Posted on 07/22/2014 4:57:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The craters, believed to be formed by an underground explosion, are now filled with snow and ice. Reindeer herders in Russia's Far North have discovered yet another mysterious giant hole about 30 kilometers away from a similar one found days earlier.
Located in the permafrost of the subarctic Siberian region of Yamal, which means "end of the earth" in the local Nenets language, both craters appear to have been formed in recent years and have icy lakes at their bases.
Scientists who examined the first hole theorized that it could have been created when a mixture of water, salt and gas exploded underground, the Siberian Times news site reported.
The area, which has one of Russia's richest deposits of natural gas, was covered by sea about 10,000 years ago, and vast salt deposits were left behind.
"Global warming, causing an alarming melt in the ice under the soil, released gas causing an effect like the popping of a Champagne cork," the news report said, citing an expert at the Subarctic Scientific Research Center.
The first hole is estimated to be about 50 meters wide and 70 meters deep, with water from melting permafrost cascading down its sides into the icy deposit below.
The second hole is "exactly" like the first one, but "much smaller," local lawmaker Mikhail Lapsui told the Interfax-Ural news agency. "Inside the crater itself, snow can be seen."
PINGO!!
Earth zits.
No, that’s not how that would look.
“Does water explode? Not usually.”
Well,,,, Sassafras trees hold a lot of water. One in my backyard was struck by lightning. The water exploded into steam. Blew the tree up real good!
Maybe it is simpler than that. Now there may be two missing lone hunters not in regular contact with others.
Nice day hunting and trekking, nice flat camp spot,dry,with a... undetectable gas leak...now, for that evening fire...a match, or a magnesium and flint, a little cotton ball and boom, no more hunter and only a big hole to mark the spot. NO?
“Global Warming” - yeah lets tell the Americans its is global warming to nudge them into destroying their economy some more.
Pingo? Sounds like a dance you do before the watusi and after the mashed potato.
#17: DUNE on earth?
hydrates
graboids
They’re coming out. Be prepared for super carrots! Just heard a radio broadcast the following......
Ned Scott: And now before giving you the details of the battle, I bring you a warning: Everyone of you listening to my voice, tell the world, tell this to everybody wherever they are. Watch the ground. Everywhere. Keep looking. Keep watching the ground.
LOL!
;D
what about swamp gas?
erf pharts, then.
I still say it is the Underminer, that's my story and I'm sticking to it!
I thought the holes were Hama popping up their heads for a wayward location fix.
What worries scientists is that when the permafrost melts, vast amounts of CO2 are released, and if CO2 causes global warming then you have a self perpetuating temperature rise phenomenon. I hope they are wrong.
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