and Eurasian tectonic plates collide offshore of Pakistan, forming a subduction zone, but this earthquake was onshore and mostly strike-slip \u2014 each side of the fault moved horizontally. This might have caused the mud volcano.<\/p>\n

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People use boats as they visit this Island<\/p><\/div>\n

On the other hand Geologist Dave Petley, a landslide expert, suggests from the island’s low, arcuate (or bow) shape, it might have been a rotational landslide, rather than a conical mud volcano. A rotational landslide moves along a rupture surface that is curved or concave, like the inside of a spoon, much similar to the picture of the island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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