In Karnal, land rises above water-level by up to five feets in seconds

Karnal : In a viral video shared online, a land in Haryana can be seen rising significantly above the water level. The video has been shared on Facebook by Jagat Vani, it has garnered more than 4.5 lakh views by the time this story was published.

The undated video is believed to be from Karnal where a cracked ground, submerged in water, suddenly uplifts. A man in the video can be heard warning other men to stay back as the land continues to swell.

Someone can be heard exclaiming, “See this, how the land is rising. This is a new experience.”

Check out the scary video below:

Soon after the incident, people started looking for the cause behind this; some suggested tectonic plate activity, while some said it was because of methane gas trapped inside.

“Not really due to tectonic activity, but methane trapped in the earth gets released getting the wet layer to form a bubble, that is what seems to be happening here,” wrote a user. 

Refuting the methane theory, another user wrote, “If this was caused by methane, then this much methane could have caused breathing issues to the people standing and recording...It is unlikely to be methane, but who knows.”