The ‘door to hell’ is growing, nothing can stop it

May 24, 2022 08:45 GMT+7

The Batagaika crater, known as the ‘door to hell’ in the world, is located in Siberia. According to measurements from the 1980s, the crater is about 1 km long and 86 meters deep.

Hell’s door is growing wider and wider, nothing can stop it

The crater reveals layers of soil that are between 120,000 and 200,000 years old. According to dating, the oldest soil layer is up to 650,000 years old.

The Siberian region is home to many giant sinkholes, formed from the melting of permafrost below the ground. Among them, Batagaika is considered one of the largest sinkholes in the world. The Yakut people who reside in the area believe that the crater is the passageway to hell.

Recently, researchers are concerned about the crater’s steady growth and expansion over the years. It is estimated that it grows about 20 to 30 meters per year, much faster than before, which is an alarming rate.

Investigations over the years have found that the crater will continue to expand, with no signs of stopping or anything stopping the expansion.

The mystery surrounding the sinkhole leads the Yakutians to believe that the hole’s growing size is due to the influence of activities from the underground ‘underworld’.

NASA satellite images show that the ‘door to hell’ is growing wider and wider

Meanwhile, according to experts, the cause of the crater’s widening is the inner permafrost layer melting due to the effects of climate change.

It is known that the land in this area was permanently frozen during the Ice Age, about 2.58 million years ago. But it was exposed to sunlight in the 1960s when the forest was cleared.

The ice in the ground began to melt, and the ground collapsed and subsided. As the Earth continues to get hotter, more surface area approaches higher temperatures and the ice deep within begins to melt. Global warming causes the crater to continue to expand, estimated at an increasing rate, until it engulfs everything around.

Many locals live far away from the area but have heard disturbing explosions coming from the area.

Studying the Batagaika crater will help scientists understand more about the paleontological world that sank deep under the ice hundreds of thousands of years ago.

An expedition in 2018 by scientists working at Northeastern Federal University and Kindai University in Japan found the well-preserved pony carcass.

The foal is about 42,000 years old, its fur and internal organs are intact because it is deep in the permanent ice. Scientists were even able to extract liquid blood from the horse’s carcass.

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