The earth is composed of different plates, and the slow movement between the plates is not felt by ordinary humans, but if the plates collide greatly, it means disaster.
Plate drift
Through the continuous exploitation and utilization of natural resources and continuous innovation, human beings have the current development scene. What humans did not expect, however, was that access to natural resources came at a cost. Slowly, various natural disasters began to appear continuously, and their appearance seemed to be the earth's misuse of resources and the wanton destruction of the environment.
environmental pollution
One evening in Kenya, Africa, when the locals were preparing lunch and dinner in their houses, they suddenly heard a loud "boom" sound, and when they went out, a crack appeared in the earth, and some houses and roads were divided into two halves along the crack. Such a scene makes the locals very frightened, feeling that they may be sucked into the crack in the next second.
The Mysterious Rift in Africa
This crack appeared very strangely, and it cracked without any prior perception. People who have escaped death look at this crack and can't help but feel a deep sense of fear. Locals also informed the experts overnight, and the experts found that the widest part of the crack reached about 15 meters, which is also a very rare phenomenon by surveying the crack. If this crack is not filled in time, it will slowly expand over time, and it may eventually lead to the point of not being able to end.
Cracks that appear in Kenya
The appearance of mysterious cracks is also accompanied by the harassment of volcanoes and earthquakes, which geologists believe is caused by the strong movement between the earth's plates, which is a kind of natural disaster. The emergence of cracks not only brought serious economic losses to the locals, but also caused psychological trauma. The local public roads have been severely damaged, and even the houses near the cracks have become dangerous houses, and some of the houses have cracked inside and can no longer withstand further damage. Therefore, the locals did not dare to continue to live around here, and chose to relocate and move away to a safe place. But there are still a small number of people who do not have the ability to relocate, and only have to guard these dangerous houses to spend the rest of their time.
The ground cracked
The cracks also destroyed the surrounding crop fields, making it impossible for locals to harvest and sow grain, and without the success of the harvest, there would be economic difficulties, and there would be hidden security risks as long as the cracks persisted.
What are the causes of crack formation?
How did this crack come about? After the survey, geologists have different opinions, some people think that it is caused by the earth's plate, and some people think that it is caused by human factors. The Earth is made of plates of different sizes, and in this sudden change, it has been discovered that this is the earth's movement due to the separation of the Somali plate. Previously, the Somali Plate has been connected with the Nubian Plate and has always maintained a picture of friendly coexistence.
Plate separation
There will be movement between the plates, but the movement is slow and will not be so easy to detect. It takes hundreds, tens of millions of years to complete a displacement between the plates, and each displacement lasts a long time. Through scientific identification technology, it was found that in fact, the movement speed of the Somali plate is 2.5 centimeters per second, maintaining an average speed and moving forward steadily. The Somali Plate is getting farther and farther away from the Nubian Plate, gradually forming a gap that cannot be crossed.
Earthquakes formed by plate movement
The cracks formed by the movement of the plates will also bring some derivative disasters, and every time the cracks increase in width, they will be accompanied by earthquakes, and earthquakes will become appendages to the cracks. Geologists believe that if this rate continues, perhaps in a million years, the African continent will be split in two, forming a new continent. Of course, there are still some doubts, some people think that it is impossible to produce a crack in the movement of the earth's crust alone, and it will take millions of times to fully form a crack. In this way, people can predict the time of the crack that appears according to the prediction, but in fact the crack appears unexpectedly.
The Great Rift Valley of East Africa
Some people deny that the cracks are caused by crustal movements, and then suggest that they may be caused by human factors. Excessive use of groundwater resources is an important incentive. Africa is extremely short of water sources, and even the water that is usually drunk is mixed with sediment, which is even more difficult in agricultural irrigation, and only by taking the way of underground water to solve the problem of water sources. A large number of water sources are pumped, so that the underground water sources are in short supply, and a state of withering is gradually formed, and the drying of the water sources leads to the rupture of the surface.
Hazards of excessive groundwater extraction
The emergence of cracks reminds us that we should protect groundwater resources and stop at a time when there is a long-term development. Otherwise, cracks will not only appear in Africa, but also on the dry ground of the earth.
A similar scene exists in the world
The world is big, and there are many more about these strange scenes, most of which are caused by the wanton actions of human beings. As the satellite passed over the Atlantic Ocean, it found a mysterious vortex, which was very large and had a blue luminous body. Why is this vortex peculiar? It was because the vortex was shrouded in blue light, as mysterious as any door that appeared out of thin air.
Blue swirl image
This blue vortex is located near the coast of South Africa and is formed due to changes in the movement of the seafloor. So what is the reason for this glowing vortex? Scientists speculate that when the vortex was formed, due to the gravitational action of absorbing the blue glowing microorganisms in the ocean, a large number of microorganisms gathered together to have such a spectacle. The ocean has its own mysterious color for humans, so it is expected that such a scene will appear.
Blue glowing microorganisms aggregate
The mysterious means of the ocean are not limited to whirlpools. When the satellite photographed the Indian Ocean, it also found that there was light at the bottom of the ocean, and it was a kind of large-scale light, which was enough to illuminate the appearance of the seabed, and such a scale could not be completed by manpower alone. Because it is impossible for people to dive into the seabed, it takes a lot of energy to illuminate the seabed just to take a picture. Finally, the scientists explained that it was caused by the luminous organism dinoflagellates on the seafloor.
Dinoflagellates
Nature is changing everywhere, but there are many strange sights that cannot be fully explained by scientific methods.
summary
Nature's peculiar landscapes are all gifts of nature. However, the changes on the earth are now out of control, and only the protection of nature can delay the arrival of disaster. The cracks in Africa are a warning from nature to cherish and protect natural resources.