Giant hole appears in Siberia...

[lordworm]

Creepy, but I wouldn't jump to conclusions.

[gimmeurblood]

Yeah, I was thinking it should win gape of the year.

if it starts emitting natural gasses i dont think ill be able to stop laughing over earth sized farts because my sense of humor never graduated 5th grade

[SexSlave1972]

Putin was there and farted !

[jonnie64]

This is some seriously crazy shit!!! I can't wait to see what the survey team comes up with if the fucking Russians actually release it.

[trish]

Russia is full of holes.

http://io9.com/former-soviet-mines-a...d-p-1605848757

[sukumvit boy]

I'd hit it!

[Michelle.]

Sinkhole?

[Tapatio]

Was it Trish who posted the mine picture?

Take a look around 0:27 on the video.

Obvious tunnels are obvious.

[crystalsopen]

Sinkhole?

It looks like permafrost was pushed out of the hole in some kind of eruption so def not a sink whole.

[crystalsopen]

Creepy, but I wouldn't jump to conclusions.

The most seemingly reasonable and consistent explanation I have heard is a chemical reaction due to melting per-ma frost and a natural gas pocket. There is a natural gas field 20 miles away, and the area is supposedly permafrost but looks pretty muddy in the pictures. Probably not creepy at all.