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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums3rd Siberian Crater Found
According to residents in Yamal the first crater was formed in Sept of 2013, and is 90 ft wide, the second crater is also in Yamal and is 49 ft wide, while the 3rd crater is 13 ft wide, found on the Taymyr Peninsula in the Kransoyark region:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2708345/Mystery-Siberian-crater-deepens-Scientists-left-baffled-two-NEW-holes-appear-Russias-icy-wilderness.html
Coupled with reports like this:
Vast methane plumes have been discovered boiling up from the seafloor of the Arctic ocean on the continental slope of the Laptev Sea by a dream team of international scientists. Over the last decade a warming tongue of Atlantic ocean water has been flowing along the Siberian Arctic ocean's continental slope destabilizing methane ice, hypothesize the team of Swedish, Russian and American scientists.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/28/1317252/--Vast-methane-plumes-escaping-from-the-seafloor-discovered-in-Siberian-Arctic-Sea
villager
(26,001 posts)...the more and more of them they find..
FogerRox
(13,211 posts)nt
zappaman
(20,605 posts)dickthegrouch
(3,151 posts)First one was 60 meters, now they're down to 4 meters. Far more acceptable as "focussed" weapon.
dawg
(10,610 posts)If we have a large scale release of trapped methane, it could lead to a greenhouse effect that is substantially outside the upper range of most climate models. It would be bad.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)A huge amount of methane could easily burst into flame with lightning.
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)That's pretty much game over. Next stop, mass extinction event.
joshcryer
(62,265 posts)It's going to suck.
Kaleva
(36,147 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,321 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)I'll give you that the aliens have some weird finger placement, but damn....
We are the fungus that grows in the finger holes.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Adding methane to the climate model results in disaster.
Uncle Joe
(58,112 posts)Thanks for the thread, FogerRox.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)Hekate
(90,202 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)areas are covered with mammoth, horse, and other ice age animal bones. Must have been quite a vibrant place over the past 200 million years.
AnnieBW
(10,350 posts)Satan's coming for ya, Putin!
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Ilsa
(61,675 posts)are pingoes (singular: pingo), not melting with methane release. I guess we'll know soon.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)Pingoes are one, methane blowouts are another. I think the meteorite theory is now off the table.
FogerRox
(13,211 posts)unless someone removed all the melted water. & Pingos dont generally have ejecta.
ecstatic
(32,567 posts)From the article:
greytdemocrat
(3,299 posts)Hekate
(90,202 posts)davidn3600
(6,342 posts)These open up in Florida and a few other parts of the world all the time. The bedrock develops cavities and erodes over time. Eventually the surface collapses.
Perhaps there was ice stuck under the surface that melted and drained leaving a cavity.