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A Florida sinkhole that in 2013 fatally swallowed a man sleeping in his own house has reopened for a third time, only now it's behind chain-link fencing and doing no harm to people or property.
Repair crews attempted to fill it and the ground was said to be stabilized. But then neighbors noticed the sinkhole was growing. The sinkhole was about 65 feet wide and and 75 feet deep.
It’s the third time the sinkhole in Seffner, roughly a 15-mile drive east of Tampa, has opened. ... Sinkholes are common in Florida, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
The company mining the phosphate, IMC-Agrico, now a part of The Mosaic Company, started the sinkhole remediation process immediately. It has spent over $6 million trying to repair the damage to the Florida water supply. [28] [29] On August 27, 2016, the Mosaic Company discovered a giant sinkhole under a gypsum stack.
Warm Mineral Springs is a sinkhole formed in carbonate rock by the collapse of the roof of a cavern 30,000 years ago. The land surrounding the sinkhole is flat, and about 3 metres (10 ft) above mean sea level. The circular opening of the sinkhole at the current water level is 72 metres (236 ft) across.
On July 9, 1981, Winter Park began selling sinkhole photographs to educate the community about sinkholes and to promote tourism. The sinkhole began to fill with water that summer, but on July 19, the water level suddenly dropped by a reported 15 to 20 feet (4.6 to 6.1 m). [12] As the novelty wore off, the city worked to repair the damage.
Another sinkhole reported in Polk County opened up at about 1 a.m. on Thursday, according to Fox 13 News reporter Jordan Bowen, who posted footage of the hole, which swallowed up a pickup truck ...
The tremor was felt as far south as Tampa and as far north as Savannah, Georgia. In January 1880, Cuba was the center of two strong earthquakes that sent severe shock waves through the city of Key West, Florida. [8] Another earthquake centered outside Florida was the 1886 Charleston earthquake. The shock was felt throughout northern Florida ...