Up to that point the Cork's action was to slow down the SW detachment and prevent the iceberg from bursting. It has never blocked the movements of the iceberg, this side has always moved faster than the other side and the rest of the ice platform upstream (already in November I had given the very important speed differential and it is this differential that explains the widening of the rift R2 at first and the rift R2 and R3 then).
As seen during the exchanges with Crandle (posts 1478 and 1479) from now on there is no more compression, even residual, during the movement of the iceberg and the Cork, the tangential movement of the Cork and the movement of the iceberg being parallel.
Under these conditions there is no more action of the Cork and the two joints: with the iceberg and with the SWT-SIS, will not be able, in any way, to resist the efforts of distensions (distance of two sides) which were to be created.
In conclusion, the Cork currently limits itself to accompany the movement of the iceberg and this until there is no stress on the joints. Moreover, the compressive forces having disappeared, one can expect at any time a beginning of bursting of the iceberg on the SW side, or even the complete bursting. Of course this could happen today, tomorrow, in a week, ...
On the NE side, the extension of the R0 fracture and the fracture between R1 and R0 it does not seem to me to be making much progress. Moreover there is still more than 2km to go for R0 before reaching the thinner and more fragile zone (there is also more than 2km to eventually connect to the existing fracture at N if there is a change of direction of the extension towards NW).
On this side we can be sure that there will be detachment, but I avoid making prognoses, it could be in the next few days, but also take weeks...
