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Mysterious Hole

By Aaron Young posted 07-18-2014 11:17 AM

  

http://www.newsy.com/videos/scientists-investigating-mysterious-giant-hole-in-siberia/

http://news.msn.com/offbeat/66-yard-crater-appears-in-far-northern-siberia



Godzilla? Aliens? Secret Russian government project? Evidence of the "Hollow Earth" theory? Polar shift? Old mine workings? This hole looks like it was made from a Tripod from War of the Worlds, or something out of Fantastic 4 Rise of the Silver Surfer. 

Would someone out there please tell me what is going on?

I mean this is the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration. Our porfessionals are among the best in the world. We can easily recognize a glory hole when we see one. This should be no problem for some of them to answer.  Now I realize most of them are too busy making lots of money and trying to fly around the world on private jets to care about an impending alien invasion, or a global calamity similar to the Core or 2012, but as a student of Mining Engineering from Utah, I would like to know the scientific answer behind this event. 

If not for me, answer the question for the sake of science.

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Saurabh Tripathi
01-20-2015 09:56 AM

I think no one can answer your question just by taking a look this picture and yeah it is a lot confusing but please do write if you ever got the answer

Piyush Pratik
09-04-2014 01:09 PM

Thank you for the post. This has put me in a sort of confusion too. In first sight,
this seems to be a hole created from outside towards the core. It might be the effect of meteors. But, meteors do never produce such deep holes. So, this is indeed confusing.

Jan Samuelson
07-21-2014 06:46 PM

Thank you John and Vasu for your comments. When I saw this article I thought to myself what would cause that. Is it something that has been there for a while or is it new. It would be interesting to know if it is something like what happens in Yellowstone (geysers) or just an explosion from inside. I love Science.

John Hayden
07-18-2014 12:29 PM

This looks like a welling upwards from within rather than an impact form beyond. Maybe a geothermal explusion with a quick subsidence to create such a uniform hole.

Vasu Gangrade
07-18-2014 11:58 AM

I read this news a while back on msn and thought it was hoax and moved on (I don't trust MSN). But now that other news agencies are covering this, I think as mining engineers we need to think about such a big subsidence. First look of a picture suggests some kind of tectonic shift, just slower than normal to cause an earth quake or large fracture, which might have created a void over million years. But I am still not clear of why it looks so nicely lined from inside. Thanks for bringing this up Aaron.