Mordor on Earth? Magma from the depths of hell is seeping through a mysterious crack

Somewhere in central Panama, there is an almost unearthly phenomenon of an opening going deep into the mantle.

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– Matty

Earth isn’t going to open up its gaping maw, dragonlike, and swallow us all into the inferno anytime soon, but it is exhaling hot breath somewhere under Panama.

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Earth’s core is growing ‘lopsided’ and scientists don’t know why

Exploded view of the innder layers of the Earth

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– Matty

The core is losing heat faster under Indonesia than it is under Brazil, and that’s messing with the seismic waves passing through it.

There’s a mystery brewing at the center of the Earth. Scientists can only see it when they study the seismic waves (subterranean tremors generated by earthquakes) passing through the planet’s solid iron inner core.

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Radial Shrinkage

a comparison of the size of the planet earth on the third day vs. present day

Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.

(Job 9:5-6) KJV

It will help to have an idea of the volume of material in the Earth’s mantle because it appears that Earth has shrunk since it was first created, a process known as radial shrinkage.

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