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An Enormous Crater Randomly Appeared in Remote Siberia and the World Is Freaking Out
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| July 17, 2014
| Timothy McGrath
Posted on 07/17/2014 3:21:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
It's gotta be either a UFO or a giant worm, right?
It's hard to tell from this perspective ya know, while on the internet but that's a freakin' gigantic hole in the ground.
It's about 260 feet wide, nobody knows how deep, and it seems to have appeared out of nowhere in a remote corner of northern Siberia called Yamal, which means, appropriately, "the end of the world."
There are plenty of theories already. Could be a UFO crash site, some say. Others, a meteorite.
A researcher with the Sub-Arctic Scientific Research Centre thinks it might have been caused by a release of subterranean gas trapped for 10,000 years or so. The gas, according to the theory, had been trapped since the area was a sea, and as climate change melted the permafrost, that pressurized gas might have forced its way out of the ground like a corked champagne bottle.
Incidentally, the Yamal Peninsula is one of Russia's richest regions for the production of oil and gas, and the hole appeared 19 miles from Bovanenkovo, a major gas field. So it could have something to do with that...
Thankfully, scientists are ON IT. Experts from the Centre for the Study of the Arctic and from the Cryosphere Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences are on an expedition as we speak.
Check out this video of the mysterious crater, shot from a helicopter.
TOPICS: Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: crater; russia; serbia
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To: HangnJudge
There needs to be something of known size in the images to gauge the true size. This could almost be a fairly large gopher hole.
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posted on
07/17/2014 3:54:09 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
To: nickcarraway
Gophers.....really big gophers.
42
posted on
07/17/2014 3:54:56 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: nickcarraway
43
posted on
07/17/2014 3:56:06 PM PDT
by
gura
(If Allah is so great, why does he need fat sexually confused fanboys to do his dirty work? -iowahawk)
To: HangnJudge
Maybe something real big is hungry...
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posted on
07/17/2014 3:56:27 PM PDT
by
eldoradude
(How many republicrats/demoblicans does it take to change a light bulb?)
To: minnesota_bound
I was thinking crab people...
To: nickcarraway
Promotion for the new season of NBC's fake reality mockumentary, Siberia?
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posted on
07/17/2014 3:59:40 PM PDT
by
x
To: nickcarraway
whatever the cause (”man made” in some way I suspect) there is way too much regularity and symmetry to the hole and it’s border - to my mind - for a comet or such to be the cause
who knows
it might be an an unnamed Russian bomb test crater and the U.S. is saying nothing about it for its own security reasons
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posted on
07/17/2014 3:59:41 PM PDT
by
Wuli
To: The Cajun
"The striations coming from the bottom running over the sides and onto the surface all in a line seem really weird."
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posted on
07/17/2014 4:02:56 PM PDT
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
To: JimSEA
Yeah, that was my guess too, given the area. Most people don’t realize how weird geology can get...
To: HangnJudge
That little scar on the earth they're calling a "crater" doesn't even begin to compare to the massive black hole of finance and morality we have in the US---
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posted on
07/17/2014 4:05:45 PM PDT
by
Baynative
(How much longer will the media be able to prop up this administration?)
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra; apoxonu
Actually, Maars were featured on
Geology News found on geology.com or through the Geology News link. It either links to or presents a lot of stuff.
51
posted on
07/17/2014 4:12:58 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: NonValueAdded
An obscure reference, dear Henry.
Betcha 9 out of 10 FReepers didn't get it.
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posted on
07/17/2014 4:16:57 PM PDT
by
FroggyTheGremlim
("It is not the color of his skin, ... it is the blackness that fills his soul")
To: nickcarraway
That’s where Hillary broke through the Earth’s crust on her ascent from Hell.
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posted on
07/17/2014 4:32:39 PM PDT
by
AndrewB
(FUBO)
To: LaRueLaDue
I started feeding my interest in geology through basic textbooks, USGS and Arizona Bureau Mines publication. The internet has been a godsend to me along with You Tube. Wikipedia and blogs are generally good.
Geology News is particularly good on news of the present state of the discipline. you can audit whole courses on You Tube though I have to be careful as to who is posting and why. It's a great hobby and, as you say, it can get weird. Structural geology has my interest just now. Difficult for me, a slow witted old man. However, it answers "how" questions I've had since reading about and working in Arizona's Superior (Magma) district.
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posted on
07/17/2014 4:39:32 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: nickcarraway
If I wanted to see a big ass hole, I’d tune in to a presidential press conference.
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posted on
07/17/2014 4:47:11 PM PDT
by
Rastus
To: nickcarraway
A piece of Obama’s ego got loose.
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posted on
07/17/2014 4:55:21 PM PDT
by
kaehurowing
(FIGHT BULLYING, UNINSTALL FIREFOX)
To: nickcarraway
Hortas!
Mostly harmless almost friendly. Just don't mess with the eggs or things will get ugly!
57
posted on
07/17/2014 4:58:11 PM PDT
by
sjmjax
(Politicans are much like bananas. They start off green, turn yellow then rot.)
To: eCSMaster
Was it that old song......something like
There’s a hole in my pocket, dear Liza, dear Liza....?
I remember it had several verses.
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posted on
07/17/2014 5:02:04 PM PDT
by
weeder
To: nickcarraway
I know! I know! Globull warming.
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posted on
07/17/2014 5:07:11 PM PDT
by
tiki
To: nickcarraway
Looks like the photos my Gastroenterologist gave me yesterday from my Colonoscopy.
Bet you didn’t see that coming, did you?
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