• Deadly Pakistan earthquake so powerful it creates a new island, troops sent
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[QUOTE=OvB;42299083]If it's within Pakistan's EEZ then it's likely theirs for the taking.[/QUOTE] what if, hypothetically, this island was created in international waters. could i just sail there and take it?
[QUOTE=yawmwen;42299093]what if, hypothetically, this island was created in international waters. could i just sail there and take it?[/QUOTE] Yours for the taking. (assuming you could defend it)
[QUOTE=yawmwen;42299093]what if, hypothetically, this island was created in international waters. could i just sail there and take it?[/QUOTE] any of the surrounding nations would probably tell you to fuck right off
[QUOTE=OvB;42299108]Yours for the taking. (amusing you could defend it)[/QUOTE] i too would laugh
[t]http://www.lspace.org/ftp/images/bookcovers/uk/jingo-2.jpg[/t] Sadly it probably won't last long.
Let's start a kickstarter to buy it for FP.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;42299027]so um is this land automatically part of pakistan? is there a general rule for who gets sovereignty over landmasses created by natural events?[/QUOTE] Yeah there's general rules and seems to be in pakistans territorial waters on top of that. And was most likely part of the continental shelf before that as well. [QUOTE=yawmwen;42299093]what if, hypothetically, this island was created in international waters. could i just sail there and take it?[/QUOTE] Generally as long as it's in some area you can't take and is outside of the economic zone, completely in international waters, you could technically fund a new nations and start petitioning other nations for recognition. Of course you would need to pass 3 areas first natural Land - well you have that Population - might be harder as long as you have citizenship somewhere else willingness to maintain the nation, and partially ability as well (though willingness is more important based on ww2 exile government cases) For instance Sealand is not considered a nation generally because it doesn't pass all but one single test. Natural land outside of control of another - it's a human built for and it's within the UKs EEZ actually might even be national waters now Population - everyone there is generally a UK citizen first Willingness to maintain - they pass it trough both attempts of building diplomatic ties as well as force on a few occassions.
I like how the pictures and videos of the island are shaky and grainy so it's like a hoax.
Let's go plant grass and trees there and turn it into a recreational facility
Yes let's put a red circle around the island in case it wasn't completely obvious enough.
FP should buy it
Images from the island. [IMG]http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/images/full/2013/09/25/412469-pakistan-earthquake-new-island.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/images/full/2013/09/25/412470-pakistan-earthquake-new-island.jpg[/IMG] Source: [URL="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/508930/20130925/pakistan-earthquake-baluchistan-new-island.htm"]http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/508930/20130925/pakistan-earthquake-baluchistan-new-island.htm[/URL]
[QUOTE=lifehole;42299048]I call dibs![/QUOTE] (hands you a comically over-sized key with the words "ISLAND" written on it)
Here's another picture from the scene. [img]http://echostation57.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/vintage-cthulhu.gif[/img] Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
[URL="http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/pakistan-neue-insel-ragt-nach-erdbeben-aus-dem-meer-a-924463.html"]Spiegel Online has a few images too.[/URL] Apparently the island is just mud and expected to crumble again in a few months. It seems to come from a mud volcano and there's methane in a flammable concentration bubbling from the surface.
[QUOTE=Tamschi;42303326][URL="http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/pakistan-neue-insel-ragt-nach-erdbeben-aus-dem-meer-a-924463.html"]Spiegel Online has a few images too.[/URL] Apparently the island is just mud and expected to crumble again in a few months. It seems to come from a mud volcano and there's methane in a flammable concentration bubbling from the surface.[/QUOTE] So we better wait a bit before we start burning our atlases and make new ones?
IT'S HAPPENING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[QUOTE=ironman17;42298520]Wonder how long it'll last before the forces of nature causes it to sink?[/QUOTE] earthquakes don't go in reverse so I'll say a long time. The tectonic plate shifted up.
[QUOTE=Toyhobo;42298687]I don't want to come off as a condecending dick, but doesn't schools teach this in other countries? Anyways, the island is probably going to stay until a new tectonic plate movement starts and causes another earthquake, or it might grow bigger or just stay the way it is now. The island is created when two or more plates collide and the force of the collision forces the earth to bend upwards and thus sticking out of water. basically this [img]http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/images/tectonics-collide.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] [QUOTE=laserguided;42298784]That is basic stuff... if that shit isn't shown in whatever you read then I'm sorry but you had one shitty distance education. You wouldn't pass the exams here.[/QUOTE] I didnt have that in the school I was in before I went to college, but what I'm studying now has nothing to do with earthquakes, so its cool. But I still know how this works pretty much. Toyhobo, did you learn that in 7-9th grade, college or whatever?
The island seems potentially unsafe, considering that it's apparently emitting flammable gas....guess it could be a potential place for sea birds to nest or something, still though, it's rare to hear something like this happening in a lifetime. Wonder if there's anything interesting on the island, or maybe something of scientific value on it, surely i would've picked up some sort of debris from the sea like crabs or something, since there was gas, there might have been creatures nearby that might shown natural resistance...if some had leaked out in the past.
[QUOTE=Plucky;42306914]The island seems potentially unsafe, considering that it's apparently emitting flammable gas....guess it could be a potential place for sea birds to nest or something, still though, it's rare to hear something like this happening in a lifetime. Wonder if there's anything interesting on the island, or maybe something of scientific value on it, surely i would've picked up some sort of debris from the sea like crabs or something, since there was gas, there might have been creatures nearby that might shown natural resistance...if some had leaked out in the past.[/QUOTE] It's probably made of sediment from the ocean floor, which I imagine would be a pretty big deal since recently I think we find completely new bacterial species from ocean sediment.
[QUOTE=shackleford;42299050]Yes they do teach it, provided that you chose the subject relevant to geological processes.[/QUOTE] Nah, you're supposed to learn that without choosing a class, 7th/8th grade or so.
It's like a reverse Atlantis.
[QUOTE=theobod;42304454]I didnt have that in the school I was in before I went to college, but what I'm studying now has nothing to do with earthquakes, so its cool. But I still know how this works pretty much. Toyhobo, did you learn that in 7-9th grade, college or whatever?[/QUOTE] Where I come from this was thought somewhere between 6th and 9th grades. Don't remember which but it was. High school then expanded on it.
I thought they sent troops to claim the new island.
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