Chapter 599: The Danger of Dongying
In 1912, Wegener was inspired by the seamless fit of the silhouettes on both sides of the Atlantic. After a long period of research and the collection of geological specimens, the "Continental Drift Hypothesis" that shocked the geological community and the whole world was proposed!
After the continental drift hypothesis was proposed, it was strongly questioned. However, with the development of paleomagnetism, seismology, and aerospace observations in the fifties and sixties of the twentieth century, this hypothesis has gained a lot of empirical evidence. It became one of the greatest doctrines of the twentieth century!
It gave a new lease of life to the once-dormant theory of continental drift and laid the foundation for the development of plate tectonics. According to the theory of continental drift, all the continents on Earth were once unified huge land masses before the Mesozoic Era, called Pan-Continent or Union Paleocontinent, and the Mesozoic began to split and drift, gradually reaching their current position.
The dynamic mechanism of continental drift is related to the two components of the Earth's rotation – one is the tidal force that drifts westward, and the other is the depolar force that points to the equator. The lighter silicon-aluminium continental masses float above the heavier viscous silicon-magnesium layer, and due to the action of tidal forces and polarization forces, the pan-continent is broken and separated from the silicon-magnesium layer, and it drifts horizontally to the west and towards the equator on a large scale, and moves nearby.
According to the theory of continental drift, in 1968, the scientific community proposed the basic structure of six major plates and 12 small plates covering the earth. Since then, the theoretical details of the theory of plate tectonics have become more and more substantial.
According to the theory of plate tectonics and continental drift, due Dongying is located in the collision zone between the Pacific plate and the Eurasian plate! That is, it is located at the extinction boundary of the Eurasian plate and the Pacific plate, and is part of the western Pacific island arc-coast range-trench combination! According to Mayflower scholars, Dongying is the junction zone of the Pacific plate, the Asian plate, and the American plate
Therefore, 68 percent of the land area of Dongying is mountainous. The highest peak is Mt. Fuji Apple. It is up to 3,776 meters above sea level. One tenth of the earth's volcanoes are located in Dongying. More than 20 percent of earthquakes with a magnitude of 6 on the Richter scale in the world also occurred in Dongying. Along with it, there are countless large and small tsunamis.
Plate tectonic movements, very strong. Because of this tectonic plate movement, Dongying is only 200 kilometers away from the Mariana Trench, the deepest trench in the world. Today, the Mariana Trench is so deep that Mount Everest can be inverted.
According to observations in recent years, after the major earthquake in Southeast Asia, scientists have found that the Asia-Pacific plate is becoming more fragile, and earthquakes and tsunamis are becoming more active. A huge fissure has appeared on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that is 300 kilometers long and about 150 kilometers wide, and the island of Honshu in the east has moved eastward by about 2.4 meters, and is still moving northeast at a rate of 10 centimeters per year due to the push of the Asian continental plate and the retreat of the Atlantic plate.
It is because of such an address movement. Therefore, in 2011, a major earthquake of magnitude 9 or higher occurred in Dongying. The ensuing tsunami and aftershocks caused large-scale disasters and even nuclear power plants leaked. In this disaster, about 443 square kilometers of land in the northeast of Dongying were swallowed by the sea. The land area lost is about half of the size of Kyoto.
Then, in 2016, another earthquake measuring 9 on the Richter scale struck the northeastern part of Toei, triggering a huge tsunami. Fortunately, the epicenter of the earthquake was located in the sea. It did not cause as much damage as in 2011.
It is precisely because Dongying is in such a disaster-prone place that some of Dongying's cultures will become very distinctive. There is the ultimate beauty of material mourning, and there is also the extreme in forbearance. Since more than 100 years ago, the Dongying people have tried to expand the territory for future generations, and find a place where the land is fertile, rich in products, and less disaster.
So, go around trying to expand. Huaxia, which is closest to Dongying and has a lot of land and resources, has become the preferred target for its expansion. Therefore, there will be decades of catastrophe in China, and the Chinese people, in this catastrophe, there are tens of millions of dead and injured!
However, the Dongying people still did not succeed after all. Later generations of Dongying people are even more worried about their own situation, so science fiction works such as "The Sinking of Dongying" emerge in an endless stream, and they are widely concerned and popular in Dongying.
According to the author's conception in "The Sinking of Dongying", the Dongying Islands are folded islands produced during the subduction of the Pacific plate. As the Pacific Plate continues to subduct, the Pacific Plate drags the Dongying Block into the mantle as it subducts below the Eurasian Plate. As a result, Toei sank.
However, in general, when the silicon-magnesia oceanic plate and the silicon-aluminum continental plate meet and squeeze, the oceanic plate is always inserted under the continental plate and does not carry the continental block down. Therefore, it is unlikely that Dongying will sink as a whole. However, it is an indisputable fact that these folded islands, formed by the subduction and squeezing of the continental plates, are in fact extremely fragile.
Just as the butterfly theory says that in a dynamic system, a small change in the initial conditions can lead to a long-term huge chain reaction of the whole system! An occasional vibration of a butterfly's wings in the Amazon rainforest may cause a tornado in Texas two weeks later!
Between these six plates and the twelve small plates, it is also a dynamic and balanced system. Yun Lei collected the heaven and earth in the mustard stone space refined by the ancient ghost immortals, hollowed out the huge mustard stone from it, and released a huge earth vein out of thin air, the impact on this earth, of course, is not just thousands of miles of earth shaking, a small city collapse.
This leyline stretched out of thin air, making the tremor felt strongly for thousands of miles centered on the huge mustard stone. Even thousands of miles away, there was a slight tremor. And the changes in the leylines have been transmitted out, and from this and there, it has actually affected the folded islands produced during the subduction process of the Pacific plate, where Dongying is located!
If these islands were just islands, that's fine. However, no one knew that under the highest active volcano in the East of the East, the Fuji Apple Volcano, there was actually suppressing an existence that had cultivated to the heavens and the earth!
And the cultivation of this existence is far beyond the understanding of people in this world today!
Even the existence of Tian Bilin, whose cultivation has reached the pinnacle of cultivation in this world, has a Lingbao level of Treasure Armor, and under that glance, in the middle of the deduction, it has been hit hard!