from the don't-blame-me-it's-not-my-fault dept.
Geologists have for the first time seen and documented the Banda Detachment fault in eastern Indonesia and worked out how it formed.
Lead researcher Dr Jonathan Pownall from The Australian National University (ANU) said the find will help researchers assess dangers of future tsunamis in the area, which is part of the Ring of Fire - an area around the Pacific Ocean basin known for earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
"The abyss has been known for 90 years but until now no one has been able to explain how it got so deep," Dr Pownall said.
"Our research found that a 7 km-deep abyss beneath the Banda Sea off eastern Indonesia was formed by extension along what might be Earth's largest-identified exposed fault plane."
By analysing high-resolution maps of the Banda Sea floor, geologists from ANU and Royal Holloway University of London found the rocks flooring the seas are cut by hundreds of straight parallel scars.
These wounds show that a piece of crust bigger than Belgium or Tasmania must have been ripped apart by 120 km of extension along a low-angle crack, or detachment fault, to form the present-day ocean-floor depression.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 29 2016, @06:45AM
No prob. MDC can sail out to sea and toss some happy pills into the ocean. A happy Earth is a healthy Earth.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 29 2016, @06:48AM
Who cares now? She lost the elections.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 29 2016, @06:55AM
Hillary is a giant cunt?
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Tuesday November 29 2016, @08:37AM
Researchers Find Biggest Exposed Fault On Earth
is it the American electoral system? Hell yeah, I went there! Boom!
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 29 2016, @08:44AM
Let's have only unkempt pimply faced Linux nerds elect the president. We'll call it the oligarchy of the elite.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 29 2016, @11:10AM
technocracy
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday November 29 2016, @07:48PM
True Communism.
Don't trust private companies keeping secrets, and give all your work to benefit everyone else for free.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 29 2016, @09:11AM
Whoop de do. We're known where Microsoft is for years.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 29 2016, @09:14AM
Finland the birthplace of Linux is so great, Torvalds felt the need to relocate to America where the money is, because Linus is a greedy motherfucker.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 29 2016, @09:23AM
[Citation required]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 29 2016, @11:38PM
...Donald and there's no way on Earth I'm looking at his low-angle crack.