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Strange waves rippled around the world, and nobody knows why
National Geographic ^ | Nov 28, 2018 | Maya Wei-Haas

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 ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: 20181111; africa; catastrophism; earthquake; earthquakes; eruption; fenambosychevrons; indianocean; isolatedincidents; madagascar; mayotte; quake; quakes; volcano
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To: ETL

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.


41 posted on 11/29/2018 10:58:49 PM PST by triSranch (Violence is rarely the answer, but when it is, its the only answer.)
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To: ETL

Say it, SAY IT, it’s Godzilla!


42 posted on 11/29/2018 10:59:55 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: triSranch

but probably not...


43 posted on 11/29/2018 11:02:34 PM PST by triSranch (Violence is rarely the answer, but when it is, its the only answer.)
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To: ETL

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.


44 posted on 11/29/2018 11:05:16 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

I saw that episode... They came up empty.


45 posted on 11/30/2018 2:05:48 AM PST by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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To: ETL



46 posted on 11/30/2018 2:51:54 AM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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47 posted on 11/30/2018 7:28:01 AM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: ETL

Did Michael Moore fall down again?


48 posted on 11/30/2018 7:33:49 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: TigersEye

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.


49 posted on 11/30/2018 7:34:04 AM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: Deaf Smith
There was a FR thread awhile back (with pics) of a island of pumice in the Pacific Ocean.

Thanks. Found this just now...

Huge Pumice ‘Island’ Floats in Pacific

By Megan Gannon, Live Science Contributor
August 10, 2012

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

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50 posted on 11/30/2018 7:43:39 AM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: Bullish

Spiny Norman is the root of all evil!


51 posted on 11/30/2018 8:46:45 AM PST by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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52 posted on 11/30/2018 8:47:49 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ETL

GOJIRA!!!!


53 posted on 11/30/2018 8:49:31 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: ETL

Somalian pirates testing a nuke.
Now they will hold the world hostage.


54 posted on 11/30/2018 8:57:03 AM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.,)
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To: Ancesthntr

Stoopidest
Movie
Ever


55 posted on 11/30/2018 9:00:05 AM PST by numberonepal (WWG1WGA)
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To: ETL

Book mark


56 posted on 11/30/2018 11:34:18 AM PST by missthethunder
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To: ETL
I just ignore any such fake implications and focus on the rest of the story.

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.

57 posted on 11/30/2018 4:04:27 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Fred Nerks

[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.]

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/11/strange-earthquake-waves-rippled-around-world-earth-geology/


58 posted on 12/01/2018 11:47:32 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7

Earth is still expanding...


59 posted on 12/01/2018 1:35:50 PM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: ETL

Maybe it’s just Santa tuning up his hemi-sled for Christmas Eve.........


60 posted on 12/01/2018 1:38:50 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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