[decimon]

Sea change ping.

[mnehring]

Interesting satellite image. You can see the fault in the ocean near Somalia and if you follow its path through Kenya, there is a line of lakes up until the big one, Lake Turkana. It almost looks like that entire section of Africa will split off.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=Ethiopia&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=47.704107,79.277344&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FaiKiwAdydJpAg&split=0&hq=&hnear=Ethiopia&t=h&z=6

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Well, now, won’t this lower the ocean levels?

[uncommonsense]

"Seafloor ridges are made up of sections, each of which can be hundreds of miles long. Because of this study, we now know that each one of those segments can tear open in a just a few days."

Hmmmmmm.... Maybe it doesn't take 50 billion years for significant geological events to manifest?

Seems like great news for Ethiopia. Their drought problems will abate.

[JoeProBono]

"Scientists say they have witnessed the possible birth of a future ocean basin growing in north-eastern Ethiopia. The team watched an 8m rift develop in the ground in just three weeks in the Afar desert region last September. It is one small step in a long-term split that is tearing the east of the country from the rest of Africa and should eventually create a huge sea. " (BBC)

[50sDad]

Bush’s fault.

[fso301]

Interesting. A fissure 20 feet wide is probably not uncommon for large earthquakes. Rather than waiting 1K years for the next big separation, it would be neat if it continued opening 20 feet per year so we could witness the creation of a new sea in our lifetimes.

I wonder if compression from this event caused compression that resulted in the Indonesian submarine quake/tsunami?

Wonder if any oil or gas is bubbling up?

[thackney]

Interesting

[ClearCase_guy]

Damn that Global Warming!

[Bernard Marx]

The headline and sub-head on this press release are definitely misleading!

It's the mechanism of the tectonic spreading that's the news, not the fact that a new ocean is in the making. That's been known for many years. Here's the news:

"Ayele's reconstruction of events showed that the rift did not open in a series of small earthquakes over an extended period of time, but tore open along its entire 35-mile length in just days."

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Fight Plate Tectonics, NOW!

[T Minus Four]

We’ve-got-to-get-him-out-of-there ping

[fieldmarshaldj]

A new ocean in Ethiopia ? Does that mean Haile Selassie is the Kwisatz Haderach ?

[PA-RIVER]

Our Presidents country, Kenya, could get wiped out with a tidal wave if this happens.

This is not good. All of his family is there. Brothers, aunts, uncles.

Is the secret service aware of this?

[Old Professer]

Another AGW caualty.

[puppypusher]

Imagine that.Turning a desert waste into something usefull.Who said there wasn’t a god?

That’s probably the best thing that ever happend to eastern Africa since continental drift.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks decimon. I think there's been a topic about this, but this is an update, plus it's been a long time.

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[CedarDave]

Isn’t this area below sea level right now?? If the rift reaches the ocean the whole area may flood, similar to what may have happened when the Mediterranean reached the Black Sea.

[papasmurf]

God, or Mother Nature (which God created), is at work maintaining our Earth.

It’s NOT nice to mess with Mother Nature. Ya’ hear that, you enviro loonies?

[papasmurf]

I think I’ll buy some (future) ocean front property in Ethiopia for an investment.

No, better yet, I think I’ll start selling ocean front property in Ethiopia...to Demoncrats!