BLOGGING via TYPEWRITER.

A SCAR IS BORN   Two pictures, captured by NASA’s Earth Observing-1 satellite, show an area of the Red Sea off of Yemen on October 24, 2007 (bottom) and during a volcanic eruption on December 23, 2011 (top) — the latter activity forming what appears to be a small island.  This region is part of the Red Sea Rift, where the African and Arabian tectonic plates pull apart and new ocean crust regularly forms.(Photo: NASA via the Telegraph)