Earth’s ‘Gateway to Hell’ keeps getting bigger
In a remote region of the Siberian tundra, there is a place that locals call “the gate to hell.” In summer, the peaceful sounds of its waterfalls are interrupted by the booms and crashes of falling earth.
The indigenous Yakut people are rightly wary of the massive, slowly collapsing crater. Even if it’s not In fact a portal to another dimension, the Batagay The crater is a disturbing mark of our changing world. And, in a sense, the training East an opening to a hidden subterranean dimension, even if it is not supernatural.
To begin with, the Batagay crater is not technically a crater. It’s actually a retrogressive thaw collapse (or RTS), which is a growing sinkhole caused by thawing permafrost and land subsidence – essentially, a landslide in slow motion. Batagay is the largest RTS in the world and it is growing.
But why? Find out by watching our latest video.
If you want to see more popular science videos, subscribe on YouTube. We will offer you explanations and explorations of our strange world.
The article Earth’s ‘Gateway to Hell’ Keeps Growing appeared first on Popular Science.
