This is what gets me about the “Baffling” meme in headline writing. Inevitably, the story reveals that, no, its a nifty, curious, uncommon thing, but rarely baffling.

Here’s the headline in question:

Experts baffled by quake-formed island

As you can imagine, the story is about a new island formed off the coast of Pakistan by a recent, massive earthquake in the region. The article embeds this nifty video from the Telegraph:

It takes about five paragraphs before the article contradicts the headline:

Such islands are not entirely unusual to scientists who study the earth and its sometimes violent movements.

Marco Bohnhoff, a professor of seismology at the German Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam said there are two ways such islands can be created.

So…essentially, its prolly a mud volcano:

It RISES!
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