Pakistan earthquake creates new island: a methane mud volcano

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"Deadly Pakistan quake creates new island"
LBN thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014602694

Reply #1:

The mystery of Pakistan’s new quake island
Wednesday, 25 September 2013

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Mohammad Danish, a marine biologist from Pakistan’s National Institute of Oceanography, said a team of experts had visited the island and found methane gas rising.

“Our team found bubbles rising from the surface of the island which caught fire when a match was lit and we forbade our team to start any flame. It is methane gas,” Danish said on GEO television news.

The island is about 18 to 21 meters high, up to 91 feet wide and up to 36 meters long, he said. It sits about 200 meters away from the coast.

Gary Gibson, a seismologist with Australia’s University of Melbourne, said the new island was likely to be a “mud volcano,” created by methane gas forcing material upwards during the violent shaking of the earthquake.

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[krispos42]

1. How much methane?

That's my worry... it's a greenhouse gas.


If the quake raised up the local seafloor out of the zone where methane hydrate stays solid (frozen), then we could get a massive gas release.

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2. New island proves claims of sea level rise

bogus.