Althouse: "The largest waterfall in Ecuador has seemingly vanished after a sinkhole swallowed part of its water source."

April 6, 2020

"The largest waterfall in Ecuador has seemingly vanished after a sinkhole swallowed part of its water source."

"San Rafael Waterfall on the Coca River was a prominent tourist attraction for the country, and according to NASA, drew tens of thousands of people every year. The water dropped 150 feet into a crater-like opening on the other side Now, the iconic waterfall is gone, replaced by three streams, NASA said. All tourism to the site has been closed and it no longer appears on the country's travel website."

CNN reports. Before and after image at the link.

31 comments:

Nonapod said...: Kinda odd that NASA is reporting this.

I heard that NASA was asking for 35 billion to get back to the Moon by 2024. I imagine that's pretty much off the table thanks to a certain virus.; 4/6/20, 10:30 AM
Achilles said...: The waterfall didn't disappear as such.

It is still falling.

It just moved a little.; 4/6/20, 10:34 AM
DKWalser said...: This will make it easier for people to practice social distancing. If this hadn't happened, crowds of people would be flocking to see the waterfall.; 4/6/20, 10:37 AM
Freeman Hunt said...: Looks pretty good now.; 4/6/20, 10:37 AM
Achilles said...: Nonapod said...
Kinda odd that NASA is reporting this.

I heard that NASA was asking for 35 billion to get back to the Moon by 2024. I imagine that's pretty much off the table thanks to a certain virus.

I find it interesting that we can accept spending 5-6 trillion dollars shutting the economy down for a severe flu season.

IMHE just revised their numbers again.

Guess which way.

Oh and those sky is falling reports about hospitals being overwhelmed turned out to be wrong too.

hmm.; 4/6/20, 10:38 AM
Dave Begley said...: Maybe the world-wide resources of CNN can give us an accurate report on how many people disappeared in China and Iran.

CNN is only good for covering car wrecks and fires. That's it.; 4/6/20, 10:40 AM
Big Mike said...: The Ministry of Tourism does not plan to reconstruct the falls

Nor should they.; 4/6/20, 10:41 AM
Original Mike said...: Hasn't NASA got better things to do? How's that heavy lift rocket coming along?; 4/6/20, 10:41 AM
rhhardin said...: It's the cliff that's large, not the waterfall. The waterfall is nothing but dropping something off the top.; 4/6/20, 10:49 AM
TheDopeFromHope said...: Trump stole it and had it shipped to one of his golf courses.; 4/6/20, 11:01 AM
Iman said...: Take me to teh river
Drop me in teh water; 4/6/20, 11:01 AM
exhelodrvr1 said...: Covid-19 or global warming? SHould we extend the quarantine to save our waterfalls?; 4/6/20, 11:02 AM
Fernandinande said...: Just like a river flowing through time, I'm attracted to gravity.; 4/6/20, 11:21 AM
Earnest Prole said...: So the End Times then.; 4/6/20, 11:27 AM
MadisonMan said...: @DKWalser, no it would be Huge Number of people flocking!

So in a couple million years there'll be a natural bridge there. Cool!; 4/6/20, 11:29 AM
Magson said...: NASA had this as their "Earth Observatory Pic of the Day" back on March 27th.; 4/6/20, 12:04 PM
Bob Boyd said...: Large numbers of people stopped flocking...; 4/6/20, 12:07 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Yes, the water is still falling to the river below, just underground, now.; 4/6/20, 12:24 PM
Dust Bunny Queen said...: Nothing lasts or stays the same forever. Waterfalls, streams, mountains, climate, humans.

The delusion that we can stop Mother Nature from proceeding on, or that we have any control over the ultimate and inevitable is just that....delusion. We learn. We adapt. Or not.; 4/6/20, 1:03 PM
Automatic_Wing said...: This is why they told us not to go chasing waterfalls.; 4/6/20, 1:07 PM
Bob Smith said...: I blame Trump.; 4/6/20, 1:24 PM
Floris Pennywise said...: I was pretty much assured that all environmental changes are due to humans pumping out greenhouse gases. Yet this article mentions nothing about climate change. What gives?; 4/6/20, 2:15 PM
Spiros said...: Some people claim that the mythical city of Atlantis disappeared into a sinkhole. I didn't realize that sinkholes can get that big.; 4/6/20, 3:24 PM
Josephbleau said...: The geological name is a “swallow hole”, doesn’t that sound bad? An example is the Lost River in Indiana that disappears underground for 23 miles in a karst plain but spills to the surface in the White River of Martin Co.; 4/6/20, 4:33 PM
Josephbleau said...: Indiana counties are mostly named after military officers who were at the Battle of Tippicanoe. But Martin county was so poor that it got named after a Sargent.; 4/6/20, 4:38 PM
Drago said...: Anthropogenic Global Dry-ening.; 4/6/20, 5:36 PM
n.n said...: Chaos ("evolution").; 4/6/20, 6:20 PM
Maillard Reactionary said...: Well, I guess I'll be scratching Ecuador off my bucket list. On the bright side, I won't have to feel bad about no longer being able to afford to go there.; 4/6/20, 6:25 PM
Scott M said...: "Remember the other day when you were asking me about the definition of irony?"; 4/6/20, 7:33 PM
Marcus Bressler said...: Stop linking to CNN. Surely there is a real news source reporting the same story.

THEOLDMAN; 4/6/20, 8:20 PM
pious agnostic said...: Wait, was this predicted by a model?; 4/6/20, 8:52 PM