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| Giant Crater in Russia's Far North Sparks Mystery |
| 2014-07-27 |
| [An Nahar] A vast crater discovered in a remote region of Siberia known to locals as "the end of the world" is causing a sensation in Russia, with a group of scientists being sent to investigate. The giant hole in the remote energy-rich Yamalo-Nenetsky region first came to light in a video uploaded to YouTube that has since been viewed more than seven million times. "The crater is enormous in size -- you could fly down into it in several Mi-8s (helicopters) without being afraid of hitting anything," the person who posted the video, named only as Bulka, wrote. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #15 Didn't know what a 'pingo' was (and I occasionally follow WUWT). Now I do Did some more reading on them. Interesting stuff. Thanks, Rantburg U!! |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2014-07-27 22:01 |
| #14 D *** NG IT, there was supposed to be an Earth-shattering "Kaboom"! We will hug it + love it + call the Crater "George". |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-07-27 20:33 |
| #13 Otto is right. We discussed this on WUWT a few days ago. "Pingos" are mounds where the underlying ice in the permafrost freezed in winter, and melts (some) in summer. The pingo builds up enough that the ice lens pushes the soil up around it, then melts, causing the dirt on top to collapse into the hole. There are tens of thousands of these all over the Arctic, from Scandinavia to eastern Canada. Some are much smaller, some in the Alaska northwest are twice this size, and elongated. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2014-07-27 18:53 |
| #12 Itsa pingo whose ice core melted. |
| Posted by: Otto Slerese5315 2014-07-27 17:13 |
| #11 If it wasn't for the mounds of earth on the rim I'd say it looks like a sink hole. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2014-07-27 16:54 |
| #10 No 'dig marks' or 'heat signatures' on the slope below the surface. Surface 'Domes' up. Dome 'Pops'. Most of previously domed surface falls into cavern below. Does leave some excess soil around the edges. Ground there is usually frozen so could possibly contain underground pressure (from whatever) for some time. Perhaps enough that the pressure built up to a level creating this interesting anomaly. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2014-07-27 16:52 |
| #9 Art Bell open lines: "It's an UFO base." |
| Posted by: mossomo 2014-07-27 15:41 |
| #8 Some Paleo tunnel diggers took a wrong turn at Ashdod? |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2014-07-27 13:22 |
| #7 oldspook will know what it is looks to me like a missile blasted out or it was dug there is freshly mounded earth around the lip of the second one making it look like it was either dug or gas blasted out, or a bomb crater |
| Posted by: anon1 2014-07-27 11:22 |
| #6 Global warming. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2014-07-27 11:22 |
| #5 Nah Frank, not enough polution. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-07-27 11:14 |
| #4 the other end is in Gazoo |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-07-27 10:48 |
| #3 Proof that the earth farts. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-07-27 09:28 |
| #2 Slaver disintegrator? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-07-27 03:22 |
| #1 Yet another TESLA experiment gone awry? Tunguska redux? |
| Posted by: borgboy 2014-07-27 03:18 |