more sinkholes

[zorgon]

Video shows Clermont resort sinkhole collapse

[zorgon]

Mother Earth is Hungry....


Chinese workers inspect a sinkhole in a street in Beijing on Feb. 8. Sinkholes are known geological phenomena that usually occur predominantly in areas that have been heavily mined or on reclaimed land. (AFP/Getty Images )


A sinkhole occurred on June 4 on a freeway in China's Zhejiang Province. (Photographer name withheld by request)

Prelude to Disaster?

The outbreak of sinkholes has struck fear in Chinese people. Though reports in official media always quote "experts" that conclude such holes are not warning signs of another major earthquake, people have little trust in such comments.

Online bloggers posted footage of similar alleged expert reassurances aired on local TV news channels shortly before the Sichuan earthquake. They are criticizing such assertions as no more than authorities' tricks to maintain so-called social stability.

"What I hate most of the 'experts' on TV who confidently promise everything is OK," wrote one blogger. "They're saying this only because the government told them to."

Many other bloggers joked that when the media start to refute earthquake rumors, it is time to pack up and leave because an earthquake is surely around the corner.

Having little trust in the regime's official reports, Chinese are now increasingly wary of abnormalities such as the appearance of large herds of toads or snakes, or clouds of unusual colors or shapes, and pay serious attention to any disaster warnings on blog sites.

Sinking government credibility and all too fresh memories of a series of recent disasters are causing Chinese society to become easily agitated. This February, the mere rumor of an earthquake scared tens of thousands of citizens in Taiyuan City in Shanxi Province out of their homes and into the streets to spend the night.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/china-news/sudden-sinkhole-outbreak-raises-fears-in-china-36969.html

[zorgon]

Those Chinese ones were in the middle of the roads Maybe Ma Nature like to munch on cars



Almost


A truck hangs over the edge of a sinkhole that opened up in the parking lot of Hughes Relocation Services in Salt Springs, Fla. on June 25, 2012.

Yummy... got three... 


Chicago fire, water, streets and sanitation departments respond to a sink hole which swallowed three vehicles and exposed a 24 inch gas line at the 9600 block of south Houston Avenue on Chicago's south side, April 18, 2013.

[zorgon]

A Sinkhole eats a man


Submitted by jinzai007 on March 02nd, 2013
A Sinkhole suddenly eats a man in Florida. This happened when Jeff Bush,35 was going to sleep in his bedroom then. sinkhole suddenly eats his bed.
The whole household heard a noisy thing that urges them to see what happened until they saw the hole. Jeff's brother immediately jumped into the hole in searching for his brother but he failed.


This one ate a family in Guatamala...


This one ate a house...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-cairns/sinkhole-activity-vs-cata_b_2906527.html


...this one tried


Second one in Guatamala eating buildings

[zorgon]

( Algerina Perna, Baltimore Sun / August 29, 2012 )
The sink hole on Monument street (near the 700 block of Montford Ave.) increased in size today as a result of heavy rains.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/baltimore365/bal-pictures-baltimore-365-julyseptember-20120-055,0,745767.photo


St. Jude Quebec where a sink hole 1 km by .5 km destroyed a home - It's hard to imagine but the ground sank beneath the home of Richard Préfontaine, Lyne Charbonneau and their daughters, Anaïs and Amélie at 9:30 pm on Monday night wiping out their family.

http://njnnetwork.com/2010/05/sinkhole-claims-st-june-family-of-4/

[The Matrix Traveller]

Hi Z,

Why do these "Sinkholes" appear to be ROUND ?

Instead of like long fissures ?

[Ellirium113]

Likely due to the way the ground collapses sort of like a dome collapsing. The material will fall away until a stable dome or arch will support the ground naturally. In hard rock mining typically you can feel if the ground is shifting. Most of those sinkholes look like they are in sedimentary rock which is very unstable and would require an immense backfill to stabilize the area.

[zorgon]

Curiosity Ate the Cat 

[zorgon]

Hi Z,

Why do these "Sinkholes" appear to be ROUND ?

Instead of like long fissures ?

Ummm  maybe they are Portals to Inner Earth?   








Not always round but likely due to the fact the cause is deeper down and stuff funnels into the hole





BWAHAHAHA Poetic Justice

[zorgon]

Bimmah Sink hole. Hawiyat Najm Park, Dibab, Diba Al Bay Ah, Oman

[zorgon]

Entrance To Middle Earth?

[zorgon]

"Journey to the Center of the Earth"



Sinkhole at IMC Agrico Gypsum Stack, June 15, 1994

On June 15, 1994 " a 15-story-deep sinkhole opened up in an 80 million-ton pile of phosphogypsum waste -- known as a gypsum stack -- at IMC-Agrico's New Wales plant. The hole could be as big as 2 million cubic feet, enough to swallow 400 railroad boxcars. Local wags call it Disney World's newest attraction -- "Journey to the Center of the Earth" -- but there's nothing amusing about it. The cave-in dumped 4 million to 6 million cubic feet of toxic and radioactive gypsum and waste water into the Floridan aquifer, which provides 90 percent of the state's drinking water. The company has voluntarily spent $ 6.8 million to plug the sinkhole and control the spread of contaminants in the ground water." - US News & World Report, June 12, 1995

http://208.109.172.241/phosphate/sinkhole.htm

[zorgon]

Sinkhole swallows up SUV in New York street

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/12036517/ns/us_news-life/t/sinkhole-swallows-suv-new-york-street/#.UgrBedLUnjI

[zorgon]

Xi'An Sink Hole Swallows Cement Truck

http://www.chinacartimes.com/2013/07/29/xian-sink-hole-swallows-cement-truck/

[zorgon]

NZ Mainland Sinkhole Points

http://data.linz.govt.nz/layer/345-nz-mainland-sinkhole-points-topo-150k/