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Back in June a landslide occurred in Kamchatka a mountainous region of Russia, the slide effected a valley known as Geyser Valley or Valley of Geysers. Reports indicated that this little known and sparsely visited part of the world had been destroyed by the landslide.

A month after the fact a group of scientists were sent to the valley to evaluate the damage, what they found was that two of the more than twenty geysers had been buried and the slide had created a natural dam which they believe will be naturally eroded and washed away to reveal the two buried geysers. The scientists were also surprised to find a new large geyser with a 5 meter jet.

It appears that the initial fears of a natural wonder lost were incorrect I guess that is the nature of these type of events in remote regions. Check out the report on the regions website, Scientists evaluate Geyser Valley landslide.

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