The images are impressive. A giant crack 700 meters long and 45 meters wide appeared in recent days in the chain of the Big Horn Mountains, a mass of Rocky Mountains , Wyoming, in the United States.
This giant crack in the earth Appeared in the last two weeks were we hunt ranch in the Bighorn Mountains. pic.twitter.com/yFQxTqpRhE
– SNS Outfitters (SNSOutfitters) October 23, 2015
Infiltration and landslide
Already nicknamed “The crack “(” crack “) or” The gash “(” nick “), the crack was caused by rain that fell in the spring, which made the damp rock, caused infiltration and drags the mountain down.
“Without having observed this phenomenon from the inside, I can not be positive, but from what I’ve seen, it seems that the crack is a slow landslide” commented a researcher Wyoming Geological Survey , an organization that monitors geological hazards in the United States.
Although gigantic, notch, which is located in an uninhabited area, not in human or material consequences.