Underwater Plate Collapses, Australia Threatened Tsunami

                            

CANBERRA, KOMPAS.com - The Australian marine scientists warned that a large plate on the seabed close to the Great Barrier Reef in the early stages of collapse. The collapse of the plates is feared could trigger a tsunami.

The marine geologist from James Cook University, Queensland, Australia, using three-dimensional mapping system in the inner Great Barrier Reef since 2007 and found a lot of the valley bottom of the sea.

terakhit In field research, the scientists found one cubic kilometer slab of ocean floor the rest of the sea erosion in the past. Avalanche plates causes continental drift.

"Landslide seabed geology is understood as a process, but we do not know the situation that ever occurred in the Barrier Reef," said geologist, Robin Beaman.

"The plate is located on a valley bottom of the sea, cutting the slope, and the plates it was in the early stages of collapse," said Beaman.

He said experts so far This can not guess the collapse of the ocean when it will happen.

"Slowly plate was indeed collapse even in the present situation the plates were still in stable condition," said Beaman.

"Obviously it would collapse the plates and the plates will fall as deep as one mile to the nearest basin," said Beaman.

"This collapse will trigger a local tsunami that would hit the coast Queensland which is about 40 miles away from the location of the slab, "he said.

" We did not mean to make people nervous, we just want to know the plate was still there and what will happen if the plates it collapsed, "Beaman said.

The findings published in the journal Natural Hazard the imuwan written as they were in the Southern Surveyor research vessel.