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2014-07-27 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Giant Crater in Russia's Far North Sparks Mystery

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Posted by Fred 2014-07-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Yet another TESLA experiment gone awry? Tunguska redux?

Posted by borgboy 2014-07-27 03:18|| 2014-07-27 03:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Slaver disintegrator?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-07-27 03:22|| 2014-07-27 03:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Proof that the earth farts.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-07-27 09:28|| 2014-07-27 09:28|| Front Page Top

#4 the other end is in Gazoo

Posted by Frank G 2014-07-27 10:48|| 2014-07-27 10:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Nah Frank, not enough polution.

Posted by AlanC 2014-07-27 11:14|| 2014-07-27 11:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Global warming.

Posted by Glenmore 2014-07-27 11:22|| 2014-07-27 11:22|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-07-27 11:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Some Paleo tunnel diggers took a wrong turn at Ashdod?

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-07-27 13:22|| 2014-07-27 13:22|| Front Page Top

#9 Art Bell open lines: "It's an UFO base."

Posted by mossomo 2014-07-27 15:41|| 2014-07-27 15:41|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-07-27 16:52|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-07-27 16:54|| Front Page Top

#12 Itsa pingo whose ice core melted.

Posted by Otto Slerese5315 2014-07-27 17:13|| 2014-07-27 17:13|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-07-27 18:53|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-07-27 20:33|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-07-27 22:01|| Front Page Top

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