Gulf of Aden, What Happened in November?
December 16, 2010, Submitted by: Ken TweetAn unusual earthquake event occurred off the coast of Yemen, underneath the Gulf of Aden during the month of November. The initial earthquake swarm rapidly ramped up during 14-Nov, while subsequent earthquakes rumbled on, even as late as 11-Dec.
The swarm event seemed unusual in that the majority of the earthquake depths during the first day were pin-pointed at 10 km, some of them 10.1 km below the seafloor of the Gulf of Aden. The earthquakes that followed did not vary too far from this depth. The account of that event with maps and graphs can be viewed here, Major Earthquake Swarm off Yemen.
Initial explanations regarding the consistent 10 km depth included the notion that the USGS data will default to 10 km, “if they are not sure”. I find difficulty in subscribing to that theory because of the very accurate capabilities that exist in seismology today with accurate seismograph instruments scattered all around the world, which are triangulated and cross-checked with computer precision. All earthquake depths are resolved to the one-tenth kilometer, and displayed as such.
Some thought that perhaps magma was moving along channels, perhaps building up stress with threat of an undersea eruption. There certainly are numerous known volcanoes very close by within the region, mainly to the west.
Other explanations included the idea that HAARP somehow played a roll, affecting the Gulf of Aden all the way from Gakona, Alaska with its 33 acre antenna array and 3.6 million watt transmitting station which experiments with upper atmosphere and ionospheric propagation in HF (high frequency), ELF (extremely low frequency), and VLF (very low frequency) bands.
Other explanations from a few received E-mail messages suggested that a secret StarGate was opening, used by aliens, which the US government (base of operations in Djibouti at the Gulf of Aden) and other governments of the world were trying or using themselves to harness the mystical power, or communicate with other beings.
Or, it could be tectonic plate stress fractures along the divergent plate boundary that runs right up the middle of the Gulf of Aden.
We have put together an animated map showing the sequence of events as they occurred beginning 14-Nov-2010. It’s interesting to look for patterns.
Update, 31-Dec-2010, more earthquakes have popped today, apparently bringing the region back to life… (we will see what happens). Link to the original post for updated maps and stats, Major Earthquake Swarm off Yemen
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Star gate ??!!
Are you seriously putting that across as a possible explanation?
Wow I really hope that one was tongue in cheek!
@Lilly
LOL, yes indeed, tongue-in-cheek
LOL!! Good one!! : – )
Tongue in cheek, sure – but it was based on a surprisingly common conspiracy theory wasn’t it. It seems that there are a significant number of people who believe that some government or aliens or inter-dimension interlopers have decided to “hide” a teleportation device or wormhole gate somewhere in one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes. I hope that the Somali pirates don’t steal it.
On a more serious side, there is a large area called the Afar depression in that region cut off from the Red Sea by mountains. Caused by those same divergent plates that are causing the volcanoes and earthquakes, it is below sealevel and has flooded in the past when sea levels rose enough to get past the mountains.
Now I understand that this intensely hot area has one lake that stays there even as the water evaporates because of salty ground water intrusion which is coming from the Indian Ocean. If these swarms of earthquakes caused enough new fractures to increase the flow of water, it might come to a point where the inflow of water is greater than evaporation can remove it – at least that is something I would speculate as being possible. The entire Afar depression would start to fill up.
As it fills, the climate effects that keep it a hellish oven of a land would be mitigated and evaporation would slow. The river which runs into the depression only to dry up before it can collect would survive longer. Local rains would start to support plants which would further cool the location.
As the water builds up it will add weight to that part of the landscape which might further increase the earthquake and volcano eruption frequency.
There were even ideas that humans should use tunnels to breach the mountains and flood the area with sea water on purpose but environmental, political and economical concerns have dissuaded the idea – also there would be a loss of paleontological sites and one of the few sites where ocean formation can be studied above land. But if nature decided to start the process it might not be up to us. Scientists see the depression filling in millions of years due to mountain erosion but quakes in the area in recent times have shown that massive cracks can form there in short order and that is only at the surface where we can see. Who knows what might be happening between the sea and the sweltering Afar Depression beneath those mountains?
@ Allo Allo, I had come across an article about this during the time of the Yemen swarm, and your observation matches up with what was said. Very interesting theory. It would be an amazing thing to witness, to actually see the area filling with ocean water!
Okay before you throw out the stargate idea, do you think it’s abit weird that over 40 countries have sent their battleships to the Gulf of Aden to combat a group of pirates? I have seen videos of a stargate device on the seabed at Aden and also 50 or 60 battleships all facing one direction – towards a portal. It’s all on google earth so there’s no hiding it. For all those who don’t know there are many portals all over the planet activating for 2012, and they weren’t put there by us or NASA or the CIA. The beings coming through them are peaceful loving beings, no other beings would be allowed through.