Sinkholes: Swallowing everything, including the kitchen sink
If you were horrifically fascinated (horrafinated?) by the sinkhole that swallowed Floridian Jeff Bush and his entire bedroom a week ago, you might be interested in some sinkhole science. The US...
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Sinkholes swallowing people in China this month
If you're heading to China, watch where you step. Last month it was escalators pulling people underground in China, with three separate accidents, including one that killed a mother after she managed...
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Sinkhole swallows house's backyard
Mr. and Mrs. McKays live in a house built near a 100-year-old mineshaft near Brisbane, Australia. This week, a giant water-filled sinkhole appeared in their back yard. Fortunately, it looks like the...
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Timelapse of giant sinkhole repair in Japan
It took just days for a construction crew to repair a road that collapsed into a sinkhole in the business district of Fukuoka, Japan. From CNN: After the sinkhole appeared on November 8,...
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Sinkhole opens in front of Mar-a-Lago, funny tweets abound
A 4x4 sinkhole has opened up in front of Mar-a-Lago on Southern Boulevard in Palm Beach, FL. It hasn't swallowed anything up, so as far as sinkholes go, it doesn't seem major. But it's inspired some...
View ArticleGargantuan sinkhole surprises farm worker at sunrise in New Zealand
Last week, a worker on a farm in New Zealand was rounding up cows before sunrise when he noticed a massive sinkhole, almost falling into it while riding on his motorbike. But it wasn't until daylight...
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Just in time for Halloween, a new Hellmouth opens near Salem
Tewksbury, Massachusetts is about 15 miles south of Salem, New Hampshire and 25 miles west of Salem, Massachusetts. It's also 25 miles north of Watertown, Massachusetts, where Eliza Dushku was born and...
View ArticleMassive sinkhole opens and swallows bus in Pittsburgh
A bus in Pittsburgh fell backwards into a sinkhole that suddenly opened up on a street in Pittsburgh on Monday morning. Fortunately the bus was bearing just one passenger at the time and neither the...
View ArticleTruck opens a massive sinkhole and seconds later a car falls in
A truck drove down a street in Flores da Cunha, Brasil, opening a large sinkhole as it passed, reports Gauchazh. A few seconds later, a car drove over it and was swallowed. The driver broke bones in...
View ArticleLarge sinkhole swallows bus in China as passengers are boarding
As people were boarding a bus in Xining, China, a large sinkhole opened up, causing the bus to nosedive into the deep pit. Tragically, six people died and at least 16 others were injured. According to...
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This huge sinkhole in Mexico is growing, threatening to swallow the house...
A gigantic sinkhole in Santa Maria Zacatepec, about 80 miles from Mexico City, has grown from 5 yards to 75 yards since the weekend, threatening to swallow the nearby house seen in the video. The...
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Watch a huge sinkhole in Jerusalem open up and swallow cars
A massive sinkhole opened up yesterday in the parking lot of Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel. Fortunately, there have been no injuries reported. From The Guardian: Israeli police,...
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Forest grows in a giant, 630ft-deep sinkhole
In Leye County, China, a forest grows at the bottom of a humungous sinkhole 630ft-deep. Latest among several such discoveries in the region's spectacular karst landscape, the sinkhole is all but...
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Watch the moment a van is swallowed up by a massive sinkhole in the Bronx,...
A van was swallowed into the Upside Down on Monday in the Bronx, New York. Fortunately, nobody was injured. Watch the incredible video above—money shot at 36 seconds. The New York City Department of...
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Sinkhole drains pool in seconds at swim party, killing one and injuring another
A sinkhole swallowed up water and colorful inflatable toys during an outdoor swim party in Israel, leaving the pool empty as guests dangerously stood around the edge of the hole (see video below)....
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Massive sinkhole bigger than a basketball court opened up in Chile
A sinkhole 105 feet in diameter opened up near the Chilean town of Tierra Amarilla in the Atacama Desert. The sinkhole, bigger than an NBA basketball court, appeared near Lundin Mining's underground...
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Two gentlemen ignore "road closed" warnings and drive straight into a...
A 15-foot-wide sinkhole opened up near Tracy, California last month, so officials set up plenty of "ROAD CLOSED" warnings with "clear, visible, and unobstructed" signs and barricades. But that didn't...
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Watch pothole grow in size, then grab car that tries to drive over it
What started off as a medium-sized pothole (sinkhole?) in the road grew to double its size after two cars plowed over it. In fact, the pothole had become so large and ugly that it spooked the third car...
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Florida sinkhole that swallowed a sleeping man in 2013 has reopened to feed...
Fox 13 news out of Tampa reports that a sinkhole there that swallowed a man while he slept has "re-opened." Officials are advising nearby locals that it is safe to remain in their homes, but locals are...
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Uh-oh. Huge sinkhole swallows up Illinois soccer field — which was built over...
Sinkholes are interesting enough, but to watch one in action is fascinating. And this morning in Alton, Illinois, a 100-foot-wide, 50-foot-deep sinkhole swallowed up the center of a soccer field —...
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Sinkhole opens inside Trader Joe's
The Trader Joe's in Larkspur, California closed suddenly last week to shoppers dismay. The reason has been a mystery and fodder for NextDoor conspiracies. (I know this because it's my local TJ's.) Now...
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Sinkhole swallows entire car — along with passengers — on highway in Italy...
A major sinkhole spread across both sides of a highway in southern Italy today, swallowing up a car along with its passengers in the process. The hole opened up in the Calabria region after a storm of...
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Pennsylvania woman swallowed by sinkhole still missing after 2 day search
A Pennsylvania woman and her 5-year-old granddaughter were out looking for their cat when the woman suddenly disappeared — right where a fresh sinkhole "the size of a manhole" opened up. Now, still...
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