Sinkhole Incidents On the Rise

[Howard]

"Stretch zones primarily experience sinking ground, as the support in the rock strata is stretched thin. Thus, buildings implode and gas and water mains break."  ZetaTalk

 

 

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ZetaTalk

What happens to rock layers under a diagonal pull, or being pulled apart? As can be seen during recent years, this has resulted in derailing trains, sinkholes suddenly appearing, gas and water main breaks, torn roadways and separating bridges. Despite the effect on man, crawling about on the surface of what they assume to be terra firma, these changes are superficial. When the pulling starts, weak points break and thereafter the plumbing and roadways hold, giving the impression that the pulling has stopped, but this is misleading. The North American continent is giving evidence that its rock layers are separating from each other, and sliding sideways in a diagonal, thus exposing portions of these layers to vent into the air above. If rock is being stressed, then where are the earthquake predictors giving evidence of this, the frantic animals, the static on the radio, the earthquake swarms? Rock in the stretch zone, pulling apart rather than compressing, does not emit the particles flows that animals and radios sense, nor register on instruments are tension and release quakes.

 

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ZetaTalk

"We have repeatedly stated that the Earth changes will not diminish, but will increase going into the pole shift.

This is not a lineal matter, as the closer Planet X comes to Earth, an inevitable path, the more the torque effect and the polar wobble where the N Pole of Earth is pushed away violently on a daily basis, occur. The wobble will become more pronounced, more violent. The plates are tugged back West of the Atlantic, pulled forward East of the Atlantic, during the daily rotation of the Earth. The North American continent is allowed to roll East during rotation while the S Pole is pulled West, creating the diagonal pull likely to trigger the New Madrid fault line into an adjustment, and soon. The N Pole is pushed away and allowed to bounce back, daily, as the Earth rotates, a wobble that puts stress on all fault lines when the plates are suddenly in motion, and suddenly stopped!

"As there is no other explanation for the effect on the stretch zone, lacking any earthquakes to blame, and as these stretch zone accidents will continue to emerge, and with ferocity, this is a certain clue to those on the fence, that the influence of Planet X is the cause. Or is it Global Warming?" 

ZetaTalk Chat Q&A for April 13, 2013

"Sinkholes almost invariably form in areas subject to karst limestone cavern formation. Underground water flows eat away the limestone leaving vast caverns and caves, which often give scant indication above ground that a cavern lies below. Karst limestone rock formations have been mapped and are known, however, but since one never knows just where a cavern might have formed, this provides little help in predicting just where a sinkhole might form. Sinkholes open up when the rock is fractured due to stress from being in the stretch zone, from the bending of a plate, or due to torsion."

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[Mistress Sindra]

'Sinkhole' causes rail chaos

RAIL services between Ledbury, Malvern and Worcester have been halted after a hole appeared in the line at Colwall.

Services this morning were cancelled, leaving hundreds of travellers stranded or scrambling to make alternative arrangements.

According to the London Midland website: "Train services running through these stations may be cancelled or terminated at and started back from Worcester Shrub Hill at short notice.

All stations between Worcester Shrub Hill and Hereford will not be served.

"An estimate for the resumption of normal services will be provided as soon as the problem has been fully assessed."
http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/9779859._Sinkhole__causes_rail_...

[KM]

Saskatoon is in the stretch zone,

The movement of ground in a Saskatoon neighbourhood close to the river continues and it is affecting more roads, officials said Friday.

The slump, described as a slope failure, has caused extensive damage in the Nutana neighbourhood, especially along 11th Street East and Saskatchewan Crescent.

On Friday morning officials said the ground moved another 30 centimetres overnight.

The ground had moved about 1.5 metres on Thursday.

It caused extensive damage to a backyard and a utility pole.

Residents are being told to stay out of back lanes and back yards in the affected area. Barricades have been put in place to limit access.

The city also said Friday that electricity to the area was back on again. It was turned off because of the damage to the utility pole.

However, there are plans to turn off the power on Saturday so that some monitoring equipment can be installed. The city said the power would be out between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Saturday and tentatively 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Sunday. The outage would affect all the homes that were without power in the 200 to 300 block of Saskatchewan Crescent, as well as the homes on the odd address side of 11th Street East.

Natural gas service, however, will remain shut off for many residents. About half of the affected customers, around 250 places, were set to have service restored.

Water has not been affected.

Mark Gimby has lived in his home in the area, which was built in 1920, for more than ten years.

He said Friday that he is leaving Saskatoon to spend the weekend at a cabin.

"Of course we're concerned," he said of the situation with the ground. "But not too much. We stayed in our house last night."

While city officials offered a place for people to stay on Thursday night, but no one took them up on that.

They are now advising residents to be cautious.

"It's not safe to go touring around the lane in the immediate affected area," Mike Gutek, from the city, said Friday. "We don't think it's wise to be uncareful in your backyard, particularly with things that can fall over."

One expert says nature is likely the driving force behind the slumping of the riverbank.

The Centre for Hydrology at the University of Saskatchewan has been tracking the potential impact of record-high water tables in the province. Scientists at the centre have noted there is more water than ever moving through the ground and that could be a contributing factor to what is happening in Saskatoon.

"Riverbanks naturally fail for lots of reasons," Cherie Westbrook, a professor at the centre explained to CBC News Friday. "The streams cut into the stream bank and the soils destabilize and they slump and that happens naturally."

Westbrook also said that with more water around, soil gets soaked and loses some of its cohesive strength.

"The soils fail," she said. "They can't stick together very well."

[Mistress Sindra]

Motorist unknowingly drives into sinkhole in Michigan
A Michigan driver is going to think twice before driving over any more puddles the SUV tried to drive over a big puddle of water that turned out to be a sinkhole! The car fell straight in and public work crews had to pull the driver to safety.
The road is now under repair.
http://www.ksla.com/story/18859615/check-this-out-motorist-unknowin...

[Mistress Sindra]

Massive sinkhole swallows Florida home
A home in Hudson, Fla., along Florida's west coast, was ripped apart Wednesday after a massive sinkhole opened beneath it.
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/21/12340572-massive-sinkh...

[Sandor Daranyi]

A four-metre square sinkhole opened up in a major downtown Montreal street just hours after a massive student protest had marched over it.

The protest, which attracted tens of thousands of people, had already passed and gone down another street when the four-metre-deep sinkhole opened up late Tuesday afternoon.

Denis Roy, an operations chief with the Montreal fire department, said there were no injuries to any passersby.

Public works officials are attempting to determine the cause of the collapse.

The sinkhole is located not far from McGill University on Sherbrooke Street, one of Montreal's key east-west arteries.

The collapse, which happened around rush hour, added to the headaches of drivers already dealing with detours because of the huge student protest over tuition fee hikes and a special law to limit demonstrations.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/05/22/pothole-ope...

[Beva]

Flooding leaves wake of damage in region

Wirtz. Va

Flash flooding Monday night and Tuesday morning hit Rockbridge and Franklin counties especially hard, leading to road closures, stranded residents, evacuations in some areas and at least one swift-water rescue. The high waters receded quickly Tuesday morning in most places, often leaving debris behind.

http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/308848

[Howard]

ANOTHER massive sinkhole opens up in Florida (May 11) -

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2144298/ANOTHER-massive-sin...

A massive sinkhole has opened up in a family's garden in north Florida, forcing them out of the home they built 37 years ago.

The 80-foot-long and 40-foot-wide sinkhole began appearing on Friday and, with the hole creeping further towards their home, Robert 'Robin' and Rhonda Matheny moved out on Sunday.

A geologist inspected the sinkhole and told the couple it would most probably move closer to their Jonesville home so they moved into their son's house in Gainesville, The Gainesville Sun reported.

[KM]

http://saskatoon.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20120507/sask-sas-...

sounds like the ground opened up under a store with a sewer collasping as a result.

CTV Saskatoon

Date:  Tuesday May. 8, 2012 8:03 AM CST

A collapsed storm sewer that flooded an underground transformer vault is being blamed for explosions and power outages in downtown Saskatoon Monday afternoon.

Hundreds of people were evacuated from residences at the Second Avenue Lofts and an adjacent office building shortly after 2:30 p.m. when a series of explosions under the sidewalk in the 200 block of Second Avenue North spewed black smoke into the air.

Investigators have traced the source of the incident to a collapsed storm sewer pipe underneath a catch basin that resulted in the transformer vault being flooded with water.

Saskatoon Light and Power says the pump within the vault was working, but it couldn't discharge the water as the catch basin was not functioning properly.

A resulting power failure in the downtown area saw business close their doors and thousands of people were asked to evacuate downtown buildings, including Midtown Plaza.

City crews were able to restore power to all affected areas before midnight Monday.

-with Canadian Press Files

[Beva]

WINDERMERE --   Florida

Crews in Orange County are working to stop a large sinkhole from growing behind a Windermere home.

The sinkhole opened up in the backyard of a home on Indian Deer Road, in a subdivision off County Road 535 at Tilden Road.

At last check around 9:30 a.m. Thursday, the hole has grown to about 100 feet by 100 feet. Officials said only about 2 feet separate the sinkhole from the back of the home.

Crews said the hole is about 50 feet deep, and has swallowed up several oak trees, which look like bushes in the bottom of the massive hole.

The family renting the home has been evacuated, including four children, a cat and a dog. They said they had only been living there for two months.

Firefighters have begun helping the family move their belongings.

Family members said a hammock their son was lying on just Wednesday night is now at the bottom of the sinkhole, tied to two trees.

http://www.cfnews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/con...

[bill]

HCM City targets end to dead holes

Ho Chi Minh City is going to take drastic measures to deal with dead holes on roads this monsoon season.

 

At the beginning of April, after several out of season storms, dead holes caused by sudden subsidence have again began to appear in the city, a situation which is likely to worsen when the rainy season begins in earnest.

Dead holes have regularly appeared in the city during the last decade, but this year has been notable for several incidents. The appearance of dead holes has become increasingly frequent following the construction of increasingly larger infrastructure construction, causing a danger to traffic.

According to the data released by the municipal Department of Transport, 64 dead holes were reported in 2010. That number increased to 100 in 2011. At the beginning of 2012, though the monsoon season has yet to start, several dead holes have already appeared.

The latest case happened on the afternoon of April 14 when a dead hole appeared at the Hong Bang-Ngo Quyen crossroads in District 5. In March, another hole appeared on Cach Mang Thang Tam Street in District 3. In February, two holes appeared at the crossroads of Pasteur-Han Thuyen in District 1 and on Ly Thuong Kiet Street in Tan Binh District.

To minimise road subsidence and maintain traffic safety in the city this rainy season, the department has required construction units to strictly supervise construction work.

The department also directed that the supervisory consultative groups were compulsory to be present at construction sites when constructing joints and re-surfacing roads, especially when covering geo-textile and embanking stones around manholes.

The agencies under the department were urged to seriously investigate these problems, ensuring that old infrastructure is not combined with new works, and that local drainage remains unimpeded. The inspections will also ensure that there are sufficiently safe barriers around deep holes and construction firms have been tasked with ensuring that they leave sites entirely safe on finishing.

Also, all construction units were required to quickly check the joints among underground drainage pipes to detect potential leaks or blockages.

Unused underground drainage pipes also need to be checked regularly and secured if necessary. Concrete and cement may be pumped into pipes to ensure road subsidence does not occur.

If construction units and supervisory consultative groups don’t carry out these requirements and later incidents occur, strict sanctions will be applied.