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A New Ocean Is Being Formed in Africa
- giuliomagnifico 4y agoInteresting, but then why there aren’t earthquakes in Africa? If a continent is separating from another there should be some seismic activity I guess.
- isoprophlex 4y agoApparently there are; from the wiki page linked elsewhere in the comments: > The EAR is the largest seismically active rift system on Earth today. The majority of earthquakes occur near the Afar Depression, with the largest typically occurring along or near major border faults.[14] Seismic events in the past century are estimated to have reached a maximum moment magnitude of 7.0.
- giuliomagnifico 4y agoHmm interesting thanks, probably those are zones with very low population density, so an earthquake makes no big damages and we don’t know about them.
- masklinn 4y ago> Interesting, but then why there aren’t earthquakes in Africa? There was an earthquake off of the coast of Kenya 3 days ago: https://ds.iris.edu/ds/nodes/dmc/tools/event/11654975 https://ds.iris.edu/ds/nodes/dmc/tools/event/11654975 However the activity would likely be limited because it's a rift region, aka two plates moving apart from one another (diverging). Large quakes tend to happen in convergent and transform (slip) boundaries, because the two plates deform (due to friction) as they move against one another, loading with energy, then the plates slip (skid), releasing the deformation and the corresponding energy.
- mysterydip 4y agoA rift 35mi long, separating at a rate of 7mm per year.
- pfdietz 4y agoThe East African Rift zone is quite a bit longer than that (thousands of kilometers). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_African_Rift https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_African_Rift
- mysterydip 4y agoYes. The article talks about a 35mi long section, whether that's just the part turning into a sea, or the article is wrong, I'm not sure.
- robobro 4y agoWhy not just link directly to the Youtube video?
- baxtr 4y agoYeah. It’s basically just the transcript of the video. Which by itself reads like an AI generated text. It doesn’t tell a cohesive story. Just some facts in a seemingly random order. Weird.
- kzrdude 4y agoPhrasing is off, so it sounds like TTS in the video as well. My conclusion is that the whole thing is just blogspam/videospam.
- xtiansimon 4y agoCurious. I find these strangely phrased and synthetic sounding videos and figure they might be low quality click-bait. But this piece seems so banal, and then I imagined the same technology could be used by foreign English speakers to share their research. Obviously we have to judge the piece by its content, but there was a time when I heard that freakish voice and would disregard the content out of hand. Anyway, carryon…
- heleninboodler 4y agoProbably because the video is unwatchable clickbait with a robot voiceover and a lot of questionable video clips shown so briefly you can't tell they're fake before it cuts to the next one.
- readthenotes1 4y agoI would much rather read a transcript than watch a video. It's much quicker and many times more silent
- dwighttk 4y agoweird, that page got ads past my ad blocker... It was like 60% ad content, and was hard to find the "real" content.
- fourthark 4y agoSoon humanity might have two motherlands. Soon? Like geologically soon I guess.
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