Wow, oops. I wonder if it was mother nature or if it was a broken pipe. I think out in CA a few years back they had a sewer pipe break or something that did the same thing.
^lol. Really though, does anyone know how deep it is? Is a sinkhole like that caused by removing a substance that once occupied it? Oil? Water? The earth doesnt just have big pockets of air underneath its crust, does it?
"A giant sinkhole is seen in Guatemala City, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2007. A 330-foot-deep sinkhole killed two teenage and swallowed about a dozen homes early Friday and forced the evacuation of nearly 1,000 people in a crowded city neighborhood. 3:02 p.m. ET, 2/24/07" That's on one of the other pics.
You're on the right track. In cases like this, they're usually "caused," by removing water from the water reservoirs below the earths surface (often by groundwater pumping/welling). They can also be caused by chemical seepage into a rock base (which in the right conditions can dissolve the rock). A similar event called "liquefaction" can be caused by uncemented sediment mobilized by an earthquake, causing failure. Ok, thats probably more then you wanted to know. Yay Geology degree!
picture ^^ it's like the hands of God .. okay .. now I'm going someplace in a handbasket :laugh: This thread is just what I needed at work today
^^w00t w00t^^ Maybe that will happen to the building I work in downtown...sucked into a sewage stink....sink hole - then I wouldn't have to come to work...ev4r
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