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POPS Africa breaks apart in slow motion

by amgumen 1-22-2011

"The most violent upsurge of magma in recent years, though, happened in an unexpected place. In May 2009, a subterranean volcano erupted in Saudi Arabia. A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 accompanied by tens of thousands of milder tremors forced 30,000 to seek shelter. Magma spewed out of the ground in an area about the size of Berlin and Hamburg combined. The fact that the eruption took place almost 200 kilometers (124 miles) away from the fault line in North Africa "surprised all of us. And the world's largest geological construction site continues to expand. Loraine Field confirms that more and more magma is pushing its way to the earth's surface, adding that: "The magma chamber is reloading." Oxford University's David Ferguson predicts a considerable increase in volcanic eruptions and earthquakes in the region over the next decade. They will, he says, "become of increasingly large magnitude."

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POPS Giant Crack in Africa Will Create a New Ocean

by amgumen 11-3-2009

The thinking is that the Red Sea will eventually pour into the new sea in a million years or so. The new ocean would connect to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, an arm of the Arabian Sea between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Somalia in eastern Africa.

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POPS THE BIRTH OF AN OCEAN