I have a Hopi friend who lives out near Second Mesa/Leupp area of the reservation. He says there is a place referred to by his tribe as "The Crack" and it is a big fissure that has been there as long as our old people can recall. Scary thing is that this one is very deep. He says you can throw a rock down it and never hear it land.

My Dad was 86 when he passed 2 years ago. But he told me that these cracks or fissures have been happening all of his life. He was a rancher and farmer with a broad knowledge of the land and where he lived and traveled. He lived in the Gila Valley of NM, and the Sulfur Springs Valley of Arizona his entire life. This is a normal, cyclical thing. They eventually fill up and then new ones start. It has ever been thus.

@horsehide3039

6 жыл бұрын

bassfisher_15, true that. Not a lot here to get too excited about, I'm thinking. Literally the way of the world.

@BK-vh3do

6 жыл бұрын

actually the earthquake shake would make more sense in your area because an underground river would have washed the softer soil away and just been an open river otherwise.

@justme7777

5 жыл бұрын

The Earth is just dry. When dirt dries out it cracks. You have to look at things on a bigger scale, not the scale of an ant, the size you are when standing next to those cracks!

@teddowning1029

5 жыл бұрын

You are right. This junk is written to frighten people. I've lived in Arizona for 50+ years. Yes, there is subsidence (look it up) and the mountains are eroding. The issue is the SCALE of a problem. Be critical what you read on youtube..

@b_uppy

5 жыл бұрын

@@justme7777 For a cracks like this the ground underneath actually has to heave or be on an an edge of an underground void. This could just as easily be from fracking, not necessarily from water harvesting as suggested in the video. We have to assume we are not necessarily getting the whole story. University are largely funded by corporate largesse and much research has built in "funder bias".

For the love of god..... how long does it take to explain the reason for a crack in the desert.

@qsource1656

4 жыл бұрын

When it comes to manipulative marketing, a very, VERY long time.

@mattschmidt7569

4 жыл бұрын

I know, I'm dying.

@veganconservative1109

3 жыл бұрын

Wish I'd read your comment within the first few seconds. Good grief, what a long-winded video. They could have said it all in two minutes or less very easily. Making mental note to pass on any future vids from these folk.

@AngryWoodenFork

3 жыл бұрын

This guy reminds me of my old history teacher. He would take a week to explain something that could have been said in 10 min. This video makes me want to bang my head against my desk.

@melodiefrances3898

3 жыл бұрын

Rofl perfect comment!!! SOOOOOO many videos do this. It's one of my pet peeves and one reason I do NOT subscribe to certain channels. You made my day lol

The State has decided to name the fissure Plumber's crack.

@tylerdoggie

3 жыл бұрын

hahahahahahahaha

I saw a crack in northern Arizona that makes this one look like nothing. I understand they're calling it the Grand Canyon. I think it's getting bigger, too. Even more extremely troubling!

@ilikewindows3455

6 жыл бұрын

Taylors Takeoff Bet my ass crack is bigger than it.

The video commentator incorrectly describes a desert as a region with "long, hot summers and mild winters." This is inaccurate. Deserts are only characterized by their lack of rainfall. Many deserts, for example, reside in temperate and even cold regions. The largest desert on earth is Antarctica--a continent that also exhibits the harshest winters on the planet.

@Hj61S827

Жыл бұрын

Exactly, and even Tucson big mountain’s are forested, and has a ski slope.

@polsyg6581

Жыл бұрын

i was gonna say i remember freezing my butt off walking to the bus stop in the az winter heh

Pinal County is not between Tucson and Casa Grande. Casa Grande is in Pinal County. And, these cracks are very common.

@michaelviglianco6121

3 жыл бұрын

The video says they are common.

@johnosman8971

2 жыл бұрын

Is there any chance, that underground reservoirs of water, &/or the lack threefold, because of tapping into these reservoirs by mankind, have anything to do with them???

By the time that guy gets to the point that will be the edge of the ocean. It's a wonder long winded didn't stir up a dust storm.

The earth is very dynamically and constantly changing. Arizona has had cracks appear in places without any wells or farming within many miles for many years, since before large cities and extensive farming. Being a dry desert area it doesn't take much of a tremor of the earth to crack the soil. The Easter 2010 earthquake in Mexico caused ground motion here in Arizona. That could have caused this fissure. My area in Phoenix is hundreds of feet above the Salt river that flows through Phoenix, yet I can't dig anywhere in my yard without running into many river rocks. The ground was obviously lower here at one time with a large and powerful river. Up north we have the Mogollon Rim, a large uplift more than 2000 feet high forming a plateau that extends some 200 miles. Fossils from a sea floor have been found there, indicating that it was below the ocean at one time more than 4000 feet lower. Man was not to blame for any of it. Climate change has been around for millions of years with cycles of heat and cold. One or 2 large volcanic eruptions can spew enough debris in the atmosphere to cause temperatures to drop to extreme lows for many years. We just need to accept that we live on a dynamic living planet...

@texasgina

6 жыл бұрын

zappedguy Arizona has two sites of volcanic activity, Uinkaret and San Francisco Peaks volcanic fields.

@zappedguy

6 жыл бұрын

True, I was going to mention that but I had already written too much. SF Peaks could have activity at any time.

@texasgina

6 жыл бұрын

zappedguy oh wow that's scary

@MrDBarch

6 жыл бұрын

that's right, climate change has been around for a very long time, two things you sadly miss in your claims: 1) humans were not apart of the world back when that climate change was occuring, so it didn't matter to us . it does NOW because it will affect our lives. 2: geological structures and formations in the earth have nothing to do with climate. i have no idea why you suddenly go from discussing geological land formations and then equate it with climate change being around for years.

@zappedguy

6 жыл бұрын

I was only elaborating on my first sentence, "The earth is very dynamically and constantly changing". And climate change is largely due to geological changes.

This is a cyclical thing ~ a normal occurrence in the land. The big ones eventually fill up, but smaller fissures form. My uncle, who was a rancher in Arizona for years b4 he died, told me this. He was also a Geology teacher.

@shanaguilar8352

Жыл бұрын

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A lot of comments here from people who live in, and near this area and understand this is not reported in social media or new information for some. The difference being this phenomenon is new to some countries with huge recent cracks appearing world wide. In addition to huge sinkholes especially here in England, Earthquakes, Volcanic eruptions and coastal water receding. Even large amounts of sea life, all varieties being washed onto shores, all dead. This happened in my town water receded and a mile long sandy beach was covered entirely by dead starfish. This, all of this is not man made and this video is miss leading.

You see a lot of smaller fissures throughout Pinal, Pima, and Maricopa Counties. The irrigation districts take a lot of water out of the ground. Luckily, these cracks are in areas that would never be utilized for any kind of development. It's open space, and that is certainly something Arizona has plenty of - being that only a little over 20 percent of Arizona is actually comprised of privately held land.

I have a place near Florence, which is the "capital" of Pinal County. Small scale versions of these are common in some places. Concrete house slabs now have steel cables through them which are tensioned post pour. They are inside plastic sheaths and are cast in the slab. These keeps the slabs in one piece in case there is a subsidence under the house later.

Between Casa Granda and Tuscon is where limestone from a dissapearing aquafer is blasted to extract and create portland cement. You can feel the ground shake when the blasting starts.

"The blame for it _lays_ squarely ..." No: correct English is - "The blame for it _lies_ squarely ..." This has been a public service announcement.

@frybry01

5 жыл бұрын

No, it's... proper English, not "correct English".

@marshalllhiepler

5 жыл бұрын

Just like in the advertisement industry, it is important to disregard proper english to avoid using the word"lies" in one's drizzle.

@ilikewindows3455

4 жыл бұрын

Us Americans are known to sorta fuck up our words, especially here in the southern states

@markmartindale7215

2 жыл бұрын

@@ilikewindows3455 jumping on the grammar bandwagon here; it's "we Americans not us Americans". ;^)

I have land in Pinal County and the fissure is west of my property by about four miles as the crow flies on State Land near Silverbell Estates near the Pinal/Pima County line and near the Ironwood National Monument. The fissure development theory you propose as the Aquifer has dropped due to the long drought in the past which this year seems to be over. The farmers may have caused this fissure by taking too much out of the aquifer before the Colorado River Irrigation into the State of AZ for our farmers. It helps to not only deliver water but acts as a catchment system when it rains. In fact it's raining right now in the desert, and it is beautiful! Nice the drought maybe coming to an end. It time for me to take another hike and see it again since all this rain we've been having in 2018.

When I was in the scouts, we used to find these cracks around Casa Grande mountain. Never found one several miles long, but many were several hundred yards and could be 16’ or more deep in areas. We would spend hours exploring and playing in them...that was thirty years ago.

@e.s.l5861

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, as a former Casa grande resident I’ve seen those as well. I used to do a hike around the mountain by McCartney and over field for exercise. I seem to recall seeing those there but it’s been 10 years since I lived there

Is Arizona's natural way of moving farther away from California

@phillipthornton515

6 жыл бұрын

Matthew Gilliland haha that is funny

@LABallin247

6 жыл бұрын

Matthew Gilliland Dumb ass it's actually getting closer to California.

@moneymane9686

6 жыл бұрын

Lol

@melikey3758

6 жыл бұрын

LABallin247 its a joke, dumbass

@cranium33333

6 жыл бұрын

Matthew Gilliland yes!!

Would love to go through it with a Metal Detector! Copper, gold, and silver, oh my!

In college we learned that the area near Casa Grande has sunk over 50ft because of groundwater pumping. Groundwater is largely unregulated in Arizona but all the surface water is.

We live in Tucson Arizona. It is odd that this crack has not made news headlines anywhere. Not in Phoenix or Pinal or Pima counties. Most of the underground aquifer water was used up by the mid 90's. That is when Arizona called on the CAP for Colorado River water to be diverted to out state and others which have no potable water. I wonder why the AZGS is so quiet about this? I very much doubt there is any way to stop this process which has probably been going on for over 30 years now.

@Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88

6 жыл бұрын

It's been brought up. It isn't a media sensation that gets people's attention though. I'm a Phoenix native of nearly 40 yrs and have heard of things as far back as the mid 2000's.

@JJDigitalartStudio

6 жыл бұрын

I admit I no longer watch television or news on TV but I do read the paper everyday and have never seen this in any articles. I guess since no one is in immediate harm and there is nothing to be done about it is a non subject.

@johnpike9612

6 жыл бұрын

That's just tree hugger BS told to the media to scare everyone. While it's true that in some SMALL areas of the state water is hard to get, for the majority of the state we couldn't pump it out as fast as it replenishes if we wanted to. I just moved a rig off a well that had water at 40' and another that pumped 3000 gals a min with NO drop after pumping for 2 weeks straight. We drill 3k/min wells all over the west regularly and 1-2k in the central valley.

@JJDigitalartStudio

6 жыл бұрын

Perhaps all this water depletion of the aquifer is causing the ground to lose its base. Subsidence is not a myth.

@doxiegirll1997

6 жыл бұрын

I definitely agree its been going on so long that no one really thinks about it. And closer to Tucson there are not that many actual working farms, just more people. I remember seeing the land that were condemned because of subsidence

Well, this is a start and gives the meaning of that song called, "Ocean Front Property in Arizona" by George Strait. 😆😃...

@semajbi2316

6 жыл бұрын

Ernie Morin No buddy You need to learn to swim When you do I'll See you down in Arizona bay

@stirlingsilver8880

6 жыл бұрын

Ernie Morin supposedly the Hopi believe the reservation will be beach front... Crazy

@susanbolton6215

6 жыл бұрын

Ernie Morin. They already HAVE a Yacht Club in Quartzsite AZ!

@stonedfacekilla

6 жыл бұрын

SeMaJ BI awesome tool reference

Not only is the surface of the land impacted, so are subsurface aquifers. Due to groundwater extraction from the underground materials, the overburden collapsed because the pressure due to ground waters was removed. It is the aquifer(s) that collapsed first in the subsurface. That is how aquifers are impacted, they are damaged now, actually collapsed. So now, much less water can be extracted - the wells are running dry.

SKIP TO 4:58 stick around for about 20 seconds and find a better video.

@ilikewindows3455

5 жыл бұрын

👍👍

@marshalllhiepler

4 жыл бұрын

Always somebody CRACKIN' jokes.

@natedellia7993

4 жыл бұрын

Thanx man

@Originalxlander

4 жыл бұрын

This should be pinned to first comment

Praying for the safety, protection and healing of my daughter, her husband and 2 children.

@shueii518

6 жыл бұрын

Warren Lightning dont worry this happened last year

Kevin Bacon says it is probably Tremors.

@futurewormfood6863

6 жыл бұрын

radrickdavis They are called Graboids and they stole my pogo stick!

@waynesudoski871

6 жыл бұрын

Fuck ya! Comment of the day 😂👏👏👏

@undeadOtter

6 жыл бұрын

radrickdavis Chuck Norris punched the ground

@vtown7o774

6 жыл бұрын

Casey Rodgers yes, graboids. I believe they just made another flick recently. It's probably not good. I only like the original with Kevin Bacon.

@AS-uy9gn

6 жыл бұрын

When you see a flying fart-blaster you know that you are screwed.

Pinal County is NOT between Casa Grand & Tucson. CG is IN Pinal County,a county that also extends north from CG encompassing the Superstition Mountains & Apache Junction. A next door neighbor to Mesa. Also part of the Phoenix basin.

The underground aquifer below the Tucson valley has dropped hundreds of feet over the last half century. Avra Valleys wells are nearly tapped dry. The few tropical storms & monsoons cannot effectively replenish the ground. Sinkholes, cracks and depressions are in part explaining these things yet are not entirely conclusive in geographical survey findings.

I called these people up last week and asked to investigate why the wind blows really hard sometimes. I watched a large styrofoam cup get thrown across my front yard like it was nothing. And I'm still having the nightmares!!

All this rambling could have been shortened to 1 min! Just get to the point! Good grief I had to stop watching! Bunch of rambling on save your time just skip this video

@kirkc9643

6 жыл бұрын

It's not even a video

@TinoSoto

6 жыл бұрын

So what was the cause? I stopped paying attention after 1 minute

@noelrenteria6554

6 жыл бұрын

What happens next will shock you.

@craiglist7363

6 жыл бұрын

I feel duped. As I write this I can't wait to select "proof that the grand canyon is ancient pyramids".

@z0rb278

6 жыл бұрын

Y'all shut the fuck up and stop bitching

To understand why this has occured think of a moist sand pie, you leave it out and not let water go near it for a week or so, if you were to look at it daily you'd notice cracks appear, its caused by lack of water/ moisture, going by the sand pie method.

Arid wasteland? I love how everyone who's never lived or been too Arizona, just assumes we all live in some giant, lifeless, desert, wasteland.... We do have a huge city you know, and forest believe it or not... Haha

@nikpodojil6315

4 жыл бұрын

I live in Phoenix, Arizona, and I will agree that it might as well be a wasteland when it's 125 degrees outside with 80 percent humidity thanks to the monsoons.

@Greenthumbn1576

4 жыл бұрын

Right lol

@amberdevore9497

3 жыл бұрын

arid waste land my ass

@Viking_6_3

3 жыл бұрын

Sooo, just checked Google Earth... and its no where near as green as say... Florida. Or Wisconsin. Or Nebraska. Id say its a wasteland too.

@amberdevore9497

3 жыл бұрын

@@Viking_6_3 I am by no means saying it's a rainforest, but by saying arizona is a wasteland makes it sound like there is nothing in the area for hundreds of miles. Ofc florida would be greener because it's a completely different climate.

The explanation given was exactly what I assumed caused it. This is similar to all the sinkholes in Florida. We're pumping the aquafiers dry.

Wow, a giant crack in the ground in Arizona, never seen that before...

Pinal County AZ is 5,374 mi². Ya think someone could provide the coords for this big, scary crack, that after on and off residency in the Sonoran Desert for 44 years, I, nor anyone I know, have never heard of this (or any other, [except the really BIG one north of Flagstaff] 2-mile long crack.) So what are its coordinates? I would love to go see it! Don't do GPS? OK, so how many miles from what closest city or town? In wht direction? Don't know that? OK, what highway to what turnoff, and how far from where I park, and in which direction? Not yet? OK, what exit on I-10 (or I-8 if closer to the crack), and then which state Hwy to the nearest place to hike to the crack? Seven minutes to say, "Hey, look there's a crack in the desert. I am told it is in Pinal County, Arizona, but I don't know where. Cool photo tho', huh?"

I have known about this for over 45 years. It is obvious that they are draining the aquifer of the Victoria Valley. Out in the middle between Coolidge and Casa Grande, the alluvial dirt is around 5,000 feet deep. A big crack opened up close to Picacho Peek and another near Mesa, Arizona.

I live in Arizona and never heard of this. I wonder where his facts are coming from. Easy to blame man for anything these days.

I thought Arizona had a meth issue, not a crack problem?!

@NickolasFaz

6 жыл бұрын

Lmaoooo

@alisonhowton5506

6 жыл бұрын

Ok. That was funny! 😂

@summerg8597

6 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣😪😪😪

@1chrisarah

6 жыл бұрын

now …….that IS VERY FUNNY!!!!…..made me smile.....

@joshimitsu96

6 жыл бұрын

Ha 👍

Water use by Phoenix is killing the plant life in all the surrounding area as far east as Payson and Globe, and dramatic drought this year is adding to the problem. Huge swaths of dead and dying scrub oak, juniper, manzanita, pinyon and ponderosa pine and cottonwood can be seen for hundreds of miles throughout the region, and it's a scary tinderbox right now.

My wife knows a person who's whole home subdivision is cracking and falling apart because of this problem, the houses were only months old

More important, the loss of water is much more due to the corporation s that are copper mining without regard to the loss of water for farming and normal drinking water.

@Nobody-Nowhere-USA

5 жыл бұрын

Julie Chlarson what complete hog wash!

@swizzleproxi4810

4 жыл бұрын

Yes your right, this should be regulated, mother nature giving signals out for all to see, telling on the cooperation basically.

I have watched the earth subsided over my 25 years living here. Like many states Arizona has been pumping all the ground water out to support the human population. That is what happened to all the surface river water here for irrigation. This is what happened in California and many states that use artisan water.

I lived right on the San Andreas in high desert of palmdale. In 1992 after the landers earthquake I went down to San Bernardino desert and there was a crack about 40 miles long, maybe 20 foot drop, rode our dirt bikes half a day couldn't find the end.....

we need paul harvey. and the rest of the story.

@ToddRickey

5 жыл бұрын

It is the aquifer(s) that collapsed first in the subsurface. That is how aquifers are impacted, they are damaged now, actually collapsed. So now, much less water can be extracted - the wells are running dry.

I can’t wait for 2 grand canyons here. We are just gonna have to wait a few millions years for this one to get to the same depth as the Grand Canyon

These cracks and subsidences have actually been going on since the late 80's early 90s. In avira valley and south of old Tucson. Several people lost their properties because of it one road was actually closed. This is just a continuation of that. All from over use of ground water. It was hoped that the salt river project would aleviat this. Many of the farms in avira valley are no longer farmed due to the lack of water

@hikewithmike4673

6 жыл бұрын

debra parkhurst overdevelopment is causing it

@doxiegirll1997

6 жыл бұрын

Hike with Mike I don't disagree, in the case of those closer in towards Tucson its both

@doxiegirll1997

6 жыл бұрын

Connie Wolf just a typo I didn't catch is all

It’s called high desert. It’s either an aquifers that is getting low or a underground mineshaft that collapsed. They are quite common in those areas.

It’s crazy that I live in Phoenix Arizona and haven’t heard a single headline, person talk about it, not even a tweet.

At 5:00 he stops rambling and tells you what it is.

@trialmx

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Videos babbling on, meandering to the point are becoming too common.

@josegassolina6797

6 жыл бұрын

Interesting info but this dude makes it so hard to sit through the whole video

It’s frightening to have learned just how many cracks have been cropping up these past few years-in Africa, New Zealand, Antarctica, and Mexico and other places...and sinkholes are all over the earth, too! It’s extremely troubling...

@jesuadiaz

6 жыл бұрын

Also in hawaii

@tedwilliams3076

6 жыл бұрын

Main Street Boxer you know many people will say oh this means jesus is coming

@yourignoranceistheirpower.6307

6 жыл бұрын

Carolyn Nunes

@warrenlightning8137

6 жыл бұрын

Main Street Boxer - With alot of help from CERN, HARRP, DARRPA, FRACKING and sonar & Electric Magnetic Pulse use.

@achanwahn

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, nothing stays the same. Whether humans change the world or not, it's still moving and changing. It has to. But it's def important to pay afternoon attention to them

That damn squirrel again!

@IamNotaTeslaBot

5 жыл бұрын

Ferrari Scuderia facts

I live in the town of Maricopa, right by this. I have an idea based on what my geologist grandpa has shared with me but I'm no geologist myself. There is a huge dormant volcano just to the South east of me, and there are smaller fissures popping up all over the area between my house and said dormant volcano, so personally I would lean more towards shifting surface dirt because of lava movement in the tubes. Volcano is dormant but the lava could still be flowing around the area under and around it. Maybe.

This seems to be a problem here in southern Arizona San Tan Valley Homes are being damaged & some red tagged due to sinkholes & fishers opening up in the ground. When I was looking for a house to buy a year ago here in southern Arizona we were thinking of San Tan Valley our realtor told us about the grond problem so we ended up buying a home in Casa Grande now I'm not so sure that was such a good idea after seeing this video. I guess time will tell wait & see what happens over the next few years.. Nice vid thanks for the info...

I think it’s crazy that they blame the farmers out in the middle of no where when there are golf courses running rampant in AZ, not even considering the swimming pools and the influx of new people.

@hikewithmike4673

6 жыл бұрын

Kathy Gist amen kathy...the same thing is happening in Florida the huge retirement golf communities are drying up all the swamps and the habitat destruction is seriously depleting endangered wildlife!

@filonin2

6 жыл бұрын

+Kathy Gist I think it's crazy that you think scientists didn't take that into account. Compare land area of golf course vs farms then get back to me. Never mind, I already did. There are 26 million acres of farm in Arizona agriculture.az.gov/sites/default/files/AZDA_GuideToAZAg-R5.pdf . All of the United States has 1.5 million acres of golf courses. www.usga.org/content/dam/usga/pdf/Water%20Resource%20Center/how-much-water-does-golf-use.pdf All of the golf courses in the US use less water than Arizona farms. Critical thinking makes the world less confusing.

@kathygist6488

6 жыл бұрын

Most of the farmland in AZ is in the southwest corner of the state, not where these cracks are forming in the central and eastern part of the state. The irrigation water for those farms comes from the Colorado River, not from underground water. If you really know AZ, you will know how many golf courses are there and how much water they use. I know they recycle some of that water, but most of that water “pumped from underground aquifers” is evaporated into the 100+ degree heat. And, as I said in my original post, there are thousands of swimming pools (using water pumped from underground) that are evaporating precious water daily. Don’t blame water loss in AZ exclusively on farmers! BTW, I am not a farmer, nor a golfer, nor a swimming pool owner.

@gokermitsewerside358

6 жыл бұрын

They blame farmers because they are the ones pumping water out of the earth also fracking idk if arizona has oilfields im from cali and we have a ton. Taking something out of the ground and not filling it back up will leave empty pockets and damage the integrity of the land. But oh well you only live once and people need mass abundances pf mpney to fuel war campaigns and prisons.

@julesbjeweled7891

6 жыл бұрын

Kathy Gist. I can't help laughing at these comments as I'm caught in the middle. My dad built golf courses and my husband is a farmer in Az & Ca, lol!

5:00 the ground is subsiding because the farmers are drawing so much water from the aquifer but you had to wait five minutes to find out

The slowest earthquake ever 😂😂😂

@sophierobinson2738

2 жыл бұрын

No, that's in Turkey. They had a 50 year earthquake that they didn't notice.

Can you cite the research that determined the cause, please. Sounds like speculation and theory to me.

@rickyfukenjohns

6 жыл бұрын

Jay Bee it's legit. I live near it

@adon2424

6 жыл бұрын

Jay Bee , that's right. It is all hearsay without substantiated data. It does not look like it is subsiding, it looks like it is spreading apart.

Nearly 5 minutes of round talking. 4:58 for the cause of the crack.

@bethbartlett5692

6 жыл бұрын

Fulkrom Then stop clicking on it or stop whining like an Adolescent!

@ilovenoodles7483

6 жыл бұрын

Fulkrom Thank you.

@ravenr876

6 жыл бұрын

Fulkrom ; lmao

@sabinacle1529

5 жыл бұрын

Fulkrom thank you!

Arizona is geologically active - they have several small earthquakes every year - this could be caused by earthquake activity, or more likely by subduction - land "sinking" in on itself - losing elevation - creating a bowl-shaped depression - because the groundwater is being pumped out faster than it's being replenished by rain .. this is happening all over Southern Arizona, because there are more people than the desert can support .. Sierra Vista, south-east of Tucson, has been subducting for about 20 years ..

I live in South Eastern Arizona and I notice that small cracks fork in the ground but I have never heard of this happening.

I used to have dreams of this when I was like 4 years old.

@brendanwood1540

2 жыл бұрын

Did anything else happen after?

South Eastern Arizona ---Sulfur Springs Valley ground water wells started (1940's) at 20 feet. 36 inch bores for big-ag have sucked the water table down to 200 feet. That is the definition of fossil water with a predictable terminal date.

It's probably linked either to Yellowstone or California fissures. So glad I moved from there!

Farmers and ranchers have been doing their thing for hundreds of years, and never used up the water. Maybe people should start asking more questions about the bottled water industry, soda industry, and energy drink industry. Not to mention states and local municipalities diverting water from natural waterways.

Here come the crazies protesting farming....

@MelissaBrownapt215

6 жыл бұрын

Dorian Payne - Nope. Moderation is key. For example: I cut back on beef consumption to almost none, treating it as a delicacy rather than a staple in my diet. If most did this (even halving), we could radically curtail mistreatmeat of cows (warehouse conditions) and reduce greenhouse emissions as companies would have to cut back production due to lower demand. Cows could return to living out of doors and milkfeeding their young. Most of us would benefit healthwise as well and save a ton of money, too. Farming is good. Excess is bad.

@RockMonger

6 жыл бұрын

Apt215 Melissa Brown this is from farming. Not ranching. This is from growing vegetables.

@anthonyrobertson7062

6 жыл бұрын

Dorian Payne I guess we better stop eating plants also. Hmmm, this is getting to be a problem now.

@doxiegirll1997

6 жыл бұрын

No protesting just plain hard facts, too much extensive farming because of the long growing season. Plus drought, plus large city all using up the same aquifers. Simple math it all equils no agua. I live in northeastern Az. We stress water conservation even though we live in the mountains we still are considered in a drought.

@michaelvialpando1194

6 жыл бұрын

Yes because look at all the farms near the crack...you are sharp!

Sure blame the farmers, First look at the wasted water in PHX

@doxiegirll1997

6 жыл бұрын

Dave Amburgey Actually it was started by major farming but that dropped back due to the drout., and the city of Tucson. This was before they got the main part of the central az water project done. (This is a canal moving water from the salt river and over to California)

@heidin2059

6 жыл бұрын

Dave Amburgey I

@ktpinnacle

6 жыл бұрын

I don't think that SRP water is delivered to CA.

@ohwell2790

6 жыл бұрын

Dave, I live in a trailer park. The owners still insist that I water the trees and other plants on the lot I rent that do not belong in the desert. Pouring water on the ground and not growing anything to eat. Stupid and stupider, if I don't, they threaten me, so guess what? I pour water on the ground. 7 days a week 24 hours a day. SAD! Last summer the owners bought 150 trees from Oregon and planted them and guess what, they all died, guess they do not know the soil here is different from Oregon. I have no answer when they tell me yes they do belong here. So, I just pay my rent and pour water on the ground. Oh, well.

@keithgood3419

6 жыл бұрын

Connie Wolf It's true and I think golf courses are a waste of water when there isn't an abundance of water to be used!! But.. they only use a very small amount compared to farmers!! There are around 26 MILLION acresif farm land being watered there and the are only about 1.5 million acres of golf course IN THE WHOLE USA!! I know that people and animals need that food that they are producing so I'm not playing blame, just pointing out who's using more and that golf courses aren't what's making the ground open up!!!

If you view Arazona by airial view it looks as though it were once possibly an ocean or huge lake floor and the water that once had been there may have been rerouted (possibly by man) as it wouldn't be the first time man has thought they knew better than our creators design of this earth. I mean after all look where the Whitehouse sits and look up the lands history. Man thought a huge Sort of White building would look better there than the once beautiful water that once flowed through that land.

@gabrielle6158

2 жыл бұрын

yep! I know Sedona once had an ocean and was a tropical forest area.

I've got to say I learned more about a crack in the ground then I ever want to know,thankyou for that..

Casa Grande is in Pinal County. Tucson is in Pima County. Please get the information correct.

@jmackinjersey1

6 жыл бұрын

They can't get anything right in this video, because these fissures have been happening all across AZ for hundreds of years.

Looks just like Beggar's Canyon back home!

@Scott__G

6 жыл бұрын

whiteknightcat I used to bulls-eye womp rats in my T-16 Skyhopper there. They’re not much bigger than 2 meters.

That has been around for years I remember seeing it when I was 10 and I'm 40 now and my uncle showed it to me when hunting and it was there when he was a kid

I was in skull valley when I had a huge explosion/earth quake under the trailer that same day that crack opened up. I heard the rumble head south. Shortly after that I moved out of the red zone. By the way the salty hot water in quartsite Az is bad . The water comes out if 9,600 ft well. Hot water in mesqite Nevada to.. You could take a hot shower just with the cold water line. No joke. All along the fault lines there seems to be this problem. Something is going to happen .

"Honey the man on the tube says we done cracked Arizona" "I'll pick some glue up on my way home"

Its because there are too many people in my state. We are a desert and in a drought we cant support all the people moving here. STOP COMING HERE fix your own state.

@DeniseHedberg66

6 жыл бұрын

jh j California is getting too big, thats where they are coming from! Complain to them!

@stevestarr5968

6 жыл бұрын

You're absolutely right, I'm an AZ NATIVE who belongs here and has paid his dues, people need to stop moving here, there's not enough water that's all there's to it

@laduke9876

6 жыл бұрын

I have heard ignorance from the young and old, but I have heard intelligence also from the young that would put so called educated people with degrees to shame. Your silliness in these dangerous time's show your fear, and I am so sorry, stay safe and live well. And pray!

@rayunseitig6367

6 жыл бұрын

so build a wall. I know of which you speak.

@rayunseitig6367

6 жыл бұрын

up the taxes for newcomers. State income tax. Very expensive car registration, and insurance and do a smog check for cars. for a start.

Same thing happend around the San tan mountains when I was a kid 55 years ago, they said it was ground water being used.

You forgot to talk about the major cause of the reduction of the water table; not agriculture; but mining.

The lesser known "Bland Canyon".

Cracks In Arizona, California. Africa. Something going on with the planet earth right now..loud booms, lights In sky. They are all scurrying like squirrels get ready for winter, but instead they blasting and drilling underground, building train tunnels, cities, D.U.M.B.s, malls, theaters, mansions and condos. And they all selling out. And they seem to be speeding things up as if they know something and the 99% of us poor will not make the VIP list.

@ilikewindows3455

6 жыл бұрын

truthers life Oh well I guess, we're going to die eventually.

@charlenenorman3644

6 жыл бұрын

truthers life No one will make it,

@TheContingencyPlan

6 жыл бұрын

Plane, not a planet.

@mischifanderley4707

6 жыл бұрын

truthers life the population is growing exponentially, the earth won't be able to handle it. Then well.... it might look more like Mars

@JT-ow6qj

6 жыл бұрын

Cher Anderson birth rates are going down...

Not just caused by sucking up ground water but also mining both past and present

Their is a lot more going on here than what we are being told, I honestly believe that we got to give ourselves a chance before we no longer have this chance these phenomena around the world are warning signs. Find who you are inside and out love yourself and love others, forgivness to yourself and to others, what are we willing to do for ourselves and for others this is the biggest test any of us will face. Much love

The rest of America is trying to get away from Commiefornia.😂

@michaelschuenemann3505

6 жыл бұрын

Commiefornia were the Hollywood Elite resides !

Have you bought your beach front property on the east side of it?

back in 1986 i found one down by elsworth and elliot rds. we used to junp it on dirt bikes.sometimes we would go down in it. maybe 20 or 30 foot deep and 10 foot wide

I'm a researcher, I always take time to find out the facts! You do your research better!

This fissure makes wonder if there going to end up with a new grand canyon

@aadityarajbhattarai46

3 жыл бұрын

Is grand canyon a result of river erosion or earthquake??

@lyllianpilcher

3 жыл бұрын

@@aadityarajbhattarai46 both,

@melodiefrances3898

3 жыл бұрын

Um, the Colorado River had just a little bit to do with the Grand Canyon ...

He lost me at "the blame is on man."

I lived in NM when I was a kid 65 years ago there where cracks like this everywhere

I had a big crack in my windshield once. It got smaller and smaller and finally closed up.

a couple of years ago I was driving in the Sonora desert close to the border where that video was taken, but I was in the Mexican side of the border. Well I ran out of gas I pulled over the shoulder of the road and parked the car I knew where I was the closest town was like 5 miles away I decided to take a short cut through the desert I walked and walked until I came on a crack just like that it was over a couple of miles long I couldn't go around it or jump over it because it was over 10 feet wide I had never seen something like that in my life and this is the first time I see it on video or hear about another crack just like the one I saw.

@DaveBaggs

6 жыл бұрын

Ralph Gastelum Sonoran not Sonora

@Jah_Rastafari_ORIG

6 жыл бұрын

Ralph Gastelum I'm relieved to see you managed at least _one_ period in that giant run on sentence of yours...

@LeaLogsdon

6 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile, Jah Rastafari, you left out a necessary comma, a hyphen, and STILL managed to end your own sentence with an ellipsis instead of a period. Hypocrites shouldn't point fingers.

@mannynunez9361

6 жыл бұрын

Jah Rastafari but it's so fun to read as a run on sentence. It cracks me up!

@frankwhalen9371

5 жыл бұрын

Jah Rastafari o

They are pumping millions of gallons of groundwater out of the aquifers to water alfalfa fields owned by the Saudi’s. Much of AZ is in a drought I expect to hear about more sink holes and ground splits in the future followed by extreme water shortages for some communities.

@stubs1227

6 жыл бұрын

kodiakpredator yeah because of liberal La. LMAO

@johnpike9612

6 жыл бұрын

You really shouldn't believe everything you hear on the news and internet. I'm a commercial well driller and have worked for almost every farm owner in all of Pinal, Maricopa, Pima, and Yuma counties. I have not yet seen a single field owned by any "Saudis". Most are family farms handed down thru the generations now on their third and fourth generation. Some are new owners from California. And a small few are new starts. FYI, most of the alfalfa that is exported goes to China to be turned into pellets and resold in pet stores and feed stores here in the USA.

@markdaniel8740

6 жыл бұрын

Connie Wolf queen hildebeast is a Democrat. Nazi Pelosi and mad Maxine sell our America every day. The richest people in Congress are Democrats, and most managed to get so rich while making less than $300,000 per year.

@abbashemyaza1244

6 жыл бұрын

kodiakpredator What about identical cracks in Africa and Mexico that have opened up suddenly?

@charlespoirier8527

6 жыл бұрын

kodiakpredator ya I heard how the saudis keep drilling there wells further down making it hard for other framers because of the financial cost to keep drilling Deeper .

A hole has opened up in Arizona, you say? Are the police looking into it?

@southernbelle2039

5 жыл бұрын

Michael MacDonell. Lol

@BlueHopi144

5 жыл бұрын

Of course not .....not their training

@thelaxman59

5 жыл бұрын

1 of the largest underground aquifers is right in that part of Arizona and has almost dried up which leaves a large void under the area.. The same happens in Florida as the underground water is used up they get sink holes and Arizona will get the same and soon then you think. Water will be the more expensive then oil or natural gas in the near future. We are already fighting wars over water supplies

@alienagent8819

5 жыл бұрын

Earth may split in two.

@albakreuk5830

5 жыл бұрын

Michael MacDonell they probably should b. Old abandoned escape tunnels from a local banks or casino's. All those bank notes, gold bars & casino chips that never been recovered lol.

Desert means that annual rainfall is below a certain percentage. There are cold deserts, furthermore, there are forests in SoAZ and places in Cochise and Pima Counties get snow.

"More over it is what's under the crack you should be worried about." Mole people? "Holes." You can't trick me.

Peter Griffin is wondering if that's his ass lol.

They pump water up so much that the ground shrinks. Just get a bulldozer and fill it in if need be. It would be fun to rapell down into it and inspect the ground layers. It will suck up water from creeks flowing across it, so the aquifer has a way to replenish itself.

I'm from casa Grande and this crack has been there since long before I was in high school cause I've see it while riding dirt bikes..

It's the tectonic plates, their moving. (slowly).

@MrDBarch

6 жыл бұрын

There is NO edge of a tectonic plate running through arizona. the closest one is the pacific plate boundary and it runs alongside the west coast.

Farmers aren't the only ones pumping groundwater. Municipalities do as well, and on a grand scale. Tucson is draining the Tanque Verde valley from very deep wells, that cause a void in the water table that then sucks the water from the shalower aquifer. The Tanque Verde valley is lush and green and has huge cottonwood trees, but they are dying/dead now. We used to live out there on acreage and had a private well, that went dry because of it. The reason these stories don't make the news is because the powerful don't want the truth to be known. They want development which brings them more wealth and power.

@rdc7622

6 жыл бұрын

Very true. The Tanque Verde wash used to have huge green trees for miles. Also water that ran ran almost year round for a couple miles from reddington pass. It was awesome.

@justme7777

5 жыл бұрын

How dare they grow good for the people of the world.

We have alot of those... Same thing happen on the Navajo reservation by leupp a huge crack opened up and nothing happened.

Arroyos form all the time in the desert too, then they- eventually- fill in. Maybe that's the case with these cracks also.