Earth Crack, Fissure

Last weekend, Coloradans watched with shock as part of U.S. 36 between Denver and Boulder was closed due to a crack that eventually became a gaping hole in the road.

There were multiple fissures that broke the ground in the Mojave Desert in southern California on Thursday and Friday after two major M6.4 and M7.1 earthquakes struck the area.

Sensation prevails after volcanic lava-like inflammable liquid has been reported erupting again in Tripura since Wednesday morning. The incident has been reported from Madhuban under Kathaltali village, on the outskirts of Agartala. This...

A Chinese man luckily survived falling into a river after the six-meter-high river bank collapsed underneath him in Baoding City, north China's Hebei Province. Man luckily survives fall...

The ground is shifting under Iran's capital, Tehran, home to approximately 15 million people and the biggest city by population in western Asia. High-resolution satellite images recently revealed that in some places, the metropolis...

Gigantic cracks are opening up all around the world. Last example is a huge fissure in the Arabian desert as shown in this video and following pictures: Here in pictures: The ground is also cracking up...

There is a giant crack growing in Diamante in Entre Ríos, Argentina, which may finally swallow the entire town. Many have already evacuated their homes fearing a total collapse. Here some pretty impressive images...

Cracked gas chambers in the seabed south of Svalbard could blow out and create craters that are up to 30 metres deep, say scientists... Exactly as in Siberia recently! Researchers have found more than 100...

Nearly 100 children were evacuated from their classrooms on September 24, 2018 when a huge sinkhole opened up at Drumgossatt National School, near Carrickmacross in Monaghan, Ireland. The collapse of a disused Gypsum mine in...

A total of 491 people were killed in monsoon rains in Kerala since May 29. But, now the flood-hit state has to face a new problem. Giant earth cracks are drying up rivers and...

Since Sunday evening, the Laguna de Chakanbacán, located in Quintana Roo, Mexico is being drained by large sinkholes, killing a high number of fish, turtles, swamp crocodiles and eels, among other species. The sinkholes...

Tungnafellsjökull central volcano has not have recorded historical activity, but is considered an active volcano that has erupted during the past 10,000 year, mainly from flank fissures on the NE side where young basaltic...

Grand Teton National Park staff are monitoring a crack in a rock buttress above the Hidden Falls viewing area near Jenny Lake. To ensure visitor safety, the information is being used to develop a...

Grand Teton National Park has closed the Hidden Falls and Inspiration Point tourist attractions because of concerns that a fissuring rock wall could pose a danger, as growing cracks and fissures were observed in...

There is currently a huge crack growing in the area of Milpillas, that has already swallowed up parts of a street and a few houses in the north. Geologists say the ground is very...

New huge cracks next to two small fissures technically considered part of fissure 10 up at the corner of Pomaikai and Malama are growing and now steaming. The cracks on these properties run parallel...

Giant cracks won't stop fissuring the ground of Kenya in recent weeks. The last geological anomaly opened up right in the slopes of Elgeyo escarpment, where thousands of people now live in fear of...

Several new cracks have opened up in Hawaii (USA) and Uganda (Africa). Here some videos: First video from Hawaii: and here in Uganda, just west of Kenya: Follow us: Facebook and Twitter

Over 300 homes have been destroyed and several people displaced after several big cracks developed following heavy rain in Bupoto Sub County and Namisindwa town council in Namisindwa district, Uganda on May 23, 2018....

This video is terrifying! A huge crack related to the ongoing Kilauea volcanic eruption goes right through a family house. The building may be soon underground as the cracks in the ground are growing...

A giant crack measuring more than 400 meters long and 4 meters deep opened up at the border between Tláhuac and Milpa Alta, two of the 16 boroughs of Mexico city, Mexico on May...

Hawaii's famed Kilauea volcano underwent a new eruption Thursday that is now threatening neighborhoods with red lava on the eastern edge of Hawaii Island, prompting evacuations. A giant crack about 500 feet long has formed...

The Rattlesnake Ridge slow landslide near Yakima, Washington, is still moving at about a foot-and-one-half a week but there's very little media coverage. And geologists cannot say for certain when it will accelerate into...

A month after a huge crack was reported in Kenya’s Rift Valley, another two-kilometre fault line has cracked open on Monday on the outskirts of Naivasha town in Nakuru County where farms have been...

This ice sheet, which covers 1.7 million square kilometers , was relatively stable 25 years ago, but now loses one billion tons of ice every day. On a recent expedition, researchers saw an...

The Narok - Mai Mahiu road has been reopened to traffic after repair works on the section that had been cut off by flood waters. Hundreds of travellers were stranded for hours on road...

Giant cracks are opening all around the world. While terrifying landlide and fissures are perforating the gound in Peru, another large and unexplained geological event split the Earth in two over at least 200...

This is terrifying! Yes, the residents of Lluto, a small community located in the province of Chumbivilcas, department of Cusco, Peru, is literally cracking up, with dozens of huge and growing cracks...

Oups! 70 homes - and still counting - have been dragged and destroyed with paved streets, light poles, water pipes and drainage by a major landslide in Tijuana's Lomas del Rubí neighborhood on February...

Mexico is used to huge craters. But on January 17, 2018, drivers using the Torreón - Saltillo highway were left baffled by a deep smoking hole in the ground that was burning from the...

A huge ridge cracks near Yakima prompts evacuation warning. The huge crack on Rattlesnake Ridge is active since October 2017. It is 20 acres in size, is moving at a rate of about 1.3...

After days of rain, huge cracks suddenly opened in the ground of Lampang's Mae Mo district, Thailand over more than 1.3 hectares, heavily damaging 8 houses. The landslide and the Earth collapsed near a creek,...

A massive crater measuring 200 meters in diameter and 30 meters deep collapsed in the Lviv district, Ukraine on Sept. 30th. Although the cause remains unknown, a small earthquake hit the area on September 30,...

A gigantic sinkhole opened up in Apopka, Florida on September 13, 2017, literally opening a crack in the Earth. Another consequence of Hurricane Irma big time flooding. Irma was so powerful that it drained shorelines in Florida...

Mexico was hit by tropical storm Katia less than 24 hours after the most powerful earthquake that hit the country in the last 100 years - a devastating 8.1 magnitude earthquake - killed at...

The largest glacier of Iceland is melting like an ice cream. Giant holes as large as 1,300 feet wide and caused by volcanic eruptions have opened up in Vatnajökull. Vatnajökull is the second largest glacier in Europe,...

Is the earth moving in Folsom, California? Several large cracks over the weekend appeared in and around a Folsom home, and no one seems to know why. Pearl Wood, who discovered the cracks explains: The...

Two new craters formed on Yamal peninsula in 2017, with the latest exploding on 28 June with the eruption picked up by new seismic sensors. Local reindeer herder witnessed the tundra explosion that led to...

A massive earth crack is growing and widening since June 4, 2017 destroying several villages in the Indian state of Manipur. More than 250 people have been evacuated to a temporary relief camp and are...

Researchers working in the Barents Sea have discovered hundreds of craters on the Arctic Sea floor, some measuring over a kilometer in width. These craters, which date back to the end of the last Ice...