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kpete

(71,979 posts)
Thu Aug 28, 2014, 12:37 PM Aug 2014

Massive Half-Mile-Long Crack Appears in Ground in Northern Mexico

Massive Half-Mile-Long Crack Appears in Ground in Northern Mexico

David Manthos, SkyTruth | August 28, 2014 11:04 am

Last week a video emerged of a giant fissure in the Northern Mexican desert, 3,300 feet long and up to 25 feet deep. Speculation centered at first around an earthquake, but the region is not known for seismic activity. I personally checked out the U.S. Geological Survey earthquake data because the Buena Vista Copper mine (the fourth largest in the world by output) is only about 150 miles north of the enormous crack, and earlier this month they spilled 40,000 cubic meters of sulphuric acid into two rivers during the worst spill in Mexico’s modern mining history. But I found no reports of tremors in the region and authorities were skeptical that this had anything to do with an earthquake.


VIDEO & MORE:
http://ecowatch.com/2014/08/28/massive-fissure-northern-mexico/

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Massive Half-Mile-Long Crack Appears in Ground in Northern Mexico (Original Post) kpete Aug 2014 OP
As the link goes on to day... "this is the result of human activity run amok." Chiyo-chichi Aug 2014 #1
NSFW! Orrex Aug 2014 #2
This dude's responsible. randome Aug 2014 #3

Chiyo-chichi

(3,577 posts)
1. As the link goes on to day... "this is the result of human activity run amok."
Thu Aug 28, 2014, 12:42 PM
Aug 2014

They have sucked so much water out of the ground that the earth is collapsing.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
3. This dude's responsible.
Thu Aug 28, 2014, 01:00 PM
Aug 2014

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]
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