Island emerges near Gwadar coast after earthquake(https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/q71/s720x720/563531_639910669382517_782573569_n.jpg)
QuoteQUETTA: In a rare development, an island emerged off Gwadar coast after a powerful earthquake of 7.7 magnitude struck Pakistan on Tuesday.
According to DIG Gwadar Moazzam Jah, the island's altitude is 20 to 40 feet and width around 100 feet.
Talking to Geo news, the DIG said that the island emerged at a distance of 350 feet in the sea from the Gwadar coast.
According to the Meteorological Department, the epicentre of the 7.7 magnitude earthquake was 120Km southwest of Khuzdar in Balochistan province at a depth of 10 kilometres. The US Geological Survey measured the earthquake at 7.8.
http://www.geo.tv/article-119677-Island-emerges-near-Gwadar-coast-after-earthquake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccy_CrNIfII
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is it 1st come then you plant a flag and you can claim it as your own?
pretty sure a really really small one popped up around the UK just big enough
to sit on but the bloke who saw it swam out and laid claim to it.
till it sank back beneath where it came from :P
hmm see if i can find the story.
Anything that suddenly popped up within the 12 nautical miles of territorial sea is automatically exclusively that of the nation that territorial sea belongs to. More importanltly, it pushes the territorial sea out further from where that new land is. Additionally, the exclusive economic territorial zone extends from the outer limit of the territorial sea to a maximum of 200 nautical miles (370.4 km) from the territorial sea baseline.
This is why there's been so much verbal, legal, and naval arm wresting over the South China Sea islands clamed by Japan, China, Taiwan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senkaku_Islands
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=2738.msg37889#msg37889
have you heard of this place ;D sealand. crazy.cannot find the other article yet....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand)
http://www.sealandgov.org/ (http://www.sealandgov.org/)
Yes I have. It would be a lovely place to spend a North Sea winter with a big pile of books, comfy blanket, and watching Mother Nature do what she does best outside. ;D
prince ROY of sealand LOL
great wartoad I love it. you can get a knighthood they issued 150 000 passports lol