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The sinkhole — which appeared large enough to swallow several cars hole — opened on the side of Interstate 80 in Wharton sometime around 7:45 a.m. Monster sinkhole opens along major NJ highway ...
Pages in category "Sinkholes of the United States" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
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.
2018 Surabaya City sinkhole – a 30 m (98 ft) wide and 15 m (49 ft) deep sinkhole opened up on Gubeng Road in Surabaya, Indonesia during construction work on December 18, 2018. 2022 Tierra Amarilla sinkhole – a 25 m (80 ft) wide and more than 200 m (700 ft) deep sinkhole appeared in the commune of Tierra Amarilla , Atacama Region of Chile ...
Neither source refers to his death as unusual. Heck, The Guardian states that over 500 sinkholes had been reported in the county since 1954. ZionniThePeruser 23:39, 17 September 2024 (UTC) Roger Mirro 30 July 2013: The 56-year-old man in Chicago was crushed by a trash compactor while looking through a dumpster for his phone. [228] [229]
The Xiaozhai Tiankeng has been well known to local people since ancient times. Xiaozhai is the name of an abandoned village nearby and literally means "little village", and "Tiankeng" means Heavenly Pit, a unique regional name for sinkholes in China. A 2,800-step staircase has been constructed in order to facilitate tourism. [2]
In 1985, the Kaufmans sold the 2,000-acre (8.1 km 2) quarry to investors who filled in and developed the quarry for residential use, including Marble Cliff Commons [6] [2] [3] apartments and Marble Cliff Crossing, a 100 single-family and 60 double-family subdivision built between 1998 and 2003. [7]
The cave and 6.8 acres (28,000 m 2) encompassing the sinkhole and cave entrance are owned by a private conservancy organization.This organization is composed of volunteers who monitor the condition of the cave, remove garbage and graffiti, conduct research, and work with the police to deter people from gathering at the cave to drink, use drugs, vandalize, etc.