After 4 Years, The Cause of this Incredible Sand Geyser is Still a Mystery (Video)

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[OneVike]

The video you are about to watch, was filmed by a driver who stopped along the freeway with many others just outside Al-Ajsae City, in Saudi Arabia. What you are about to see has been called many things, including a "Sand Geyser", "Sand Fountain", or a "Sand Volcano".  The quality is not the best, because it was filmed with a cell phone. but it's good enough to let you know that something very powerful is underfoot in the desert. 
  
I've had this video in my archive of articles to be written for almost a year now, and I have finally decided to post it.  What took me so long to actually present it was the limited information about what exactly happened to create such a spectacular phenomenon. It happened back in 2006, and from what I have found from reading over 30 different articles from news sources and blogs is that no one knows for sure exactly what caused the phenomenon.
  
There is one thing I have constantly run into as I looked into the reporting about this event.  It seems that the Saudi Arabian government had their scientists, and the government controlled Aramco Geological Team investigate it because of the enormous size of the geyser.  However, after extensive research they are refusing to release their finding to the public. This actually fits right in line with the way the royal Family likes to keep their subjects in the dark on scientific matters. The less they know, the easier it is to control them by using religious explanations for unexplained miracles.  
   
There are plenty of speculative ideas, but as of yet nothing has been agreed upon even by the experts outside of Saudi Arabia. Below the video I have listed the many different explanations that have been suggested.

Follow the link below to watch the video and add your theory of what caused the
Mysterious Sand Geyser That Has Yet to be Explained

[OneVike]

Any expert geologists out there that can shed some light on a mystery that has gone unsolved for over 4 years? If anyone has any theories that could help explain the phenomenon, then please share them with me and I will add them to my list.

[JRios1968]

It’s Bush’s fault, of course

[IrishCatholic]

I saw the movie. Never, ever disturb the mummies tomb.

[himno hero]

Strikes me as simple. Sample and test the air for gases and air born particulates.....but wait, they dont have the technology for that!

[OneVike]

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This is a rare phenomenon that has been filmed only this once. After 4 years, this unsolved mystery that some call either a "Sand Geyser", "Sand Fountain", or a "Sand Volcano" has yet to be solved. It is quite interesting to see, and to offer your theory as to what caused it......

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[Gaffer]

Strike a match near it and see what happens....probably sand driven by a natural gas vent.

[OldNavyVet]

Just as in a water fountain, the sand is being recycled ...

Please note that the sand isn’t building up.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

We need to consult ALGORE!

[OneVike]

Yes, I noticed and many have pointed that fact out through the years. However, it still does not explain it because the experts have no agreed that it is water of even liquid.

[listenhillary]

Off to watch the video.

[himno hero]

Probably a mummie fart. Maybe just bad gas.

Throw a match to it, light her up!

[Michael.SF.]

Kind of looks like ET’s head there at the top of the sand plume.

[OneVike]

Funny, I actually though along the same line. However, I still lean towards the making of the Mummy movies, and the evil Pharaoh is coming for the Royal Family....

[Farmer Dean]

These sand geysers occurred during the New Madrid earthquakes.

[Bean Counter]

Spice blow. Any sand trout about afterwards...??

[OneVike]

When was that, because one of the theories is that it was a phenomenon called a "Sand blow". or "Sand Volcano".

This is something that occurs (usually after an earthquake) when an Intense seismic shaking causes the sediments that are loose to change from a solid to liquid (not literally), due to the the pressure of the seismic shaking. This opens up gaps between the clay. A fracture occurs through the loose sediment that causes an upward flow of sand to fly out of the ground that looks like a geyser.

However, there were no earthquakes nor tremors anywhere near the region before this occurred.

[OneVike]

New one on me... LOL :>)

[Robert A Cook PE]

How long (how many days) did it blow?

[353FMG]

In order for the sand to be expelled it needs a gaseous driver. Saudi practices CO2 gas reinjection in order to maintain reservoir integrity. Analyze the driver gas and I would not be surprised that it is mere CO2. Probably just a gas leak from the formation.

[Malacoda]

Saudi Arabia is the @$$hole of the world, and Mother Earth has gas.