Massive crack in earth mysteriously opens up in Bighorn Mountains

[Spinster]

Stuff like this happens around the world from time to time. Look at giant sink holes, for example. This spring will be two years ago an entire mountain in the PNW slid off killing scores of people and critically injuring numerous others. Today, after a couple of years of concentrated work, it looks like a moonscape and the roadway sits 22 feet higher than it originally did. Somethings present with no warning.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

...Global Warming to blame

 

[Political Junky]

Fracking

 

[longknife]

Am I wrong or is this no more than one huge mud slide?

 

[airplanemechanic]

Where do earthquakes originate?

I'll wait.

The White House.

 

[aris2chat]

“An engineer from Riverton, WY came out to shed a little light on this giant crack in the earth. Apparently, a wet spring lubricated across a cap rock. Then, a small spring on either side caused the bottom to slide out. [The engineer] estimated 15 to 20 million yards of movement. By range finder, an estimate is 750 yards long and about 50 yards wide.”

 

[rcfieldz]

It's just an odd form of sinkhole.

 

[aris2chat]

Instead of five pages of speculation, you could have just done a quick search and found the answer in a matter of seconds