{"id":5088,"date":"2013-09-27T17:16:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T07:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=5088"},"modified":"2013-09-27T17:16:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T07:16:33","slug":"islands-can-arrive-and-disappear-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2013\/09\/islands-can-arrive-and-disappear-overnight-5088.html","title":{"rendered":"Islands Can Arrive (and disappear) Overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pakistan’s recent deadly 7.8 magnitude earthquake had a surprising twist – an entire island rose out of the ocean.<\/p>\n

The earthquake was so powerful that it caused the seabed to rise and create a small, mountain-like island about 600 metres off Pakistan’s Gwadar coastline in the Arabian Sea. [ABC Australia<\/a>]<\/p>\n
“It’s an oval shaped island which is about 250ft to 300ft (76-91m) in length, and about 60 to 70ft above the water,” he said. It has a rough surface, much of which is muddy and some parts are mostly made up of fine- to coarse-grained sand. [BBC<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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So if an island can come into rapid existence, presumably one can disappear just as easily, like Atlantis allegedly did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pakistan’s recent deadly 7.8 magnitude earthquake had a surprising twist – an entire island rose out of the ocean.<\/p>\n

\nI think it looks bigger in the photo than it really is, because it is only 600 meters from the shoreline:
\nThe earthquake was so powerful that it caused the seabed to rise and create a small, mountain-like island about 600 metres off Pakistan’s Gwadar coastline in the Arabian Sea. [ABC Australia]
\n“It’s an oval shaped island which is about 250ft to 300ft (76-91m) in length, and about 60 to 70ft above the water,” he said. It has a rough surface, much of which is muddy and some parts are mostly made up of fine- to coarse-grained sand. [BBC]<\/p>\n
So if an island can come into rapid existence, presumably one can disappear just as easily, like Atlantis allegedly did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5088"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5094,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088\/revisions\/5094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}