On July 16th 2014, a scientist at Russia's Scientific Research Center of the Arctic reported that a huge cater had been discovered in Siberia on the Yamal Peninsula. According to Andrei Plekhanov, a senior researcher, the crater is 66 meters wide, but an asteroid strike has already been rule out as a probable cause.
Plekhanov says that the crater appeared to be made up of 80% ice and there were no traces of an explosion. It has a depth of 70 meters with an icy lake at the bottom. Plekhanov believes that rising temperatures in the region may have created a build up of pressure that forced ice upward through the ground.
Some have speculated that the cause was everything from a missile strike to extraterrestrials, as the Yamal Peninsula is known as, "the end of the world." The crater itself has been nicknamed, "the Yamal black hole."
On July 29th 2014, a local Russian newspaper reported that two more craters have also been discovered. The second crater has a diameter of 15 meters and is on the Yamal Peninsula, as is the first. The third crater is on the Taymyr Peninsula, east of Yamal. The hole of the third crater has a perfectly formed cone, with a diameter of 4 meters and an estimated depth of 60 to 100 meters.
No radiation levels have been detected at either site. Researchers have offered several theories as to how the craters and the resulting holes were made, but hesitate to say for certain just how. The consensus is that more study is needed in order to arrive at a firm conclusion.
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