Giant Crater Appears In Northern Siberia 122
New submitter DavidMZ writes: The Siberian Times reports on a large crater of unknown origin that has appeared in the Yamal Peninsula in northern Siberia. The Russian government has dispatched a group of scientists to investigate the 80-meter-wide crater. Anna Kurchatova from Siberia's Sub-Arctic Scientific Research Center believes the crater was a result of an explosion when a mixture of water, salt, and natural gas exploded underground. The Yamai Peninsula is known to hold Russia's biggest natural gas reserve."
black hole caused by a black hole (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Wasn't that a movie? (Score:4, Insightful)
what I find more surprising is that someone was able to discover such a small crater. 80m isn't big relative to how big Siberia is.
True that it is not that big. But would you consider monitoring area + taking images from satellite(s) as the reason? Why would they monitor the whole area? I don't know. But images from satellite nowadays are much much higher resolution (compared to 15~20 years ago when I was using them on my study) and could easily be analysed using a computer software. So any changes in the area would alert those who are monitoring.
Re:nothing new (Score:2, Insightful)
But those holes were rather small....
Though the holes were rather small, they still had to count them all.