{"id":575539,"date":"2023-01-25T18:12:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T18:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=575539"},"modified":"2023-01-25T18:53:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T18:53:30","slug":"natural-behavior-why-a-london-sized-iceberg-breaking-off-of-antarctica-isn-t-concerning-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/natural-behavior-why-a-london-sized-iceberg-breaking-off-of-antarctica-isn-t-concerning-scientists","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Natural behavior&#8217;: Why a London-sized iceberg breaking off of Antarctica isn&#8217;t concerning scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An iceberg almost the size of Greater London has broken free from an ice shelf and is floating away from Antarctica. A crack known as Chasm-1, which has been &#8220;developing naturally&#8221; over the last few years across the Brunt Ice Shelf , extended northwards, severing the west part of the ice shelf on Sunday during a spring tide, the British Antarctic Survey said in a statement. Scientists say the impact of this new huge iceberg, around 600-square-miles&nbsp; in size and 490 feet&nbsp;thick, is unpredictable. The break off is the second major calving from this complex glaciological structure in the last two years.&nbsp;In February 2021, another giant iceberg, around 490-square-miles, broke off from the northern section of Brunt. The left image was taken on the January 20, 2023, and the right on January 24, 2023 European Space Agency Scientists at British Antarctic Survey (BAS) who monitor&nbsp;the behavior of the ice shelf &#8212;&nbsp;the part of a land-based&nbsp;ice sheet that floats on the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An iceberg almost the size of Greater London has broken off from the Brunt Ice Shelf and is floating away from Antarctica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}