“Suddenly, a 9-meter sand fountain appeared, in the Al-Ahsae City, Eastern Saudi Arabia. Immediately, Armaco geological teams and scientists hurry to deal with this strange phenomenon, but they did not succeed in explaining what happened !”

http://tv.muxlim.com/video/M6LzaklypNT

Coolness!

Oil? Gas? High pressure water? Eerily-localised earthquake?

I prefer to think that it's a miracle. But I suppose only those stood watching will be able to tell us.

They're not entirely out of the ordinary. They can form anywhere where overpressured fluid exists at depth and is able to travel to the surface. Normally earthquakes or oil drilling are the cause. They can also be associated with shallow liquefaction during earthquakes.

I'm not surprised the geologists hurried to it- they probably wanted to avoid the kind of backlash that occurred after the Sidoarjo Mudflow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidoarjo_mudflow) in Indonesia.

I wonder what came of this one... Never heard of it before now so I guess it probably wasn't long-lived.

It looks more like an underground gas line ruptured and sent all the sand that was above it upward, that came down and just kept repeating the same process over and over since the sand had nowhere else to go but up and down. :)

It´s true .... I wondered why the sand did not heap up in dunes around the area .... it´s like "recycling" into the fountain ......
Something is under pressure .... but what is causing it .....Allah...:rolleyes:

Hum,
This may have given rise to Genies / Djinns ?

If there was a lot of water mixed in then the sand would tend to flow and not pile up too high at first at least. You never see the base so it's hard to tell exactly what's going on. Wonder how long in to the eruption the video was taken...