Several weeks after the appearance of a huge and mysterious hole located at "the end of the world", two new craters of unknown origin have been seen in the Russian region of Siberia . The mystery about the appearance of these holes continues to grow.
Still without having an official explanation about the first pit, scientists are faced with two more inexplicable and strange craters (discovered by a reindeer keeper): one of them is in the Yamal area (as is the first crater) and it is about 15 meters in diameter; the other is on the Taimyr peninsula , with a diameter of about 4 meters and between 60 and 100 meters deep.
What has caused these mysterious and huge holes? Researchers displaced to the area believe that the most plausible explanation is that there was a natural explosion of the gas accumulated under the permafrost, the permanent ice sheet that is found in much of the Siberian tundra, and that this caused the emergence of all these gigantic craters.
Be that as it may, the perplexity of scientists is palpable and neither ecologists, geologists or historians can, for now, reach a consensus on its origin. What is clear is that this event needs further investigation to determine both its causes and possible repercussions.
