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- Known as the Batagaika crater, it's what's officially called a ' megaslump ' or ' thermokarst '. Many of these megaslumps have been appearing across Siberia in recent years, but researchers think Batagaika could be something of an anomaly in the region, located around 660 km (410 miles) north-east of the region's capital city of Yakutsk.
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It is the result of a scientific drilling effort to penetrate as deeply as possible into the Earth's crust conducted by the Soviet Union in the Pechengsky District of the Kola Peninsula, near the Russian border with Norway.
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Oct 20, 2023 · The Kola Superdeep Borehole, located in Russia, is the world's deepest man-made hole, reaching a depth of 40,230 feet (12,262 meters) or 7.6 miles (12.2 kilometers), surpassing the depth of the Mariana Trench and the height of Mount Everest.
Nov 10, 2009 · A repository of the many core samples can be found in the nickel-mining town of Zapolyarny, about ten kilometers south of the hole. For its ambitious mission and its contributions to...
Jul 22, 2016 · Lying below a small, nondescript rusty cap in Murmansk, Russia, is the deepest hole ever drilled, reaching a whopping 12 kilometres (7.5 miles) into the Earth’s crust.
Jan 18, 2024 · Giant exploding craters only known to exist on Russia's permafrost-covered Yamal and Gydan peninsulas may result from a specific set of conditions not found elsewhere in the Arctic.
May 21, 2021 · Known as the Kola Superdeep Borehole, the ludicrously deep hole was located on the Kola Peninsula in the frosty depths of northwestern Russia, not far from the Russian border with Norway.
Feb 26, 2021 · Roughly two-thirds of Russia’s land territory is covered in permafrost, which can be up to 1,500 metres deep in parts of Siberia. The first blowout crater was accidentally discovered by pilots...
