The crack appeared on 13 July in Santa Maria Huejoculco in Chalco, State Mexico, land has now reached 500 meters long and authorities have not taken preventive measures, warned James Espinoza Hilario, responsible for Social planning on the Sierra Nevada project of the Autonomous Metropolitan University.

In addition, after survey work was detected in Santa Maria Huejoculco yet another gap of about four km which reached La Candelaria Tlapala, in the community of Miraflores, in Chalco, explained Professor Martín Espinosa.

These failures are part of a family of cracks that exist in the region and threaten to spread across the entire east area of the Valley of Mexico.

This event began back 2009 in a small area of this region but since it has grown and is eating up everything around it .



video here
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/232196-Gigantic-Crack-Opens-Up-In-Mexico

You mean this story is not about the memoirs of a huge Tijuana prostitute?

ya, she just started...

That link has links to other mysterious cracks, some in the United States. I watched a video of a guy following one and it was 15 degrees outside, but heat was coming from the crack.

Also, the ocean floor is heating up.

I kinda doubt that Global warming has anything to do with my hairspray.

Or your SUV.

The earth is heating up from inside.

Here where I live, every day is gets to 100 degrees and sometimes up as high as 110. To walk outside is like walking into an oven.

I'm quite sure I could set a piece of foil on the ground and cook an egg.

Scientists do not know what to think about: South America is bursting at the seams. In southern Peru, suddenly appeared a huge crack length of 3 km and a width of about 100 meters.

Anomaly occurred in the district Huakullani Chukuito province near the famous Lake Titicaca. A crack has appeared almost immediately: the earth like a burst at the site of a large tension, the far scattered huge chunks of soil.

Interestingly, the crack did not appear in the earthquake. In general, there was no catastrophe, the earth simply gone. The crack occurred on level ground and is not associated with any disasters. Scientists are confused with this fact. Cracks also appear in neighboring Bolivia. And not so long ago, the crack happened in Africa – Ethiopia. Maybe these phenomena is common nature: the continents literally split in front of mankind. (BetaNovosti)

http://ehextra.com/main.asp?SectionID=12&SubSectionID=35&ArticleID=8713

Good picture of the crack at the above article


BIRCH CREEK - One day the land was flat and filled with trees shooting straight into the air. Twenty-four hours later there's a 600-foot-long crack, 4-feet deep twisting its way through the woods - and those vertical trees are now pointed 30 degrees left and right where the earth has mounded 15 feet high. No, it's not a disaster movie; it's what happened Monday at the home of Eileen Heider on Bay de Noc Road in Birch Creek.
Heider was sitting in her recliner watching TV at about 8:30 that morning. "The chair shook for a few seconds and I thought the spring in the chair went," she said. Heider heard a noise at the same time. She checked her chair and around the house inside and out but couldn't find anything unusual.

these cracks and sinkholes are happening everywhere now... Canada even has some huge sinkholes that are getting bigger by the day, Texas has a huge crack out west, Venezuela has some huge sinkholes, one swallowed a 3 story building...

Live Seismic Earth Monitoring.


http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

I haven't checked that last link yet, but ever since the tsunami near Banda Aceh, the Pacific, Caribbean, and South American plates have seen a rise in activity, as if they are all putting pressure upon each other. The cracks in Chalco seem to roughly correspond with the western edge of the Caribbean plate.

In fact, just as pure speculation, maybe this has some relation to the seismic activity near New Madrid, MO. A large scale seismic event is due to happen there within the next 100 years (a 300 year cycle), and the last one is reputed to be the strongest earthquake ever in North America though in 1812 there was nothing there to record it. Depending upon the direction the Pacific, Caribbean, and South American plates are moving, it could hint at a build up of stress within the Mississippi Valley that might trigger an event near New Madrid.

I really should pull up the seismic map again....I haven't checked activity on it in a few months to see any current seismic trends. It was very revealing the last time I looked at it. It plotted all seismic activity around the world within a 6 month period. The concentration of activity surrounding the Pacific Rim and the Caribbean was mind-boggling compared to the entire rest of the world.

Personally I think the New Madrid earth quake is going to hit in late October 2011. (just a feeling)

good guess, i was thinking september, around the 11...

After checking the seismic map, there has been an awful lot of activity around the Pacific Rim the past two weeks. And a good portion of activity within the past two days also.

Given how active the Pacific region has been the past few years, I can't help but think it's building towards a series of massive quakes. The questions are where and when are they going to happen?

A lot stress must have been relieved by all the activity, which inclines me to look at the areas around the Pacific Rim that have been the least active. On the other hand, I wonder if the relief of tension in active areas might lead to a sudden shift, such as the one which generated the tsunami in Japan.

Furthermore, I wonder if plates are capable of shifting the direction in which they move, further complicating seismic prediction. To me, it would only be logical that plates could indeed change direction as the forces acting upon them fluctuate. Hence, it would be interesting to see if any of this seismic activity has indeed caused a plate to shift its path.

I'm thinking it has something to do with the pole shift... i have read somewhere that it has already started, with the magnetic north pole being somewhere in Russia now...

Could be. Also, the earth is heating up... some people have said that these cracks have heat coming out of them.

Also, all the planets in the solar system are going through changes and heating up also.

We are living in exciting times.

The magnetic poles move constantly and always have. The unusual event you may be thinking of is called a "pole shift" where North and South poles swap places.

There is also polar "wander" where the actual center of rotation changes from orbital wobble.

I think it is about one degree every million years or so.

looks like my front yard!

The crack in that picture is the largest one I've seen yet from looking at them on the Internet.

Except for the Grand Canyon.

lol those texas cracks can get big when theres no rain...

that one is only 500 meters, it says there is another that is 4km long...

After checking a map, there are two small plates bordering the area where these cracks are forming. I haven't been able to find any info on what direction these plates are moving in yet, but the cracks might indicate that the plates are moving in opposite directions.

This is similar to what is happening with eastern Africa where the Rift Valley has been formed as eastern Africa pulls away from the main landmass. If this is the case in Mexico, then we are looking at the eventual possibility of North America and South America separating from each other.

As far as Pisgah crater erupting, that may just be due to increased activity along the West Coast subduction zone. As the sea bottom dives down underneath the continental shelf, it liquifies into magma. Often this will lead to venting or even eruption of a volcano within 100 miles or so of the coast.

Hmmm, maybe I should pull up a map of volcanic activity just to see what it shows, out of curiosity.