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The Red Lake sinkhole in Croatia. A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer. The term is sometimes used to refer to doline, enclosed depressions that are also known as shakeholes, and to openings where surface water enters into underground passages known as ponor, swallow hole or swallet.
At most times and under most conditions, other than extreme flooding, the westward-flowing Lost River vanishes into a series of sinkholes in a river bed located close to Indiana State Road 337 four miles (6 km) east of Orleans.
The Great Blue Hole, located near Ambergris Caye, Belize Dean's Blue Hole, Long Island, Bahamas Watling's Blue Hole, San Salvador Island, Bahamas. A blue hole is a large marine cavern or sinkhole, which is open to the surface and has developed in a bank or island composed of a carbonate bedrock (limestone or coral reef).
UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) — The body of Elizabeth Pollard, the missing 64-year-old woman who fell through a sinkhole while looking for her cat in Unity Township, Pennsylvania, has been found ...
It’s all that remains of a river bed, the catalyst in making this sinkhole. “We need to balance this joy with protecting this place,” Michael says, looking around him.
What caused the sinkhole is under investigation, Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert said Thursday in a Facebook post. "City engineers and inspectors say a number of factors could have caused the pavement ...
The 2024 Kuala Lumpur sinkhole, also known as the Jalan Masjid India sinkhole, is an 8-metre (26 ft) deep sinkhole that formed in Jalan Masjid India in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 23 August 2024, possibly caused by sewage pipe ruptures and other geographical faults. [3] [4] Its collapse has caused one victim to disappear for more than a week. [5 ...
Blount said her sinkhole remediation project has cost between $300,000 and $400,000 — well beyond her financial capacity for out-of-pocket repairs. The insurance, in her case, has been a real ...