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Title: Earthquake forms new island!
Post by: Unorthodox on September 24, 2013, 10:51:30 pm

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/24/us-pakistan-quake-idUSBRE98N0HJ20130924 (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/24/us-pakistan-quake-idUSBRE98N0HJ20130924)

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(Reuters) - A major earthquake hit a remote part of western Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 45 people and prompting a new island to rise from the sea just off the country's southern coast.

Tremors were felt as far away as the Indian capital of New Delhi, hundreds of miles to the east, where buildings shook, as well as the sprawling port city of Karachi in Pakistan.

The United States Geological Survey said the 7.8 magnitude quake struck 145 miles southeast of Dalbandin in Pakistan's quake-prone province of Baluchistan, which borders Iran.

The earthquake was so powerful that it caused the seabed to rise and create a small, mountain-like island about 600 meters (yards) off Pakistan's Gwadar coastline in the Arabian Sea.

Television channels showed images of a stretch of rocky terrain rising above the sea level, with a crowd of bewildered people gathering on the shore to witness the rare phenomenon.

Officials said scores of mud houses were destroyed by aftershocks in the thinly populated mountainous area near the quake epicenter in Baluchistan, a huge barren province of deserts and rugged mountains.

Abdul Qadoos, deputy speaker of the Baluchistan assembly, told Reuters that at least 30 percent of houses in the impoverished Awaran district had caved in.

The local deputy commissioner in Awaran, Abdul Rasheed Gogazai, and the spokesman of Pakistan's Frontier Corps involved in the rescue effort said at least 45 people had been killed.

In the regional capital of Quetta, officials said some areas appeared to be badly damaged but it was hard to assess the impact quickly because the locations were so remote.

Chief secretary Babar Yaqoob said earlier that 25 people had been injured and that the death toll was expected to increase as many people appeared to be trapped inside their collapsed homes.

Local television reported that helicopters carrying relief supplies had been dispatched to the affected area. The army said it had deployed 200 troops to help deal with the disaster.

 :tada:

So...who owns the island?

Title: Re: Earthquake forms new island!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 24, 2013, 11:00:23 pm

I'm sure there's old international law covering that sort of thing.

Title: Re: Earthquake forms new island!
Post by: Geo on September 25, 2013, 07:19:45 pm

Quote from: Unorthodox on September 24, 2013, 10:51:30 pm

:tada:

So...who owns the island?

Iceland?  ;)

But in all seriousnes, its way inside Pakistan's 12-mile territorial zone, so shouldn't be an issue.

Title: Re: Earthquake forms new island!
Post by: Unorthodox on September 25, 2013, 07:58:44 pm

Quote from: Geo on September 25, 2013, 07:19:45 pm

Quote from: Unorthodox on September 24, 2013, 10:51:30 pm

:tada:

So...who owns the island?

Iceland?  ;)

But in all seriousnes, its way inside Pakistan's 12-mile territorial zone, so shouldn't be an issue.

You telling me GI Joe lied to me? 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_Island (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_Island)

Title: Re: Earthquake forms new island!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 25, 2013, 08:05:46 pm

Green1 told me GI Joes is no good.

Title: Re: Earthquake forms new island!
Post by: Unorthodox on September 25, 2013, 08:11:20 pm

They ain't.  Cobra Commander was just incredibly inept.  ;)  (maybe I needs me a destro avatar/dl) (no, BU, don't work on one)

Title: Re: Earthquake forms new island!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 25, 2013, 08:18:19 pm

I made you two over a month ago. 

I need to add some recent stuff to the installed smiles, now that I think of it.  -Better leave off the hEt avatar, though...

Title: Re: Earthquake forms new island!
Post by: Unorthodox on September 25, 2013, 08:21:54 pm

I knew you had just couldn't remember WHERE, ya know? 

Besides no ones takin this one. 

Title: Re: Earthquake forms new island!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 25, 2013, 08:23:07 pm

BU's Foul Mood thread.  It ended the first foul mood to be of service to my friends...

Title: Re: Earthquake forms new island!
Post by: Unorthodox on September 25, 2013, 08:26:35 pm

My mind doesn't do chronological order very well.  Had one just today in the Halloween forum.  "You need to do the so-and-so method from last year, let me go find it."   It was from 2007.  2007, 2012, same thing in me brain. 

Title: Re: Earthquake forms new island!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 25, 2013, 08:43:11 pm

Okay, you're in the installed smilies three times now...