in the crater in which the fossilized remains were found was named the bottom gaika crater but locals call it the gateway to the underworld. it's easy to see why. in the 1960 s. a small section of forest was cleared to make way for a new road. the problem frost originally beneath the trees began eroding. at 1st the hole was just a few metres deep. the student on average the make a crater is between 40 and 60 meters deep and in some places it's 100 meters deep it's 1.5 kilometers long and about one kilometer wide right now but it's hard to determine exactly how wide it is because it's expanding so quickly because these kinds of catastrophic events could become increasingly common hypnosis and not just in residential areas but anywhere in the wilderness wherever there are pipelines and natural gas facilities our entire infrastructure could be impacted. as opposed to. most of the cities in siberia and in russia's far east could be affected about 25000000 people in all. how big would the impact be if all the world's permafrost were to melt so far there isn't enough cross regional research