This blurry video shows a strange phenomenon in Saudi Arabia: a 9-meter (~30 feet) tall sand fountain or geyser near the city of Al Ahsa. Notice that the sand doesn’t mound up, as if there is a giant hole underneath that is just churning up the sand particles. If anyone know what this is, please post your comments below.
Reported from an Islamic website, translated from the original
Arabic:
"Suddently, a 9-meter fountain (geyser) apparead, in the Al-Ahsae City, Eastern Saudi Arabia.
Immediately, Armaco geological teams and scientists hurry to deal with this strange phenomenon, but they did not succeed in explaining what happened !
But they agreed on a theory (...) that these are -what so called- burdens of the Earth.
Allah said in the Quran : "And the earth throws up her burdens (from within)" 99.2
Some scientists said this phenomenon will lead to apparency of new materials, which will change the humanity way of life ..."
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Zonbiecool, and *nature for sure
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CrushBugSANDWORM!
critttterOh great, one more thing to worry about.
honkeytonk73Probably the result of oil drilling. Maybe someday Saudi Arabia will collapse in on itself in a giant sink-hole.
Maybe viable that air is being displaced due to drilling? Don't they backfill seawater to replace the oil that they pump out? This might push trapped air or gas.. maybe it just found a way to escape to the surface. Just a guess.
10722says...The video quality is crappy, but I assume it is basically water with air and a bit of sand in it (unavoidable in the desert).
Once you consider the fact there probably isn't much sand being thrown about, then the fact it isn't piling up is not such a miracle.
[I guess this effect could have been caused by the water suggested by honkeytonk and the extreme heating of the ground. The water must have gradually got hotter over a period of time, until enough of it eventually boiled... Perhaps it was then triggered by a lump of sand falling into the hot water/gas mixture at the critical moment...]
CaveBearAir or water are sometimes pumped underground at high pressure in order to move oil deposits around. If the air hits an underground void such as a cave, this pressurized air can be transfered very long distances to an outlet. I've heard of water wells blasting out water over seven miles away from a pressurized oil well. In this case it happened in a cave rich area of New Mexico not too far from the famous Carlsbad Caverns.
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