Washington DC: U.S. researcher says the tsunami produced by an earthquake measuring 8.8 magnitude on March 11 last in Japan has broken pieces of the iceberg in Antarctica about 13,000 kilometers. Similarly, the reported page NHK on Wednesday (10 / 8).
U.S. space agency (Nasa) said the results of the study is the first observation of a tsunami can cause the breakdown of the Antarctic ice. NASA said they watched keretakannya of the Sulzberger Ice Shelf in an image taken from the two satellites right after the big earthquake.
The images from the March 16, it also shows an area of 125 square kilometers of new icebergs floating in the sea. According to NASA, the tsunami wave that reached the Antarctic just as high as 30 centimeters, but the wave is likely to succeed on the ice shelves because the waves are generated repeatedly. The scientists also say these findings underscore the amount of power as well as the tsunami in northeastern Japan.
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2011-08-11T01:22:00+07:00
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