Residents on the remote island of Ranongga sit on a coral reef on 07 April 2007. The reef was exposed by the force of this week's earthquake that lifted Ranongga and pushed out its shoreline by tens of metres.(AFP/William West)
Posted on 04/07/2007 4:45:05 AM PDT by mfnorman
The force of this week's Solomons earthquake has lifted an island in the South Pacific archipelago and pushed out its shoreline by tens of metres, exposing surrounding reefs.
The remote island of Ranongga in the western Solomon Islands used to have submerged coral reefs that attracted scuba divers from around the world.
But since Monday's massive earthquake in the Solomon Islands, the reefs are now exposed above the water and are dying, an AFP reporter and photographer have seen.
The AFP team, which travelled to Ranongga on a chartered outboard after the quake, saw exposed reefs bleaching in the sun, and covered with dead fish, eels, clams and other marine life.
The 8.0-magnitude quake, caused by a shift in the Earth's tectonic plates, triggered a tsunami that killed at least 34 people in the remote western Solomons and left 5,500 homeless.
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“Bush’s Fault!!!”
did cow farts cause this?
And Algore and the feckless UN think we can change nature. What a transparent grab for our cash and for control of our resources! Those depending on government to halt global warming should be made to answer this question: What situation has ever been improved by the UN?
I believe that would be whales.
for once a natural disaster that can actually be proven that man did not create
Wow. The description doesn’t do this justice. Check out the pic at the link.
That said, I don’t understand how SUVs caused this? I guess nature happened.
The asininity of these people seems to have no upper limit. They act like events like this have never before occurred in the history of the planet. Of course, this HAS happened before, and the coral and the fish have come back from those PREVIOUS events---so why should things be different this time??? Global warming, maybe????
Not to worry. The melting icebergs will soon take care of that.
Just give them some time --- they will find a way.
They should get down on their knees and give thanks that the island went up and not down.
Going down would have given them bigger problems to deal with.
in the liberal mind it probably would have been better if the island had gone down instead of up. if it had gone down then only meaningless human life would have been lost instead of the precious innocent marine life and coral reefs.
No, no, no, it was the Rovian earthquake-volcano generator. Very signficant test.
Residents on the remote island of Ranongga sit on a coral reef on 07 April 2007. The reef was exposed by the force of this week's earthquake that lifted Ranongga and pushed out its shoreline by tens of metres.(AFP/William West)
You mean MOTHER GAIA destroyed a REEF?
I thought only MAN could do that through his uncaring ways, and only by accepting THE GORACLE as our Prophet, and Radical Socialism as our Savior, could we hope to save the planet!!!!!!
HOW CAN THIS BE!!!
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Well, at least now when the ice caps melt, and the sea rises, the islands will remain above water!
from the story linked:
Although Ranongga escaped the fury of the tsunami, the seismic upheaval from the quake pushed out the shoreline by up to 70 metres, local resident Hendrik Kegala also said.
"Plenty big noise," he told AFP in the local pidgin dialect.
"Water go back and not come back again," he added, saying the whooshing sound of the receding water and the shaking from the quake occurred simultaneously.
Hmm, are they certain it wasn't actually R'lyeh being thrust upwards? Anyone else having particularly vivid nightmares recently?
OK, any other H. P. Lovecraft fans out there?
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