Islands that appear suddenly was created from an eruption that occurred in the Red Sea earlier this month. Formed from volcanic material eruption. So it could be the island will not last long.
According to reports, fishermen witnessed bursts of lava as high as 30 meters on December 19, 2011. According to volcanologists from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, Erik Klemetti, was estimated as the day when the eruption began.
Abu seem to radiate from that location on 20 and December 22, 2011, who observed from the instrument's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) mounted on the Terra and Aqua satellites owned by the U.S. space agency, NASA.
Meanwhile, instruments monitor ozone from NASA's Aura satellite detected elevated levels of sulfur dioxide, which is one evidence of the eruption. Then, on December 23, 2011, what looks like a new island seen in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen.
"I was surprised, the island was growing rapidly," said Klemetti, to science sites Our Amazing Planet.
Volcanic activity occurred along the Zubair Group, a collection of small islands that stretches along the northwest and southeast. The new island is formed of a shield, a kind of mountain that is formed from molten lava, and emerged onto the surface of the sea.
Scientists are now watching the island, to see the extent of its durability.
"Many such islands did not last long, because they are formed from volcanic material. So, they can be destroyed by big waves," said Klemetti.
This is not the only new island is formed, another island of tita-off comes up is Surtsey, Iceland, in the caldera of Mount Anak Krakatoa Krakatoa, and Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha `apai in Tonga in the South Pacific.
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