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Almost on the whole coast of Ecuador there is a strange picture – the ocean recedes from the land, freeing it from the water by almost a hundred meters. This was especially pronounced, say, near the village of Santa Rosa Santa Elena Province, in Manabi, on the shores of Carquez Bay.
And therefore, after the New Year holidays on Social Networks there are reports of this anomaly with serious concerns about looming megatsunami, since something like that might occur before such natural disasters.
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True, scientists immediately tried to calm the coastal population equatorial settlements. So, employees Oceanographic Institute of Ecuador explained that in the early days January, our Earth was closest to the Sun (phenomenon perihelion), plus increased tides caused by special the location of the moon. All this led to such an amazing picture, which cannot be considered catastrophic, although the situation is clearly unusual …
However, the statement by the scientists didn’t reassure the inhabitants of Ecuador, who immediately remembered how the water disappeared from the beaches of Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, and the Bahamas last year facing a terrible hurricane “Irma”, at the same time on social networks began to discuss other natural disasters associated with the disappearance of water in many lakes and rivers of the world. In short, the inhabitants of the coastal equatorial villages live in expectation of the worst. And no one really knows why Suddenly the water left, but it was obviously not for nothing …
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