Tornadoes, tsunamis, and earthquakes are a few of the more well-known examples of Mother Nature’s mighty wrath. But those are just the tip of the iceberg.
Shepherds working in a field in Russia learned this first hand when they heard a tremendous rumbling sounds in the night and ventured out the next day to find something utterly unreal….
In 2014 something very strange appeared on the the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia.
People reported hearing rumblings in the night before venturing out the next day and finding this massive crater.
Farmers sleeping in the area described hearing a massive boom like a clap of thunder the night before it appeared.
No one knew what had caused its sudden appearance.
Some people even suspected the work of aliens.
But after a few years of research, geologists have finally cracked the code.
The crater was caused by the eruption of something called a pingo.
A pingo is a core of ice directly under the surface of a plot of land.
Half of the ice core is filled with gas, and as the core thaws, pressure begins to build until a dramatic eruption occurs.
Most of these end up forming sizeable lakes.
But this one hasn’t filled in yet, which gives geologists a chance to do research it.
Exploding underground ice? That’s just nuts. Imagine if something like this happened in your backyard! (although you need huge backyard for this)
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