Thursday, 26 September 2013

An earthquake of magnitude 7.7 has created a new island



An earthquake of 7.7 magnitude massive-hit south-central Pakistan on Tuesday afternoon. The USGS says that there will be heavy human and economic losses , requiring an international response. The seismologists , they have witnessed the emergence of a new island.

The new girl is therefore at about 0.8 kilometers off the coast of Gwadar in the Arabian Sea. Crowds gathered to see this rock a hundred feet island.

It is not unusual for earthquakes of this magnitude to change the coastline, or even distort the planet. In 2010, a 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile has created new coastline and changed the shape of the Earth , enough to shorten our days by a fraction of a second.


Regarding our earthquake, it will probably days before we knew not the extent of damage, simply because it has hit many areas, especially remote.

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