Scientists are sounding the alarm: the mysterious cracks appear across the planet

Scientists do not know what to think about: South America is bursting at the seams. In southern Peru, suddenly appeared a huge crack length of 3 km and a width of about 100 meters.

Anomaly occurred in the district Huakullani Chukuito province near the famous Lake Titicaca. A crack has appeared almost immediately: the earth like a burst at the site of a large tension, the far scattered huge chunks of soil.

Interestingly, the crack did not appear in the earthquake. In general, there was no catastrophe, the earth simply gone. The crack occurred on level ground and is not associated with any disasters. Scientists are confused with this fact. Cracks also appear in neighboring Bolivia. And not so long ago, the crack happened in Africa – Ethiopia. Maybe these phenomena is common nature: the continents literally split in front of mankind. (BetaNovosti)

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http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2011/03/07/scientists-are-sounding-the-alarm-the-mysterious-cracks-appear-across-the-planet/
500 foot crack in the earth appears in Michigan, US (FromTheOld)

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The only time I ever unrec a post is for unscientific alarmist gibberish.

Do you have them?

Did you expect us to find the articles ourselves? I mean, I can find them, but wouldn't it be polite to include the links?

"Anthem"

The birds they sang
at the break of day
Start again
I heard them say
Don't dwell on what
has passed away
or what is yet to be.
Ah the wars they will
be fought again
The holy dove
She will be caught again
bought and sold
and bought again
the dove is never free.

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.

We asked for signs
the signs were sent:
the birth betrayed
the marriage spent
Yeah the widowhood
of every government --
signs for all to see.

I can't run no more
with that lawless crowd
while the killers in high places
say their prayers out loud.
But they've summoned, they've summoned up
a thundercloud
and they're going to hear from me.

Ring the bells that still can ring ...

You can add up the parts
but you won't have the sum
You can strike up the march,
there is no drum
Every heart, every heart
to love will come
but like a refugee.

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
That's how the light gets in.
That's how the light gets in.

-L. Cohen

of rifts, I'm sure. They're part of the whole plate tectonics thingie.

Cracks exist throughout the area. Comes with the territory.

African crack above. Two plates are separating. Common knowledge.

separating as they are pushed apart. More plate tectonics.

:shrug:

I actually Googled and read each of the stories. It's all crap - at least the mysterious nature of these cracks is crap. Woo sites. Woo stories. Woo-woo.

The article isn't so much about large cracks appearing,
as it is about a small quantity of crack having disappeared.

Not that impressive, is it?

Same tectonic process. Same place.

Two plates are moving there. What would you expect?

Edit to correct spelling.

Shifting land masses may be the Earth's way of protecting herself. Or....it's the end of the world as we know it.

How's that either or? :rofl:

with it suspected to be from a sinkhole. It's not really going to be a mystery. It's only a mystery to people who are looking for mysteries, or who know nothing about geology. That's the case with all of these.

This is all spooky-stuff material, posted at woo sites like the one in the link you finally added. I Googled these, so I could check them out. They're only a mystery if you don't know how the Earth's plates and other geology works.

I see now, why you didn't post the links. I really do. The actual stories are a bit embarrassing, I think.

I mostly post stuff just to annoy you :party:

facts about woo and posting them in response to posts like this. You truly had never heard of the Great Rift Valley in Africa? You don't know anything about plate tectonics? That's OK, if you haven't and don't, of course. But, someone will post information when woo appears on DU. Me or someone else. It's part of my mission in life. When the wacky conspiracy theory stuff shows up, I go hunt down the facts, and post them, so that others won't have to do all that searching. It has nothing to do with you.

Now, I do not know what cause the Peruvian crack or earth movement. It's recent. We'll have an explanation soon. You do know that Peru is active geologically, though, right?

Anyhow, thanks for finally posting that link. At the link, there are links to all of these stories. I did manage to find them all on Google, though, before you posted the link.

things that I find interesting. And other people might also find interesting. I admit, sometimes I jump the gun and post something where the truth is fudged. I don't mind you pointing these things out. But you always seen to do it in a belittling condescending way.
Which I do find annoying. So if you could work on that it would be nice :toast:

and provide information. That's not condescending. I actually researched your linkless OP so I could provide some information to other DUers.

Your original source is, on its face, a woo site, one that discusses all sorts of conspiracy nonsense. The same is true with several of the source sites for the other stories you listed.

Consider the source. That's what I do. Then, I use my knowledge of geology, which I've gained by studying that for many years, to debunk such nonsense.

Everything you posted is pretty much nonsense. No "scientists are alarmed." They're not. The only incidents that have not been explained in these stories are ones where no earth scientist has examined the phenomenon.

Just because you're interested in something does not mean that it is in any way accurate. Given the sources for this stuff, alarm bells should have gone off as soon as you got to the sites. Any site that is "The Watchers" is suspect immediately. Whoever wrote that site cannot even write in decent English.

Real sources offer information. Woo sources offer woo. There is an easily-discernible difference between the two.

As I said, one of my missions in life is debunking woo. I will not stop doing so, no matter who posts it. Woo needs to be debunked, and in no uncertain terms. If you post it and I see it, I will debunk it.

we are in ecosystem collapse and these things are signs of that.As you know, science has often been way off the mark over the century's until a new consensus is formed. I will likely continue posting things I find relevant to these ideas. Mother earth is preparing for a giant shit storm I believe as a self defense mechanism, we are killing the planet.

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

Arthur Schopenhauer

It is not supported by evidence. You're welcome to believe whatever you're able to believe. When you post woo, I will post explanations.

Schopenhauer was not a geologist. He knew nothing about plate tectonics. He has no expertise in this particular field. I know Schopenhauer's writings very well.

Do not take my debunking of woo personally. I will continue to do it whenever it appears.

They believe something so much that they go out and search for any unusual event that could potentially fit what they desperately want to be true (e.g. the world is ending, et cetera, et cetera).

Do you have any evidence of that? Otherwise it's just the flipside of creationism. The faith of destructionism, seizing on real events but misinterpreting them in a non-scientific way.

Many falsehoods are also ridiculed, but somehow they never get to the self-evident stage. Given that cracks in the earth are a long-known phenomenon, given that these cited cracks are not at all unusual from a geological perspective, and given that no one is proposing any evidence of a deviation from normal mechanisms, you need to come up with some evidence for your belief system before others will accept it.

Otherwise, you are really seeking religious converts. I do not mean to be rude, but that is how I see it. On a board like this you are probably doomed to some pretty strong rebuttals.

That's the excuse religionists use. Pretty much the same thing with the eco-woo folks. It suits them to believe that everything is a sign of impending ecological disaster, so evidence is not required. "Common sense," you see...

Thanks for posting!

I could name various things on the planet, but I'm at work at the moment and don't have time.

The BP disaster in the Gulf, Fukushima pouring radiation into the sea. Not to mention overfishing and collapse of many fish species.

"We have underestimated the overall risks, and that the whole of marine degradation is greater than the sum of its parts," Rogers said. "That degradation is now happening at a faster rate than predicted."

Indeed, the pace of change is tracking or has surpassed the worst-case scenarios laid out by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its landmark 2007 report, according to the new assessment.

The chain reaction leading to increased acidification of the oceans begins with a massive influx of carbon into Earth's climate system.

Oceans act as a massive sponge, soaking up more than a quarter of the CO2 humans pump into the atmosphere.

But when the sponge becomes too saturated, it can disrupt the delicately balanced ecosystems on which marine life -- and ultimately all life on Earth -- depends.

http://news.discovery.com/earth/oceans-distress-foreshadow-mass-extinction-110621.html

Europe Braces for Serious Crop Losses and Blackouts

Record dry spring could drive up wheat prices, and lack of water may force nuclear reactors to shut down

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=europe-braces-for-serious-crop-losses

The solar maximum peak expected 2011 thru 2013
"The August 1st event really opened our eyes," says Karel Schrijver of Lockheed Martin's Solar and Astrophysics Lab in Palo Alto, CA. "We see that solar storms can be global events, playing out on scales we scarcely imagined before."

Explosions on the sun are not localized or isolated events, they announced. Instead, solar activity is interconnected by magnetism over breathtaking distances. Solar flares, tsunamis, coronal mass ejections--they can go off all at once, hundreds of thousands of miles apart, in a dizzyingly-complex concert of mayhem.

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/13dec_globaleruption/

Colony collapse disorder and the food supply..................Have you noticed. I used to see thousands of honeybees each day as a kid. Now it is a rare sight to just see one. At least in Wisconsin......

Though not the only species up to the job, the honey bee is the mainstay of industrial agriculture, which pays migratory beekeepers millions each year to bring their hives around at blooming time. So it is no small matter that a third of the nation's managed honey bee colonies died off in 2006 due to a syndrome that has come to be known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), or that the disaster repeated itself the following year and is expected to do so again in the year ahead.

http://www.nrdc.org/thisgreenlife/0809.asp

I could go on, but you probably will just say it is all woo woo. So I won't waste anymore of my time.

I realize that the plodding, orderly type of the thinking process to which I am acculturated may seem irritating to some, but the thing is that it works better than the alternative.

Each one of those is a real issue, but none of them have to do with faults and cracks in the earth.

see your earlier post to which I was replying, goodnight......

Goodness, I like that turn of phrase. :hi:

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scientific explanation. :rofl:

In the mere speck of time that this civilization has been scribbling its history, the earth has been a pretty peaceful place.

But geology shows that it has not always been so calm. In fact, massive changes have taken place. As far as we can tell many massive changes happened in a blink of time.

It doesn't pay to be curious (unless you are a paid geologist) about changes happening, but it is wise to direct one's attention to changes, be they large or small.

Thanks for this thread, Pharaoh.

After some googling, it turns out that the Michigan crack was the result of a very small earthquake:
http://www.mtu.edu/news/stories/2010/october/story31847.html


In areas that were covered by glaciers in the last Ice Age crustal deformation occurred and the earth's surface is still adjusting from the weight lifted off it. But moisture changes and so forth can also cause these types of movements.

More about it:
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/MenomineeCrack/