Lake Disappears in Chile

An earthquake in Patagonian region is one suspect in lake's disappearance A 5-acre lake in Southern Chile has disappeared. All that's left is a dry bed, some chunks of ice and a fissure in the ground. Officials last saw the glacier-fed lake in March, but on a trip to the Magallanes region of Patagonia, they found it had gone missing. The episode is perhaps not as strange as it sounds -- the lake itself formed only 30 years ago after a mountain building exercise in the volatile landscape, according to a story in the June 21 Los Angeles Times. Related Stories World's Largest Freshwater Lake Drying Up Global Warming's Effect On World's Top 5 Lakes For more on the disappearance of the Chilean lake, see this BBC story.