The sinkhole, which runs some 200 ft. deep, swallowed a three-story building and left one man missing when it opened on Sunday, according to the Daily Mail. Some 146 people have died across Central America in the wake of Agatha’s landfall, with Guatemala reporting the bulk of the casualties. Sinkholes like this, while frightening, didn’t cause most of the deaths — mudslides loosed by the downpour buried many in and around the capital.
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Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/06/01/giant-sinkhole-opens-in-guatemala-city/#ixzz0pdEJn1Fs
Sinkholes? Sinkholes? We don't need no stinking sinkholes. It is just amazing more people were not hurt or even more than one disappeared. I think there may be a movie in there somewhere!!!
ReplyDeleteJourney to the Center of the Earth...............hahahahah Nope it's been done. HF&RV
ReplyDeleteHowever how is this for a large sinkhole: Apparently just off the coast of Belize is a huge sinkhole.
ReplyDeleteI hadn't heard of this one until now.
The world’s biggest sinkhole is believed to be the Great Blue Hole off the coast of Belize. In this instance, a limsetone cave system collapsed as the oceans rose, leaving a 300-meter wide, 125-meter deep feature some 60 miles from the coast of Belize.
Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/05/13/sinkholes-the-hidden-deadly-physics-of-cave-ins/#ixzz0pebG8sBV