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Just before 9.30am on Sunday 11 November, a series of unusual seismic pulses rippled around the world almost undetected.
The waves rang for over 20 minutes, emanating about 15 miles off the shores of Mayotte - a tiny island in the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and Africa.
From here, they reverberated across Africa, setting off geological sensors in Zambia, Kenya, and Ethiopia.
They crossed the Atlantic, and were picked up in Chile, New Zealand, Canada, and even Hawaii nearly 11,000 miles away, the National Geographic reports.
Despite their huge range, the waves were apparently not felt by anybody. However, one person monitoring the US Geological Survey's live stream of seismogram displays did notice the unusual waveform and posted it to Twitter, sparking the interest of other geologists and earthquake enthusiasts.
[...] The bizarre waveform is what scientists call "monochromatic". Earthquakes normally produce waves of so many different frequencies, the wave readings appear more jumbled.
But the mystery waveform from Mayotte was a crisp zigzag, which repeated after steady 17-second intervals.
"They're too nice. They're too perfect to be nature," joked the University of Glasgow's Helen Robinson, who is study[ing] for a PhD in applied volcanology.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 05 2018, @08:08PM
It is the first level effects from the singularity that got shot into the planet in the Tunguska event. It has been slowing down and accumulating more matter, but as it slows the accretion accelerates. From the bits and pieces we've managed to put together the extra terrestrials that did this have judged us based on our future timeline. Not much else has gotten out, but one of the more popular theories is that humanity must pass through a critical juncture and make the right choice or KABLOOIE!
My personal take is that it is the general rise of corrupt populism. If it takes over the world then humanity's future becomes dark and so we get exterminated. If humanity can stick to its higher values and shirk off the rationalization of greedy corruption and hate then the singularity gets removed before it finishes its one way tour of our planet's interior.
Y'all just know the big test is the Mueller investigation, so much corruption and scandal centered on Trump. Yep, we gotta take down the criminal Trump enterprise for the good of the whole planet!