Arabian Sea

The Arabian Sea (Arabic بحر العرب, DMG Bahr al 'Arab, Persian دریای عرب, Urdu بحیرہ عرب, Hindi: अरब सागर ) is a marginal sea of the Indian Ocean between the Arabian Peninsula and India. In the northwest it borders on the Gulf of Oman, which is in turn connected to the Persian Gulf. In the southwest, the Gulf of Aden connects the Arabian Sea with the Red Sea. In the southeast of the Arabian Sea borders the Lakkadivensee. Most oceanographers consider the Lakshadweep as part of the Arabian Sea. Further east borders this, or the Arabian Sea in a broad sense to the Bay of Bengal.

Countries with coastlines on the Arabian Sea, the Maldives, India, Pakistan, Oman, Yemen and Somalia.

Towns on the coast are among other Mumbai ( Bombay ) and Karachi.

The Indus is the most important power to the Arabian Sea. Other rivers Narmada and Tapti are, both of which flow into the Gulf of Khambhat.

Mud volcanoes - ephemeral islands

The formation of a new island - 76 mx 30 m and 900 m tall and 18 m high - shallow in 6-7 m sea off the port city of Gwadar, Pakistan, 200 meters off the coast was from eyewitnesses in an earthquake of magnitude 7.7 on September 24, 2013 are observed. Scientists consider the structure for a rare mud volcano that arises with by rising methane bubbles concrete casts that have been found to be flammable. It is expected that the soft formations dissolves in waves.

Last similar islands were formed in the sea after the earthquake of 1999 and 2000 - but in a different part of the coast almost 300 km east of Gwadar. According to authorities, it is then also came about 60 years ago at the same place before Gwadar before the emergence of a new island 600 meters off the coast, but this is gone.

Name

Other names for the Arabian Sea were "Green Sea ", " Sea of Oman " or " Persian Sea", they are no longer in use today.