In a rare and miraculous development, a new island emerged off Gwadar coast following a powerful earthquake of 7.8 magnitude struck Pakistan on Tuesday. As per officials the new island has the altitude is 20 to 40 feet and width around 100 feet. The island has emerged at a distance of 350 feet in the sea from the Gwadar coast. In the time of grief and mourning as the earthquake has killed at least 200 people and left hundreds injured and homeless, the new island has surprised all and still the geological causes and changes yet to be clearly revealed by the concerned department of Pakistan.
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According to the Meteorological Department, the epicentre of the 7.8 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. Tremors were felt as far away as the Indian capital of New Delhi, hundreds of miles to the east, where buildings shook, as well as the sprawling port city of Karachi in Pakistan. The earthquake was so powerful that it caused the seabed to rise and create a small, mountain-like island about 600 meters (yards) off Pakistan's Gwadar coastline in the Arabian Sea.
Television channels showed images of a stretch of rocky terrain rising above the sea level, with a crowd of bewildered people gathering on the shore to witness the rare phenomenon. Officials said scores of mud houses were destroyed by aftershocks in the thinly populated mountainous area near the quake epicenter in Baluchistan, a huge barren province of deserts and rugged mountains.
