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More Giant Craters Appear In Siberia, Scientists Nervous To Investigate
In the middle of last summer came news of a bizarre occurrence no one could explain. Seemingly out of nowhere, a massive crater appeared in one of the planet's most inhospitable lands. Early estimates said the crater, nestled in a land called "the ends of the Earth" where temperatures can sink far below zero, yawned nearly 30 metres in diameter.
One of the craters in Siberia's so-called "ends of the earth"
The saga deepened. The Siberian crater wasn't alone. There were two more, ratcheting up the tension in a drama that hit its climax as a probable explanation surfaced. Climate change had thawed the permafrost, which had caused methane trapped inside the icy ground to explode. "Gas pressure increased until it was high enough to push away the overlaying layers in a powerful injection, forming the crater," one German scientist said at the time.
Video of the craters...
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Now, however, as The Sydney Morning herald reports, researchers fear there are more craters than anyone knew — and the repercussions could be huge...
Russian scientists have now spotted a total of seven craters, five of which are in the Yamal Peninsula. Two of those holes have since turned into lakes. And one giant crater is rimmed by a ring of at least 20 mini-craters, the Siberian Times reported. Dozens more Siberian craters are likely still out there, said Moscow scientist Vasily Bogoyavlensky of the Oil and Gas Research Institute, calling for an "urgent" investigation.
He fears that if temperatures continue to rise — and they were five degrees higher than average in 2012 and 2013 — more craters will emerge in an area awash in gas fields vital to the national economy. "It is important not to scare people, but to understand that it is a very serious problem and we must research this," he told the Siberian Times. "We must research this phenomenon urgently, to prevent possible disasters."
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These objects need to be studied, but it is rather dangerous for the researchers," Bogoyavlensky told the Siberian Times. "We know that there can occur a series of gas emissions over an extended period of time, but we do not know exactly when they might happen. ... It is very risky, because no one can guarantee there would not be new emissions."
Making matters worse, the gas is extremely flammable. One of the methane bursts has already caught fire. Nearby residents in a town called Antipayuta say they recently saw a bright flash in the distance. "Probably the gas ignited," Bogoyavlensky said. "This shows us that such [an] explosion could be rather dangerous and destructive. Years of experience has shown that gas emissions can cause serious damage to drilling rigs, oil and gas fields and offshore pipelines."
When the news first broke last year, social media users pointed to everything from a meteorite to a stray missile to aliens to the Bermuda Triangle as possible causes. But the most plausible explanation seemed to be the explosive release of melting methane hydrate—an ice-like material frozen in the Arctic ground—thanks to global warming. But, as National Geographic reports, other theories are coming to light...
Now, scientists are arguing that the methane theory is unlikely, based on new satellite surveys released by Russian researchers that found dozens of new craters in Siberia.
"The jury is still out" on the cause of Siberia's craters, says Carolyn Ruppel, chief of the U.S. Geological Survey's Gas Hydrates Project. But she and other scientists say the new satellite mapping suggests another explanation that has to do with the rapid melting of ice cores called pingos.
A pingo is a plug of ice that forms near the surface over time and has a small mound or hill on top.
When an ice plug melts rapidly—as many have been, thanks to unseasonably warm temperatures in Siberia over the past year—it can cause part of the ground to collapse, forming a crater. But that process alone isn't enough to explain the ejected rocks that have been found around the rim of the craters, which suggest some sort of explosion.
Instead, Ruppel theorizes that the craters were formed by a sudden release of natural gas that had been stored in the permafrost but was kept under pressure by the weight of the pingo.
This theory is bolstered by the Russian satellite data, which show pingos—they appear as small mounds—in the exact positions where the craters later formed.
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So in conclusion - "No one knows what is happening in these craters at the moment."
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Manmade global warming manmade climate change manmade climate disruption if I ever saw it!
Nahhh... looks like the giant worms from Dune thawing out is the winning theory so far..
Aliens making a comeback
maybe?
http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/jet-stream-manipulation-is-fueling-we...
That shit is for real, no quesiton. And it's gotta stop.
That's where Putin takes a shit.
CALM Down... it's Only The CIA Setting Up Shop...
What strikes me is the near perfect geometry of the hole. As there is no ejecta field of any note, this makes
impact or eruptions an unlikely cause.
My guess would be HAARP testing.
Perhaps they ( Soros, Bill Gates, Halliburton and the Red Haired Nephilim Agenda 21 crowd) have figured out a way to focus the beam footprint after bouncing it off the ionosphere. Perhaps *they* are just punching holes into the gas field in an attempt to empty it, thus weakening Putin and the oligarchs.
Far fetched, yes. But who would have believed in 2008 that we would have a President like Obama?
Vacant permafrost melt channels (after water runs off) and sinkhole areas file with methane gas from decomposing matter, while under a snow, ice, or dirt lid. Occasional rocks fall from the sides and lid due occasional gravity. Rock on rock violence leads to spark which detonates and blows off the lid.
Nah. Just working out the kinks in the earthquake weapon, that's all.
Underground water movement.
He said "Rimmed"
FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY IN KARST....that's what my experience as a spelunking fluvial geomorphologist tells me
Why poor Siberia?
Why not Washington D.C.?
God knows it’s a money sinkhole anyway.
Nobody has made reference to Al Gore and carbon-offsets to this massive release of methane?
They joke is RIGHT REAKING THERE FOR THE TAKING, GUYS.
I'm ashamed of all of you.
I was going to say, you've got to calibrate your (Russian) ELF weapons somewhere...
I think those used to be the vaults where the Fed was hiding the German gold. Damned Russkies figured it out, and now the Germans can't get their gold repatriated.
It's my theory...
Clearly we need a global tax to stop all these sink holes.
our beautiful earth farts or burps. unstable methane hydrates gasify when the pressure temperature raltionship changes.
http://worldoceanreview.com/en/wor-1/energy/methane-hydrates/
Do you like the syrup or the jelly?
Is Japan connected to siberia in any way?
If the scientists go in far enough, will they find the earth's rectum?
Damn near killed em
The earth's rectum is in DC.
And the sphincter is Langley.
Anyone hear why Langley was locked down last week?
Yeah....didn't think so.
spice?
ice?
Really?
smlbiz Thanks for the link. First time I've seen it in print. Arrived at the same conclusion a while ago.
Haven't read more than the title yet, will read. In the meantime, how do those affected by the wobbly jet stream get the California (maybe more of the West Coast) chemtrail spraying operation shut down?
It sure as all hell ain't methane explosions as some other vids sowing closer up views of the side, they're relatively smooth, almost as if bored. But definitely not an explosion.
And no, I'm not gonna listen to any horseshit about "global warming, change" or any of that crap. Last BS was that the deep oceans were storing heat. What kind of nonsense is that? Entropy and thermal dissipation run from heat to cool. So much total crap out there. Aliens are more likely that the 38% positive about warmest year ever crap.
Hell, best deal ever would be alines... Annanuki coming back for their gold.
Bid that price up, Mr Spaceman!
"So in conclusion - "No one knows what is happening in these craters at the moment."
So, we assume it's man-made global warming. (eye roll)
Yes.
"" Annanuki coming back for their gold.
Bid that price up, Mr Spaceman! ""
You May Be Right... Im Not Selling My GOLD At These Manipulated USD Shit Fiats Prices, Im
Holding Out For The "Interplanetary Space Credits" Money...
They're giving you a chance to buy....
""" Annanuki coming back for their gold.
Bid that price up, Mr Spaceman! """
Annanuki, hired by Apple Computer to find gold for their new Gold watches. Bid that price up, Mr Spaceman!
Or Not ... http://hydrogen-future.com/en/page-id-18.html#comments
I made almost identical observations. Vents, eruptions or even collapses never form nearly perfectly symmetrical shapes. Beside that, notice that this is still winter.
There is a bunch of stupidity and I do not mind early educated guesses but you have got to be honest in the "I don't know." department.
And the damned AGW crowd jumps on every single piece of news as "proof".
Imo, jet stream manipulation is on like donkey kong. One guy's polar vortex is another guys balmy, miami in march experience as the sine curve ripples around the Orb.
Gotta love all this psuedo-science religious bullshit.
Hey everybody, its geologist Knukles with the lowdown! LOL. Next he'll tell us the drought in California is because too many immigrants come over the border and take showers.
That's not true, they don't shower.
I am Chumbawamba.
Sorry, I couldn't resist. It's totally untrue, they do in fact shower. But they still smell weird.
I am Chumbawamba.
Frijoles aftershave.
Lots of methane production from their diet which is a greenhouse gas and might actually contribute disproportionately to AGW. AGW drives droubt according to the acolytes.
Geologists study rocks. Marine biologists worry about the fish. The drought in CA is due to lack of precipitation. Climatologists study precipitation. Sociologists study whether wetbacks take showers.
Hydrologist study precipitation. Climatologists make up BS for an agenda. And just like meteorologists, climatologist can't forecast crap.
LOL,
Hydrologists study how rainfall flows on or under the earth, not to be confused with hydraulics which specialize in pipe and chanel flow. This is a poorly researched FLUFF article.
Climatologists...the economists of the scientific community
Incorrect. The sociologists are the climatologists of the economics community.
Sorry guys, my bad.
I told the kids they could dig a hole to China.
And retired old financial farts comment on ZH, knukles. Glad you could string that one together with your supreme logic skills. Hey, did you leave your sprinkler running again? Looks like you're gonna have to ration some water in your "golden state", LOL.
Poor Knuckles has no idea what he's talking about on this issue...way out of his league when you get past the surface of science...not for the lay person.
I know for a fact. These craters are a result of Russia's secret work on their Turbo Encabulators when their unilateral phase detractors are out of sync:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLDgQg6bq7o
Loki, I grasp the Turbo Encabulator Effect, but isn't that a disc brake the guy's talking to?
See how clueless you are?
[i know u have a great sense of humor, too!]
I need a Turbo Encabulator...TODAY.
Theyz worth gazillions.
Knukles doesn't know the air is warmer than the ocean?
Come on in, the water's fine!
You obviously are unclear on the concept. There is no such thing as cold. There is only heat. What we perceive as cold is merely absence of heat.
If the surface of the ocean is warming (it is), that warming will be transmitted downward by convection and currents (it is). The heating of the oceans, along with acidification, is having disastrous effects, only the beginning of which are we experiencing so far.
It's all a simple imbalance of energy. There is more energy entering the earth's atmosphere, land and waters than is leaving. Ergo, the surplus energy is manifest as heat. Like it or not, that's the balance.
Convection is useless at transporting heat downwards.
I remember doing an experiment at school - lead wire around a piece of ice to sink it in a test tube - applied bunsen burner to the water at the top until it boiled. The ice was fine until conduction did the job.
Here's a thought...
The earth's temperature before the industrila revolution was reasonably stable - Maunder Minimum was a bit of an outlier, but that's about all. So then humans start lighting fires all over the place burning stored energy from the past....
Hmm, I wonder what might happen.
The effects of applying heat to a system are not always obvious - see second paragraph.
Or:
http://www.utaot.com/2013/02/27/scientists-prove-ancient-alien-cauldrons...
Are you sure its not Galactus' herald the Silver Surfer?
still more legit than the gas that ingnite but don't burn...
It's critical to study these anomalies. I suggest a $100B government program to delve into this. I, of course, should be the administrator.
Why always Siberia? Why not mysterious holes in DC?
(I mean the ones other than in their heads)
You just have a lot of ass holes there.
Headline: "Another mysterious hole swallowed AIPAC headquarters today. Fortunately, the Jefferson Memorial and the Smithsonian were spared."
Swallowed? No, there are no accidents when it comes to Israel.
The bastards STOLE the land like they always do. See if there were any giant diplomatic pouches leaving the Israeli embassy lately.
I expect that an illegal Israeli settlement will be constructed in the hole soon, with AIPAC claiming that God gave them rights to all the land under the earth's crust.
For the same reason aliens land around trailer parks and not in Central Park.
Take a walk around the darkest places of Central Park in the middle of the night and you'll find plenty of fucking aliens who will be more than happy to steal your very soul.
no soul stealers in CP these days, too cold even for them
Says the guy that lives in a state thats about to become the largest dry hole in the world. Knukles, better get your suspenders and metamucil ready, it may be time to move, LOL.
I thought only tornados landed in trailer parks.
Things in DC disapear in pockets not holes. Well I guess Mooch's ass which is a fat mysterious hole.
Siberia has a population density of about 3 people per square kilometre.
Makes it a lot more likely that shit can happen with nobody witnessing it, I think.
We have less population density than that in Nevada and since Art Bell left Coast to Coast AM we haven't had many alien holes found here either.
Only if your name is Saul Abrahamlowenrubinschwartzgoldenstein [in which case, we'll double your salary demands].
& if you can prove that these craters are cause by the Iranian & Syrian governments, we'll write you a blank check. Just a couple of pages with a cartoon bomb illustration would do fine.
Waut a fucking minute, I had the papers and studys already done for homework last night (found everything on Wikipedia) that it was the Norks.
You're right, it WAS the Norks. I just had to put that comment out there so that some bastards could earn a sheckel for downvoting & claim that they were actually DOING something instead of just counterfeitting money for themselves.
Somebody doesn't like some of us and seems to spend all day just trolling about giving some of us red marks.
Organized perceptions management of somebody just needing something better to do and serious professional help.
But who am I to judge?
You're gaining ground Knuks. ;-)
This has become a central hub for KGB,CIA, Mossad, MI6 and whatever other stock ticker you can think of. The point is someone will always be upset.
I'm begining to think we are giving them some of their ideas.
Lets face it, they can't hold a candle to spooks of days gone by.
Even Bill Shakespeare wrote a play about spying.
There is no question about that, the proliferation of ideas.
Being stolen form places just such as there. After all, it's by definition, necessary for the entire Perceptions Management process.
The new herd of ZH members is all that needs to be said. I have not seen such a surge on ZH in new members or commenting since I have been a member and my lurking before joining. What we do on ZH is question everything and all the new members should not be exempt from that questioning. It does make you wonder if they really are getting worried.
Seems as though quite a number of us are thinking the very same thing.... We're being invaded by the sly, the ignoble deceivers, the liars and cheats, the children of the multitude within the Anti-Christ's army of trouble makers and provocateurs, Perceptions Managers, all carrying forth along the lines so well outlined by Bernays and friends so many years ago.
Ah to be on Madison Avenue now that Don Draper is here.
They must have doubled Cass Sunstein's budget.
We have been infiltrated maybe even all the way to the blogger. We just have to weed them out. The lies always come to the surface.
So you're saying lies are less dense than the truth. Makes sense doesn't it?
Lies are like oil
I am sure we do give them ideas. It is pretty common practice for gov to hire dumb-asses, and lets not forget the elected ones by the moron who votes. it is a nightmare some of us can not wake up from. I believe a few of us on ZH and in the world or out of sync with the timeline we should be from. Our views do not fit in today's world yet 99% of the population are comfortable with the law of the land and its constant changing environment for the better of select few.
Well said
The larger joke is that the the 'red arrow brigade' think that their red arrows actually *mean* something...
I'm beginning to think Zero Hedge is the " antipodean" of global politics.
Agreed....I had to click your link above. Honestly had no idea what an antipodean was. Figured it was some poor sucker named dean who had some bad luck.
Why couldn't one open up under the Eccles building?
I have had some experiance at looking at big hole's before , so if you get the grant I can help.
It's critical to study these anomalies. I suggest a $100B government program to delve into this. I, of course, should be the administrator.
This calls for a fact-finding mission to Aruba. Yes, that's the ticket.
It must be in the author's handbook.
Nearly every article in National Geographic Magazine shall mention man caused climate change.
National geographic has become propaganda
As has the Global Warming...err "Weather" Channel. Whatever happend to MTV playing music, and The Weather Channel just giving us the fucking weather?
They've all been taken over by Leftists.
Pretty sure they'd prefer the term pregressives.....or communists.
Call them intellectuals......they love that.
Right, now I can tell my National Geographic story ... again. So many years ago, 30 years? I realized NG was part of the captured media on a mission when they had a story on conflict, flash-points over water, around the world. NG had maps and info on places like the Tigres and Euphrates, etc. Can't remember all the rest, but do remember being shocked at seeing nothing about the disappearing and now gone, Jordan River and the battles that have gone on in the last few decades over that watershed. Who took all the water, btw.
I thought they were called " Skunk Apes"?
Only in New Joisy,
or the White House.
lol. ? South Park season 14 episode 7 it's a jersey thing housewiv - YouTube
and they all hang out at the blue martini.
We got tons of those in Florida.
Since when has there been permafrost in Florida? Must be damned cold in Florida, COSMOS.
Those Global Warming theorists are wrong since there is now permafrost in Florida. Hell we are entering into an Ice Age rapidly...EGADS...Long Parkas.
"We got tons of those in Florida."
Look, there's one right between your flappity inbred ears.
There is one in your large intestine. Since yer head is up yer asshole neck deep you could see it if yer eyes weren't covered with shit.
Oh...and...acquire a sense of humor immediately...
Under the theory that history does not repeat but does rhyme:
Pingo rhymes with bingo.
I got global warming - PINGO!!!
Only two guys in the world can make these holes:
Putin and Chuck Norris.
Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!
At least no corvettes were harmed in that filming
Those Fracking Sasquatch bastages! I knew it all along.
Neither. That's a feral CHUD hole right there. Poor bastard on the rope will never see 'em coming.
Space based lasers targeting permafrost.
This is only a test.
We cratered some folks
It's called a meteor strike. You'd think the Ruskies would be familiar after the last one and Tunguska.
It's a test of rods from God. Deorbited tungsten rods. A weapon system.
It is the missing reactor cores from Fukushima.....
yes, there's no teling where they'll come out after burning their way right through
The reason Tepco kept on delaying the leakage report is that they were waiting for the thermonuclear war between Russia and the US to break out, so they could sneak around and inconspicuously dumping waste into missle craters.
They're clrealy getting desperate.
Brilliantly sad, but probably true. Many countries in the neighborhood look like they are bracing for impact.
Why doesn't anyone state the obvious? We've all seen the Fantastic Four movie.
The herald of Galactus (in this case the Silver Surfer) comes down from space and blasts holes in the earth.
Galactus comes with his bad-ass spaceship and devours the fucking planet.
Now, wasn't that easy?
The crater shape is wrong for a meteor hit and the one in Tunguska was an air burst not impact.
Acquire a sense of humor immediately please.
Global Warming! ~ lol
"Global Warming" sure is cold from where I sit...
*cough* bullshit...
Let me rephrase: "Global Warming" is a rich man's lie.
Are you concluding it is a lie based upon the observation from your back yard? I dont think it is wise to extropolate global conditions based upon looking out your window. Since it is so cold where you sit, maybe you could conclude there is a global ice age?
No just common sense and the fact that the scientific community along with NOAA has been fudging the numbers since the beginning because they are paid by the people who benefit from the whole global warming theory.
Remember what they do...?
They create a problem, get a reaction, and create a solution to the problem they created.
A recent example, the government says the internet is broken so they pass legislation that no one can read to fix it. Remember Obamacare, NDAA, Patriot Act? These are the same people pushing global warming mind you.
Everything is fucking awesome!
Don't leave out NASA-- got to defend the budget you now---
If it doesn't include my back yard then it isn't GLOBAL warming is it? You can call it LOCAL warming, or Climate Change, or Globaloney. But not GLOBAL WARMING.
I didnt call it anything. I just stated you cant conclude global conditions based upon a guys assessment of "cold" in his back yard. They guy didnt even report a temperature, just a perceived "cold". From that, My grandma has been preaching global cooling for the past 20 years!!
You sound like an ass hole, "globally". Based on solid scientific observations of course.
'Let me rephrase: "Global Warming" is a rich man's lie.'
... and a poor man's burden.
Why not. It's less prone to errors than the instrumentation, data collection methods, and models used by the AGCC religious zealots.
The OP said its cold outside, therefore GW is a lie. I questioned him on judging global conditions base upon his back yard. Well Ill play: Its 70 deg in my back yard, so I conclude he is full of shit. Guy cant even tell what the temp is in his own yard!
Yeah and in the 1940s ships could sail from the Pacific to the Atlantic by going NORTH of CANADA. Based on that simple backyard observation it has gotten significantly colder in the past 70+ years.
yep, the data is conclusive , you are still an ass hole.
Its warm in my back yard. Therefore global warming is true. Based upon the likes/junks, the logic is sound.
"Global Warming" is a rich man's lie."
Yep, Al Gore is laughing all the way to the bank.
There is an energy crisis because the gas tank in my truck is empty.
Try to expand your point of view.
It's impossible for your gas tank to be empty unless it's in the vacuum of space and even then their are neutrinos...
That is such a desperate reach for attention I dont even know how to respond. Now we are debating the definition of empty? Lol only on ZH. I guess I can keep drvingin my truck!! All that money I spend on gas previously was a waste.
No not only on ZH. Paid trolls of the PTB like you are everywhere these days. We've all read the reports from real scientists how the global warming change climate dohickey temp readings have been manipulated because the actual readings do NOT show any sort of warming. They have been making up numbers based on "models" and using those instead of the actuals.
You are a piece of shit.
I NEVER stated anything about global warming/cooling or WTF. I stated you cant make conclusions about global issues looking at a single back yard. ZH posters are soo eager to make a statement about politics they dont read.