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Guatemala sinkhole

On May 31st, 2010, a massive sinkhole opened in an intersection in Guatemala City, Guatemala, swallowing a three-story building and causing several deaths. Geologists believe that this sinkhole was caused by Tropical Storm Agatha.

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The Oxford Companion to the Earth

sinkholes Sinkholes (French, dolines) are topographically closed depressions created by removal of materials downwards through their floors. Loss downwards differentiates them from other types of closed depressions, such as impact craters or deflation hollows that form when material is carried out over the enclosing rims. Four main processes create sinkholes: dissolution of soluble rocks such as salt, gypsum, limestone, and dolostone directly downwards from the surface; collapse of consolidated or partly consolidated rocks into underlying cavities formed by dissolution, compaction, piping, mining, etc.; piping of silts, sands, and gravels grain by grain into smaller cavities (analogous to emptying a sandhopper);... Read more

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  • Wenceslao: Sinkhole, Navarro

    Sun.Star; 2 days ago

    THAT sinkhole in Barangay Camboang, Dumanjug is actually not as scary as the one that showed up in Guatemala City in 2010. The Dumanjug sinkhole is only 10 meters by 8.5 meters wide and 3.5 meters deep. It's not what you call “gaping.

  • Week in TV: Revenge premieres, Absolutely Fabulous and Greys Anatomy return

    NEWS.com.au; Feb. 7, 2012

    Picture: Channel 7 IT'S the traditional start to the new season of Grey's Anatomy - new interns, new chief resident, and a sinkhole in the middle of Seattle the size of that one in Guatemala. It's a huge production, it must've cost them heaps.

  • The Long Drought

    North Coast Journal; Feb. 16, 2012

    Which is why the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico, together with the land farther south into Belize, Guatemala and Honduras is one of the least likely places on Earth in which to grow a civilization. Because of its porous limestone bedrock, ...

  • Paura sinkhole in Russia

    Libero News; Jan. 30, 2012

    Poi, a distanza di alcune settimane, si abbatté di nuovo su Guatemala City, provocando una enorme voragine dalla circonferenza quasi perfetta. La vicenda si ripete a distanza di mesi. Un gigantesco sinkhole, dagli effetti meno disastrosi del precedente ...

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Guatemala sinkhole. (Image by Flickr user horslip5, CC)