Earthquake pushes reefs out of water

[kau_cinta_ku]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070407/wl_afp/solomonsquakeisland_070407125221

that is not a good thing as there are alot of fragile reefs in that area

 

[Hunterx]

Well this time you really can't stop mother nature.
I shure the reefs will recover since this can't be the first time this happened.

 

[tropicalfishguy]

Wow, thats pretty sad. Hopefully they can rebound somehow

 

[shiftyfatdwarf]

that sux but i agree with hunterx you can't stop mother nature. what it does we can't stop

 

[sipos624]

True true, you can't stop mother nature, thats how half the islands were made in the south pacific.

 

[Rosseau]

It is certainly natural and has been happening to reefs since they've been around on this planet. What potentially makes this different is a decreased ability of the reef to rebound to these losses due to a host of other stressors.


Pretty cool though.

 

[steelerguy]

Wow, really shows you the massive forces the Earth can generate

 

[adimal]

all the clowns from solomon islands....sad

 

[Fishdude1984]

i wish i could watch that, the video must have been removed

 

[KurtsReef]

Here is a NG link that has 5 photographs.


http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070410-solomons-photos.html

 

[Canute]

At least these islands won't go under soon due to rising sea levels .

 

[Arkayne]

At least it was 10ft UP and not down. It would be a much smaller island if that happened.

 

[chrisqueenz]

Wow, would of liked to have watched it take place

 

[loosecannon]

Adimal leave the Hawaiian fish alone? Hawii just so happins to be the best place to buy fish the laws are better and better inforst. Is it better to buy fish where they still use CYANIDE! reefs have been around for ooo,ooo of years,what man dose is what we need to look out four!

 

[boviac]

I think there is a National Park in Utah called Capital Reef referring to the geologic aspect it was once a reef and is now more than a mile up and about 1,000 miles from the ocean. Go figure. Theres a lot to be said about the wrong place at the wrong time.

 

[chesapeake]

in the chesapeake bay we have calvert cliffs that have coral fossels from the ocean and now its the center point of the chesapeake things do change the earth does move and it heats up and it cools. the problem now is the 200million people on the planet alot of them located in places that are vonerable to the earths ravages.