PAKISTAN'S NEW ISLAND CREATED BY LATEST EARTHQUAKE EMITS TOXIC GAS THAT KILLS SEA LIFE

New island is 18 meters high and 600 meters off the coast is now emitting flammable gases.

Dead fish have been spotted floating on the surface of the waters surrounding the island and visitors have heard hissing noises from the escaping gas.

Richard Luckett a seismologist at the British Geological Survey said that these mud volcanoes are relatively common in this area on both land and sea.

They occur where there is a reservoir of loosely compacted sediments buried beneath harder, denser rock and a path is made to the surface. 

 

There is a subducting plate boundary in this region where the Arabian plate is converging on the Eurasian plate at about 2cm a year and being pushed beneath it.

 

This is the same plate boundary responsible for the magnitude 7.7 earthquake.

Scientists believe gases associated with the melting at the plate boundary contribute to heating the mud in the reservoirs and making it more fluid.

 

This type island tend to disappear over time.

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