A sinkhole the size of a swimming pool opened up on a busy street in Japan, swallowing a truck and trapping the driver. Tuesday 28 January 2025 18:28, UK Japan Sinkhole swallows truck and traps driver Officials said the driver had been stuck in the hole for eight hours.Share This is a...
Sinkholes are common in Florida because the peninsula is made up of porous carbonate rocks such as limestone that store and help move water underground. Over time, the rocks can dissolve from an acid created from oxygen in water, causing a void under the limestone roof. When dirt, clay or ...
Six-Story Sinkhole Opens Under New Zealand Farm WELLINGTON, New Zealand (CBS News/CBSLA)— A spectacular sinkhole the length of two football fields and the depth of a six-story building has opened up on a New Zealand farm. A worker stumbled upon the chasm before dawn this week when he wa...
Sinkhole downtown opens under minivanWilliam Kaempffer
A sinkhole opens up in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, after the city was soaked by seven and a half inches of rain, July 23, 2010. Minnesota Sinkhole Brian Peterson/Star-Tribune/AP A car sits in a giant sinkhole in Duluth, Minnesota, on June 20, 2011. ...
The dipping follows the route of the river. And it's a pretty long stretch underground. The ravine extends underneath Elm Avenue and opens up almost at Interstate 80. "It seems like it would've been a really big deal to put that pipe in and cover it all up," Rowett says. ...