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Posted on 11/29/2018 4:08:29 PM PST by ETL
On the morning of November 11, just before 9:30 UT, a mysterious rumble rolled around the world.
The seismic waves began roughly 15 miles off the shores of Mayotte, a French island sandwiched between Africa and the northern tip of Madagascar. The waves buzzed across Africa, ringing sensors in Zambia, Kenya, and Ethiopia. They traversed vast oceans, humming across Chile, New Zealand, Canada, and even Hawaii nearly 11,000 miles away.
These waves didn't just zip by; they rang for more than 20 minutes. And yet, it seems, no human felt them.
Only one person noticed the odd signal on the U.S. Geological Survey's real-time seismogram displays. An earthquake enthusiast who uses the handle @matarikipax saw the curious zigzags and posted images of them to Twitter. That small action kicked off another ripple of sorts, as researchers around the world attempted to suss out the source of the waves. Was it a meteor strike? A submarine volcano eruption? An ancient sea monster rising from the deep?
“I don't think I've seen anything like it,” says Göran Ekström, a seismologist at Columbia University who specializes in unusual earthquakes.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalgeographic.com ...
ok, I felt this one and asked my wife if she did, She said no. I reported another one once and was the only one in the area to do so. I think when I built my house on top of granite has something to do with this.
Elberton, Georgia is the “Granite Capital of the World about 18 to 20 miles away.
Say it, SAY IT, it’s Godzilla!
but probably not...
I hope they send the Seaview to check it out.
Admiral Nelson and Captain Crane will know what to do.
Kowalski and Sharkey will go out and investigate it in the Flying Sub.
I saw that episode... They came up empty.
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Did Michael Moore fall down again?
Yes, but that’s the case with practically every science article these days. I just ignore any such fake implications and focus on the rest of the story.
Thanks. Found this just now...
An “island” of floating pumice rocks bigger in area than Israel has been spotted in the South Pacific, New Zealand’s Royal Navy said.
Officers on a Royal New Zealand Air Force ship saw the rock raft southwest of Raoul Island yesterday (Aug. 9). It measures an astounding 300 miles (482 kilometers) in length and more than 30 miles (48 km) in width, the Navy said.”
https://www.livescience.com/22268-huge-pumice-island-floats-in-pacific.html
Spiny Norman is the root of all evil!
GOJIRA!!!!
Somalian pirates testing a nuke.
Now they will hold the world hostage.
Stoopidest
Movie
Ever
Book mark
So do I ... mostly. Not knocking you or even this particular article. Just airing my disgust with NatGeo which was a good publication once upon a time.
[Since mid-July, GPS stations on the island have tracked it sliding more than 2.4 inches to the east and 1.2 inches to the south, according data from Institut National de L’information Géographique et Forestière. Using these measurements, Pierre Briole of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris estimated that a magma body that measures about a third of a cubic mile is squishing its way through the subsurface near Mayotte.]
Earth is still expanding...
Maybe it’s just Santa tuning up his hemi-sled for Christmas Eve.........
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