Thursday, July 9, 2009

Alaska - Land of the Midnight Mystery

Spontaneous Uplift


Just to remind us that we don't know everything about this planet, a 1,000 foot section of beach near Homer, Alaska suddenly and mysteriously rose the height of a two story building, which is about 20 feet. 

It happened overnight a few days ago. 

Scientists are still figuring this one out, but so far they have been ruling out earthquake activity as the cause; instead, the main theory at the moment has to do with a 12,000 year old landslide.

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