Massive, mysterious ‘hot blob’ beneath Eastern US is moving toward New York, puzzling scientists (Goo York City)

New York Post ^ | 8/4/2025 | Ben Cost

[C210N]

Is this the start of Goo York City?

UK scientists have discovered a massive “blob” of rock underneath the Appalachian mountains that’s slowly oozing its way toward New York City, per a slimy new study published in the journal Geology.

“This thermal upwelling has long been a puzzling feature of North American geology,” the study’s lead author, Tom Gernon, Professor of Earth Science at the University of Southampton, said in a statement.

Officially dubbed the Northern Appalachian Anomaly (NAA), this subterranean slimeball sits 125 feet deep underground and extends 220 miles across New England. The team reportedly discovered it using seismic tomography, a method akin to taking a giant CAT scan of the Earth.

[Buck-Toothed Knuckle Dragger]

Haven’t seen that proudly large denim-wallpapered sister in the many Sydney Sweeney ads for quite some time...

[one guy in new jersey]

Probs 125 miles deep

[doorgunner69]

NYC sewage?

Oh, right, they keep it withing the city for ambience.

[Sertorius]

[crusty old prospector]

“It came from below. The nether regions.”

[SunkenCiv]

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• Life is found in deepest layer of Earth's crust [11/19/2010]
• Breakthrough Achieved in Explaining Why Tectonic Plates Move the Way They Do [07/16/2010]
• Sea floor records ancient Earth [03/23/2007]
• Amazon River Once Flowed in Opposite Direction [10/24/2006]
• Ice Ages Blamed On Tilted Earth [04/30/2006]
• Textbook Case of Tectonic Movement is Wrong, Says New Study [08/22/2003]

[Peter ODonnell]

Definitely 125 miles, not feet, under the surface.

It’s probably Trump’s fault, I would imagine.

[Bullish]

Now how would they know it's going to go to NY city? It might be making it's way straight to Poughkeepsie.

[SMARTY]

Wasn’t there a town where deep coal deposits caught fire and couldn’t be contained?

I thought I read that and it’s in the area of PA. or VA. coal mining

[j_guru]

Perhaps it’s tar. Now if they can just get a few truckloads of feathers... sounds like the ingredients for Justice!

[DeplorableTrumpSupporter]

The blob is just Northeastern Liberals...nothing to see...

[13Sisters76]

20 kms per million years???!!!!
Oh no! Time to panic!

[omni-scientist]

I wonder, is it moving toward NYC or is NYC moving toward it?

[C210N]

In any case, it’ll probably cause NYC to flip over.

[PIF]

Excerpt:
researchers estimate that blob-zilla will reach NYC in 10 to 15 million years

[mewzilla]

Related...

Deep heat beneath the United States traced to ancient rift with Greenland New research links a hot rock zone under US mountain range the Appalachians to Greenland and North America's split some 80 million years ago

[oil_dude]

“Prepping for Aliens?
More climate change?”

Probably an 8.8 earthquake under Manhattan.

[Stepan12]

God is punishing the Big Apple because they are voting for an antisemitic Communist.

[dinodino]

125 feet? That can’t be correct…

[dangus]

Yes, miles