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Craters in Russia are mysteriously popping up everywhere.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 12:52 pm
Posted on 2/26/15 at 12:52 pm
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So what are we dealing with here? I know a few popped up in the last year, but apparently they found another one thanks to satellite imaging. The official claim is that these are the result of underground gas explosions that may have been triggered by gas explosions.
But based on the pictures, the sides are relatively smooth, with no accounting for the matter that would have been "blown out" of these craters.
So WTF is going on?
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Posted on 2/26/15 at 12:54 pm to Gcockboi
Aliens
Posted on 2/26/15 at 12:58 pm to Gcockboi
Ever seen Tremors?
Posted on 2/26/15 at 12:59 pm to Gcockboi
Gatorprincess is looking for a mail order groom over there.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 12:59 pm to Gcockboi
Gaia gettin ready to do work.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 12:59 pm to Gcockboi
Graboid
Posted on 2/26/15 at 1:03 pm to Patton
Posted on 2/26/15 at 1:04 pm to Gcockboi
Definitely Tremors
Posted on 2/26/15 at 1:08 pm to Gcockboi
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underground gas explosions that may have been triggered by gas explosions.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 1:10 pm to The_Joker
I had a good chuckle at that
Posted on 2/26/15 at 1:11 pm to Porter Osborne Jr
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Gatorprincess is looking for a mail order groom over there.
Yes
Posted on 2/26/15 at 1:13 pm to Gcockboi
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“We know now of seven craters in the Arctic area. Five are directly on the Yamal peninsula, one in Yamal Autonomous district, and one is on the north of the Krasnoyarsk region, near the Taimyr peninsula,"
They're certainly not blasts. More like upwellings. At about 70 meters they're not exceptionally deep either. I would guess they're caused by a gas such as methane that accumulates as the tundra thaws and then pushes the ground up and out and then collapses back on itself.
Earth zits.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 1:16 pm to Kentucker
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Earth zits
Posted on 2/26/15 at 1:25 pm to Gcockboi
quote:Andy is probably just going around dropping the dirt down his pants when nobody is looking.
with no accounting for the matter that would have been "blown out" of these craters.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 1:47 pm to Gcockboi
Methane hydrate deposits in the permafrost dissociating because of global warming resulting in cave ins
Posted on 2/26/15 at 1:51 pm to BamaChemE
It's Climate Change not global warming. The boogie man of our age.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 2:04 pm to Gcockboi
Disturbances in the fabric of the space time continuum
The dirt and rock is now in another time/dimension
Putins fault
The dirt and rock is now in another time/dimension
Putins fault
Posted on 2/26/15 at 3:31 pm to The_Joker
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underground gas explosions that may have been triggered by gas explosions.
There is a simple, yet beautiful, elegance to that ... I lol'd out of admiration.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 3:44 pm to Kentucker
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They're certainly not blasts. More like upwellings. At about 70 meters they're not exceptionally deep either. I would guess they're caused by a gas such as methane that accumulates as the tundra thaws and then pushes the ground up and out and then collapses back on itself
I think you're close.
I'm not a thermodynamic or hydraulic engineer but my shot at what is going-on is more like this.
Relatively shallow underground voids fill with explosive natural gases with the voids being somewhere on top of a solid substrata and covered in a loamy, sandy, layer of who knows, maybe a kilometer or less.
Said void, or pocket, filled with natural gas slides over the granite subsrata, a natural tectonic process, until it eventually reaches dips in the solid granite substrata and this causes a sudden collapse of the pocket of gas which causes the loamy top cover to suddenly collapse on top of the pocket of gas ... and this, by means of the sudden compression, causes either a hydraulic recoil or thermodynamic explosion much as what is experienced inside of a diesel engine.
Now, with that said it's understood that methane would compress into a liquid before it would explode, to the best of my knowledge ... although I'm not sure how it would react to sudden and violent compression. But if you were to have a mixture of methane and oil I think you could probably get the desired effect.
The result would be a poof type explosion on the surface. Some matter shoved up and out with the rest collapsing back in on itself.
Anyways, that's what I believe is happening.
I'd like to know how far apart all these things are but I'd bet there is a pattern and it travels along the same line-direction that the plate is moving.
Posted on 2/26/15 at 4:34 pm to scrooster
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