A Two Mile Crack Has Opened Up In Arizona - And Experts Warn That It’s Only Going To Get Bigger

[@drums911]

So here we are six years on. Has this actually gotten worse? Stayed the same? Has it even been satisfactorily explained?

[@Watch_Jojo]

Great question! Over the past six years, the situation with the crack in Arizona has actually continued to evolve. While there has been more research into these types of fissures, experts are still concerned about their potential growth, especially in areas where groundwater depletion and soil erosion are ongoing issues. These cracks tend to form in regions where water is extracted faster than it's replenished, causing the ground to shift. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been fully resolved yet, and without significant changes in how we manage natural resources, it could indeed get worse over time.

[@horsehide3039]

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]

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

[@BK-vh3do]

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]

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]

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]

@@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".

[@elfedowen6452]

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

[@qsource1656]

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

[@mattschmidt7569]

I know, I'm dying.

[@veganconservative1109]

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]

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]

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

[@diannenivin924]

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.

[@ssholepunisher69]

Grand Canyon.

[@zappedguy]

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]

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

[@zappedguy]

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

[@texasgina]

zappedguy oh wow that's scary

[@MrDBarch]

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]

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.

[@dapabur1]

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

[@tylerdoggie]

hahahahahahahaha

[@Jeffstone17]

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]

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

[@polsyg6581]

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

[@vertihvost7675]

He overheated

[@pacificircle]

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]

Taylors Takeoff Bet my ass crack is bigger than it.

[@patchesohoulihan2009]

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

[@phillipthornton515]

Matthew Gilliland haha that is funny

[@LABallin247]

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

[@moneymane9686]

Lol

[@melikey3758]

LABallin247 its a joke, dumbass

[@cranium33333]

Matthew Gilliland yes!!

[@kevintewey1157]

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

[@fubarmofo6969]

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]

It's not even a video

[@TinoSoto]

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

[@noelrenteria6554]

What happens next will shock you.

[@craiglist7363]

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

[@zorb.z0rb]

Y'all shut the fuck up and stop bitching

[@Deep_Dish]

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

[@NickolasFaz]

Lmaoooo

[@alisonhowton5506]

Ok. That was funny! 😂

[@summerg8597]

🤣🤣🤣🤣😪😪😪

[@1chrisarah]

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

[@joshimitsu96]

Ha 👍

[@johnnysmoke612]

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.

[@mollygail]

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]

❤️

[@radrickdavis]

Kevin Bacon says it is probably Tremors.

[@futurewormfood6863]

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

[@waynesudoski871]

Fuck ya! Comment of the day 😂👏👏👏

[@undeadOtter]

radrickdavis Chuck Norris punched the ground

[@vtown7o774]

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]

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

[@johnklar5131]

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

[@michaelviglianco6121]

The video says they are common.

[@johnosman8971]

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???

[@kathygist6488]

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]

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]

+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]

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]

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]

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!

[@DieFlabbergast]

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

[@frybry01]

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

[@marshalllhiepler]

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

[@ilikewindows3455]

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

[@markmartindale7215]

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

[@TheKsurf]

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

[@ilikewindows3455]

👍👍

[@marshalllhiepler]

Always somebody CRACKIN' jokes.

[@natedellia7993]

Thanx man

[@Originalxlander]

This should be pinned to first comment

[@bosstwind7010]

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

[@trialmx]

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

[@josegassolina6797]

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

[@juliechlarson9660]

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]

Julie Chlarson what complete hog wash!

[@swizzleproxi4810]

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

[@onceuponatime2927]

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.

[@DaveBaggs]

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.

[@maxhughes5687]

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.

[@mischifanderley4707]

I've lived in Quern Creek AZ since 1984. There's been fissures like this in Queen Creek way before this. I first saw one in mid '80's. Our old property in Queen Creek would get these holes, we'd fill them in with dirt and they'd come back. In the housing boom, home developers were strongly warned not to develop in certain areas in Queen Creek now called San Tan Valley. But they did anyway, and many homes had problems related to this "sinking of dirt" and fissures.

[@warrenlightning8137]

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

[@shueii518]

Warren Lightning dont worry this happened last year

[@AlphaCompRepair]

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

[@bethbartlett5692]

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

[@ilovenoodles7483]

Fulkrom Thank you.

[@ravenr876]

Fulkrom ; lmao

[@sabinacle1529]

Fulkrom thank you!

[@robertzalaker4775]

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

[@julianfell666]

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.

[@JJDigitalartStudio]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@doxiegirll1997]

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

[@aking032962]

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.

[@danharmon8763]

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!!

[@nateburk8952]

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]

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

[@IamthePodo]

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

[@IamthePodo]

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]

Right lol

[@amberdevore9497]

arid waste land my ass

[@Viking_6_3]

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]

@@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.

[@texmex658]

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

[@semajbi2316]

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

[@stirlingsilver8880]

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

[@susanbolton6215]

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

[@stonedfacekilla]

SeMaJ BI awesome tool reference

[@anniegaddis5240]

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

[@FireShine-ss4sb]

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.

[@carolynnunes3922]

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]

Also in hawaii

[@tedwilliams3076]

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

[@yourignoranceistheirpower.6307]

Carolyn Nunes

[@warrenlightning8137]

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

[@achanwahn]

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

[@RockMonger]

Here come the crazies protesting farming....

[@MelissaBrownapt215]

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]

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

[@anthonyrobertson7062]

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

[@doxiegirll1997]

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]

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

[@robertlyman9789]

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

[@kurtwicklund3218]

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.

[@bodielazio7616]

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

[@kenh3961]

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.

[@sayittomyfaceidareyou8629]

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]

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

[@charlenenorman3644]

truthers life No one will make it,

[@TheContingencyPlan]

Plane, not a planet.

[@mischifanderley4707]

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]

Cher Anderson birth rates are going down...

[@WesleyAPEX]

So every climate and weather anomaly is man made now? Even cracks in the ground?

[@wifighostcruiser9665]

You must have the worst attention span and comprehension in the world. It's about using up all the groundwater and leaving a huge cavity way under the ground, it has nothing to do with weather. Holy cow, it's stupid was lighter than air you would be stuck to the ceiling.

[@wifighostcruiser9665]

@@MrWolfsDen holy cow, you get more stupid every time you say something oh, now you're a conspiracy theorist besides being stupid..... 🤔.... I guess that's kind of the same thing. It's a desert, ideut, when you drain an underground aquifer and you saw the water nothing's going to support it and it's not going to fill back up fast enough. I can't believe I'm actually trying to explain something to you LOL

[@michaelviglianco6121]

This wasn't about a climate or weather anomaly. It was about a crack in the ground. Which is pretty obvious if you even read the title

[@sophierobinson2738]

Sage Bear It's called reality. When you use up all the water, every dries out and crumbles.

[@sophierobinson2738]

WIFIGHOST CRUISER Chem trails, etc. People like him are what's most of the problem in this country.

[@ToddRickey]

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.

[@doxiegirll1997]

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]

debra parkhurst overdevelopment is causing it

[@doxiegirll1997]

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

[@doxiegirll1997]

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

[@daveamburgey9937]

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

[@doxiegirll1997]

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]

Dave Amburgey I

[@ktpinnacle]

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

[@ohwell2790]

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]

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!!!

[@Cahigginbotham]

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.

[@jhj9296]

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]

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

[@stevestarr5968]

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]

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]

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

[@rayunseitig6367]

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

[@MitchellEgle]

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...

[@drillsergeant623]

So what’s the reason for the crack in the ground? 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@MrKennyaa]

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

[@ToddRickey]

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.

[@jaybee6318]

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

[@rickyfukenjohns]

Jay Bee it's legit. I live near it

[@adon2424]

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.

[@carolynbarney1265]

They say you can't stop the natural course of a river ".Who knows? I remember when there was very abundant waters running from the CATALINA mountains .😢😓🧐🥴 This pretty close to home . I was just wondering if yesterdays earthquake had any effect on...that big crack ? 🥰

[@4evermilkman]

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

[@white_heat.truth76]

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.

[@Frater_I.O.]

This vidoe is not very accurate: I live in Arizona, and there are 4, not 3 deserts: The Chijua Desert (very small portion of Arizona), the Mojave Desert (another very small portion of Arizona), the Sonoran Desert and the Painted Desert. The Southern region of Arizona is primarily desert, the Mogollon Rim Mountain Range - which runs through @central Arizona is forested, while Northern Arizona is Painted Desert.

[@swizzleproxi4810]

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.

[@edlechleiter7042]

Don't blame the farmers . Big cities , golf courses and millions of gallons to keep dolphins is where the water went .

[@peterf.229]

not too many dolphins in Arizona either.FFS

[@bonarchy297]

Peter F. There's this aquarium that's has some

[@Harry-wt1pi]

I dont think the dolphins are using that much water , did you vote for trump , sarah palin ?

[@stevemorrell6559]

A lot of water is going to watering the increasing numbers of golf courses and filling the increasing numbers of private lakes, both for the enjoyment of the wealthy, while the everyday person is instructed to take out their lawns, flowers and shade trees and to replace them with desert scenery.

[@bertgrau9246]

I know we could fill it in with illegals! Solve two problems at once

[@deploribusunum3894]

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

[@michaelschuenemann3505]

Commiefornia were the Hollywood Elite resides !

[@snshn3]

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

[@brendanwood1540]

Did anything else happen after?

[@evankeal]

Perfect example of how a speaker and some video can make people believe anything is an issue.

[@ryanb1874]

Yea, and lazy home yard waterers, are the problem of coursr...

[@kodiakpredator]

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]

kodiakpredator yeah because of liberal La. LMAO

[@johnpike9612]

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]

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]

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

[@charlespoirier8527]

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 .

[@julier.masters3070]

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.

[@gabbylikestowatchstuff]

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

[@tomballesteros4673]

There are thousands and thousands of miles of underground mines this portion of Arizona. So millions upon millions of tons of earth have been removed from underground Mines .the depths range from 2015 to 3740 with 10 different levels below the surface of the earth. This may be case of the Faultline.

[@fossilman2]

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.

[@treehouse2902]

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

[@stripervince1]

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.....

[@michaelmacdonell2942]

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

[@southernbelle2039]

Michael MacDonell. Lol

[@BlueHopi144]

Of course not .....not their training

[@thelaxman59]

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]

Earth may split in two.

[@albakreuk5830]

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.

[@AZRAY87]

The slowest earthquake ever 😂😂😂

[@sophierobinson2738]

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

[@petuniaromania6294]

Hello there. Do you know if the crack has gotten any longer or wider since this report?

[@mtbevins]

Ummm. Have you ever been to Arizona? These cracks are all over the state. This is nothing new. And PS I take offense to it being called "a waste land" as yes it is a desert and I live here. I get so tired of the alarmest who point at everything as to proof humans are harming mother earth.

[@bilbobaggins293]

Todd Bevins well spoken as I live north central arizona people who've never been to AS would actually be surprised how much it is not in fact wasteland but just things thriving in a different way

[@Osneedsmorenapalm]

bilbo Baggins you guys speak the truth

[@RayZde]

Todd let’s dump all the plastic from the oceans in your back yard. Then tell me we are destroying the environment.

[@fearlesscrusader]

Bibl, I've never been to AS either. In fact, I don't know ANYONE who has. Have you?

[@reneesikes3855]

THANK YOU! I loved living in Arizona, and it is definitely NOT a waste land. Th wildlife is amazing, I rode horses past coyote packs, jack rabbit's,hawks,lizards, I didn't see th snakes often but th horses knew they were there, and sometimes would stop and refuse to continue moveing in a certain direction,out on th desert you gota listen to your horse,lol, so much fun. I decided it would be best to move back near my family w my then toddler after a bad break up w his dad. Arizona is a beautiful place if you like th desert, how cool is it to walk up and inspect a giant cactus? If you don't then,at least give it a chance right,one day i'd like to go back.

[@bobbyharvill4225]

The crack open when Trump got elected. It's from Rosie o Donnell jumping up and down.

[@almaduarte9046]

Haha

[@constanceroyval767]

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.

[@ralphgastelum5127]

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]

Ralph Gastelum Sonoran not Sonora

[@Jah_Rastafari_ORIG]

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

[@LeaLogsdon]

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]

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

[@frankwhalen9371]

Jah Rastafari o

[@carluvrsd9374]

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]

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]

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

[@j.d.waterhouse4197]

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.

[@geltecmail]

WOW (sarcasm) See what happens when rain water seeps into the ground and dissolves lime from an ocean basin floor with an unstable overlay and guess what happens next. Rain and wind comes, the crack fills in and it start all over again. Not impressed with something that has been happening since the valley formed.

[@seanrench4401]

OMG! Thank you for saying/commenting this! It calms me down so much!

[@geltecmail]

As the water table goes down, the sediment layers compress and the cracks form. Then as erosion comes the widen and eventually fill. All the new draw from the population increase along with farm use may speed it up, but unless the aquifer totally depletes this will continue as droughts come and go. Mainly restricted to that valley due to the soil makeup. It is sort of like sinkholes, but those are mainly cavernous structures that have a void and they say the crack is from more of a compression and erosion affect. Like dried mud I guess would be a better visual, all be it on a smaller scale. It will keep happening from what I read about it, as it has in this valley for ages. This one happens to be a big one. I'm sure we will see half of California fall off into the ocean before Phoenix is swallowed by the crack.

[@geltecmail]

HAHA It would make the drive from Tuscon to Flagstaff much faster.

[@jmackinjersey1]

Don't bring logic and facts to an alarmist video.

[@magnuschristianssen8999]

Mark M Very true!!

[@sorrowinsanity]

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

[@DougNoyce]

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?"

[@babyrocasmama]

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

[@jmackinjersey1]

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

[@MrFmiller]

We have met the enemy and he is us - Pogo

[@neobailey5268]

MrFmiller very nice

[@rayunseitig6367]

yup

[@karenishness1]

In Indian Springs NM, not to far from there , an interplanetary landing strip houses a number of aliens who have made secret treaties with the government. The tall whites who spoke to Charles Hall- a weather balloon operator for the Air Force stated that aside from being addressed first by the statement: " I know you love your children more than humans love their children", they require 1000 miles of optic fiber cable for each spaceship they construct here so they can go "shopping" on other planets. How much water does it take to manufacture 1000 miles of optic fiber cable- really? Including of course, the human slaves who must construct it? Why blame human farmers for feeding humans? Monsanto/ Bayer, Mycogen and Sygenta are famous for watering in the middle of the day crops which will cause leaky gut in humans but lets get the true culprits instead of a blanket statement liable to get the wrong culprits jailed.

[@harleyme3163]

well the one problem with your story is A. fiber optic cable is made from glass or plastic, not water.. and B. machines making fiber optic run on electricity not water. or... c: are you joking? lol

[@jdg6668]

That crack is nothing new I remember seeing a report on it back in the early seventies and it's not that much bigger now that it was then. As to it being a danger to cattle or people driving, permits for grazing are no longer issued for that area and since there are no roads close to it and of road driving is also not allowed o the desert the danger to either is non existent. It would be a good idea to check your facts before trying to scare people. BTW far more water is being used by home owner than by farmers. That video is more about sensationalizing a nothing issue than about the truth.

[@d.e.b.b5788]

He should get on the case of corporations watering their lawns even when it's raining, and the conversion of re-using gray water to flush black water. That would save trillions of gallons of water.

[@onefeather2]

Well said, it is too bad these people do not care about facts, deserts have crack's like this I have seen them in Utah.

[@chadroyce284]

I like it but what is inside of it

[@ToddRickey]

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.

[@lyllianpilcher]

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

[@aadityarajbhattarai46]

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

[@lyllianpilcher]

@@aadityarajbhattarai46 both,

[@melodiefrances3898]

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

[@timothysfitzgerald2589]

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.

[@whiteknightcat]

Looks just like Beggar's Canyon back home!

[@Scott__G]

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

[@juliancrooks3031]

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

[@valerierogers9609]

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

[@pilgrim985]

Where are the vegans? What do they have to say about this?

[@forpetessake3532]

pilgrim985 AND those flat earth ones

[@4GUESTS]

There you go, use a drone ...there's no satellites. Don't count on GPS when you're lost out in nowhere Arizona. Good luck.

[@rayunseitig6367]

follow North Star and sun. Screw technology.

[@ShroomKeppie]

The satellites are there, in the sky. Your GPS will work just fine. Might have trouble getting a cellphone signal, though.

[@BK-vh3do]

U can also get lost with a GPS because they are not always right.

[@krenee8640]

I’m sure it’s not all groundwater. I’m sure fracking has lots to do with all of these holes/fissures opening up in the grounds across America .

[@ferrariscuderia4290]

That damn squirrel again!

[@IamNotaTeslaBot]

Ferrari Scuderia facts

[@JordanGoldschmidt]

The lesser known "Bland Canyon".

[@davidyancey8743]

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.

[@richardb261]

Graboids

[@colleb95]

Richard Baldwin LOL

[@hellothere9318]

Movie set for tremors6

[@rmandrums1959]

Don't you all understand that if this continues, Mothra will escape and cause more problems for Tokyo.

[@yvonnecleveland2340]

It only makes sense that when you pump water or oil out of the earth a cavity is left behind. That cavity will at some point collapse in on it's self. Yet, we continue to pump large quantities of oil. What will happen when those empty holes start collapsing?

[@omeemo7003]

I wonder if it's connected to the big cracked that was discovered in South Africa 😏