Pakistan earthquakes create a new

The 7.7-magnitude earthquake in Pakistan on September 24 not only caused hundreds of deaths and injuries but also created a new island off the coast, according to CNN on September 25.

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According to local police official Mozzam Jah, a very powerful earthquake pushed from the ocean to a mass of about 6-9m as a small island off Gwadar, and many people gathered to see the new island. this.

The picture shows the island emerging after the September 24 earthquake off Gwadar - (Photo: ABC News)

News of GEO TV station said the new island is about 30m wide, about 1.6km from the shore. A fisherman who witnessed the formation of the island told ABC News it was a gradual rather than a sudden process "like a ghost image".

"The whole people in the village went to the coast to look at it and pray together , " he said. "Tomorrow, I will go to the sea to see it closer."

Zahid Rafi - the leading seismic expert of Pakistan Seismic Monitoring Center, confirmed the formation of the new island and said 'not surprisingly' based on the intensity of the earthquake.

Meanwhile, John Bellini, a geophysicist of the US Geological Survey (USGS), said that a 7.7-magnitude earthquake is unlikely to produce such a large island.

Instead, he argued that the island's appearance may be due to many factors, such as the tide.