Earth Changes and the Pole Shift
Sinkhole Incidents On the Rise
"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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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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"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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lonne rey
Schoolgirl falls into 25ft deep sinkhole while out playing and SURVIVES
Daisy-Mae Jones, 7, fell the equivalent height of a two-storey house and incredibly walked away with just cuts and bruises
Her terrified mother Janine struggled to find little Daisy-Mae at first because of the thick grass, and the search party were led by the schoolgirl's cries for help until they found the hole.
A nearby builder helped to rescue her - and incredibly, she walked away with just cuts and bruises.
Neighbouring builder, Gary Barson, was alerted to the rescue and took his ladders to the hole so Daisy-Mae could climb out.
He said: "She was hysterical. This hole was about 3ft by 4ft and at least 25ft deep. It is amazing she didn't get more seriously hurt."
Source
Jul 3, 2014
Howard
6 Injured After Falling Into Sinkhole on Basketball Court in Philippines (Jul 3)
The hole, which is around three meters in diameter and around 12-foot deep, has a narrow entry and a wide base.
One of the victims, Jhoenavelie Centinales, was with her 4-year-old daughter when she went near the area to look for her brother and son.
She accidentally fell inside the hole, with her brother and son also inside.
Her husband and another brother tried to help them but also fell into the hole.
Centinales said they did not see the hole on the ground because it was dark.
They were all brought to the hospital, but no one suffered from any serious injuries.
Kabankalan City Mayor Isidro Zayco immediately ordered local officials to cordon off the area to ensure the safety of the residents.
He also requested the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) to investigate how the sinkhole suddenly appeared in the area.
Source
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/07/03/14/6-hurt-after-fal...
Jul 4, 2014
Howard
Chicago Apartments Evacuated After Sinkhole Swallows Patio (Jul 4)
Someone flagged down police in the 1400 block of West Chicago Avenue about 1 a.m. after the 20-foot long by 20-foot wide hole opened, police News Affairs Officer Janel Sedevic said. The hole is about 10 feet deep, she said.
Emergency crews evacuated the apartment and coach house behind it but no one was hurt, Fire Media Affairs Chief Larry Langford said.
The hole formed in a concrete area between the coach house and the four-story building, which includes Butterfly Sushi Bar on the first floor and three floors of apartment units above, according to a man who works for the building manager.
The owner of the building decided to vacate all eight units in the apartment and coach house, and would help find tenants other places to stay, according to Amy Simon, spokeswoman for the Chicago Department of Buildings.
A passageway between the basement levels of the coach house and the apartment that had been sealed years ago by a previous owner collapsed under the concrete. Tenants kept patio furniture on the area, which also housed the units’ air conditioners, he said. Restaurant workers used the path to take out trash.
The restaurant will be closed indefinitely, according to the building worker, who declined to give his name.
Alexandra Shoemaker, 24, who lives on the second floor of the apartment, said she came home early Friday to numerous police and fire crews around the building, who told her the building was safe to stay in. She said she decided to stay at her boyfriend’s apartment after she saw the extent of damage this morning.
“I looked down and the back patio was gone,” Shoemaker said.
Witness and resident Melisa Rutkelis said the incident was frightening.
"It's insane, just scary," she said. "You see straight down and it looks like an earthquake."
The exact cause of the sinkhole was not known Friday afternoon as city inspectors evaluate the damage.
Sources
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/West-Town-Building-Home-Evacua...
http://wgntv.com/2014/07/04/patio-collapse-displaces-several-people...
Jul 5, 2014
Derrick Johnson
Deep sinkhole appears in man's yard
Al Schultz peers down a sinkhole on July 4, 2014, while his granddaughter Keirra watches from the driveway. The hole appeared in the front of his home in the Gold Hill area of Fairbanks. Schultz estimates the hole is about 70 to 80 feet deep.
Matt Buxton / News-Miner
Posted: Friday, July 4, 2014 6:57 pm | Updated: 4:56 pm, Sat Jul 5, 2014.
By Matt Buxton / mbuxton@newsminer.com
FAIRBANKS—A Gold Hill resident got a nasty surprise after returning from vacation this week when he discovered a sinkhole diving to depths of a stomach-churning 70 to 80 feet in his front yard.
Al Schultz on Friday had cordoned off the roughly 4-foot wide hole that appeared in a roadside ditch and covered the opening with wood planks. Schultz didn't have a clear solution to the problem.
"I called about three excavation companies and with the holiday got one to come out and look at it," he said. "We tied a truck hitch to his rope and threw it down there."
But the contractor's rope was too short and the hitch dangled somewhere down the hole, Schultz said. To reach the bottom, Schultz tied another length of rope to the contractors' rope.
They measured 82 feet.
But just what it looked like down there, they didn't know, and Schultz couldn't get a quote for the fix at the time.
"I'm worried about standing here, we don't know if it doesn't open up to a cavern below," he said, standing in his driveway a good 15 feet from the opening.
Demonstrating to the News-Miner on Friday, Schultz tossed a rock down the sinkhole and what seemed like about three seconds passed before a thud was heard at the bottom.
After a quick offer and a rope tied around a News-Miner reporter's waist, a camera with a flashlight was lowered down into the sinkhole.
The light from a small LED flashlight on a camera completely disappeared into the hazy dark depths of the sinkhole before coming to rest on the bottom.
Schultz then laid out the rope and with the help of neighbor Fred Kameroff counted out 72 feet.
As far as the disparity in depth with what he measured with the contractor, Schultz wondered if there was a shelf the camera might have got caught on.
A review of the video in Schultz's driveway didn't reveal much other than that the muddy walls of the sinkhole appeared to be mostly smooth and the same width the whole way down, without any apparent presence of caverns or shafts leading off.
"I thought it was 20 to 30 feet maybe," Schultz said, clearly conscious of his footing and distance to the hole. "But this deep is a ways down there. That would hurt."
Schultz said he'll continue to keep cars and his 2-and-a-half-year-old granddaughter Keirra away from the sinkhole until he can get a more solid plan for repairs next week. He also said he will likely plan to approach the university because, after all, it's not every day that a sinkhole like this appears in a front yard.
Source: http://www.newsminer.com/news/local_news/deep-sinkhole-appears-in-f...
Jul 7, 2014
Mark
Sinkhole closes west Quebec highway
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/sinkhole-closes-west-quebec-hi...
Pontiac Mayor Roger Larose says he warned the province a month ago about problems with a highway culvert that likely caused a large sinkhole to appear on Highway 148 on Wednesday.
On Wednesday morning a large sinkhole 10 metres deep and 10 metres wide formed on Highway 148's eastbound lanes, closing the highway in both directions between the communities of Quyon and Luskville, both of which are part of the municipality of Pontiac.
Jul 7, 2014
Mark
Giant sinkhole opens up under Chinese parking lot and takes all the cars with it - July 9
This car park in China collapsed into a pit after a sudden and heavy rainfall washed away the soil beneath.
The stricken building is next to a construction site in Chengdu, in south-west China's Sichuan province.
Five cars dropped 30ft into a deep pit and another left hanging precariously over the edge after the incident, which took place earlier today. Several trees were also dragged in, but no casualties were reported.
Jul 10, 2014
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.1011now.com/centralnebraska/home/headlines/Rain-Causes-R...
Road Collapses in Holstein, Nebraska
The talk the past few days in the small town of Holstein has been about a 25-foot wide sinkhole.
It was first discovered Thursday morning on Powerline road, located southeast of Holstein near Sand Avenue. The road was closed until the hole could be repaired.
The sinkhole is about 15 to 20 feet deep.
Jul 12, 2014
Howard
Giant Sinkhole Opens in Residential Florida Neighborhood (Jul 7)
David Williams left his home at 1:45 p.m. to visit family last Monday. He says by the time 2:20 p.m. hit, it happened that quickly.
He received a call that a sinkhole had opened up across the street from his home. He figured it would be pretty minor, but came home to see his entire road was blocked off and the sinkhole was quite large.
"I never thought that I'd be worried about a sinkhole. Lo and behold, I come home and I was like, 'Whoa.'"
The sinkhole is located on Celosia Way off of Country Kitchen Road in Madison, Florida. Madison is a small town about an hour east of Tallahassee.
Geologists are now studying the hole as it continues to grow bigger. Celosia Way around Williams' home is shut down, but he's able to get in and out.
Even though the large hole is directly across the street, he says he has no plans on leaving his home, unless the cracks get closer.
Now the road department in Madison is calling on geologists to help. Last year, the Florida Geological Survey received a $1 million grant to study sinkholes. They finished the first phase of their study, which started in north Florida.
"We visited and confirmed a little over 200 sinkholes in the pilot study area," said Alan Baker with the Florida Geological Survey.
Source
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/story/news/2014/07/14/sinkhole-north-...
Jul 15, 2014
Tracie Crespo
Sinkhole opens on Port Richmond street
A large sinkhole has opened on a street in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia.
The sinkhole is in the 1800 block of East Venango Street.
Firefighters say the 12 foot hole has compromised the street.
The Philadelphia Streets Department and PGW are on the scene.
The view from the Action Cam showed the area around the sinkhole taped off and the road was apparently closed.
http://6abc.com/184218/ via @6abc
Jul 15, 2014
Howard
Giant Sinkhole Forces Tampa Florida Residents to Evacuate Homes (Jul 19)
The Hernando County Sheriff's Office received a call around 5:20 p.m. describing a sinkhole near Eldridge Road and Van Allen Way.
"Out of nowhere the earth just went straight up in the air and exploded up in the air," said Margaret Helmick, who lives in the neighborhood.
But neighbors still worry that more holes could soon appear and are left to wonder what will be done with this one.
"I never even heard of a sinkhole back home in Ohio. You know what I'm saying?" nearby resident Katie Carter told WFLA. "I just hope that's the end of it. They can patch it up and you all can go home, you know?"
Once it's established that the hole has stopped growing, officials could give the go away to patch the pit using sand and/or cement.
Sources
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/sinkhole-forces-spring-hi...
http://abc7.com/news/another-day-another-sinkhole-emerges-in-florid...
http://www.hlntv.com/video/2014/07/20/sinkhole-florida-evacuation-h...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2699201/Massive-120-foot-wi...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/20/spring-hill-si...
Jul 20, 2014
Howard
40 Meter Sinkhole Opens in Darwin River Australia (Jul 17)
Lance Hart said he heard a 'rumbling kind of like distant thunder.
When he ventured out into his backyard a few days later, he came across a large crack in the earth.
"It looked like a cliff face that wasn’t there two days ago,” he said.
Though it's not the first of its kind in the area, this sinkhole is the biggest locals have ever seen.
Mr Hart likened it to the famous scene from Crocodile Dundee where Paul Hogan's character bragged, 'that's not a knife, this is a knife', and laughed that he now had the biggest sinkhole.
In the below video, Mr Hart walked less than 50 metres from the back of his home and stood at edge of the gaping hole, which swallowed trees and boulders.
His footage shows the sheer size of the sinkhole, estimated to be 40 metres wide and drop down 15 metres to the point where it's filled with water.
"That is a big hole. I have no idea how deep that water is, but from the rocks that are still falling in to it... We're seeing massive boulders slide down and disappear underneath the surface so it's obviously very deep."
Trees as tall as 20 metres which once stood tall where the hole now lies are nowhere to be seen, and experts are unsure whether the gap will continue to expand.
Sources
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2700191/Man-discovers-giant...
http://www.9news.com.au/national/2014/07/21/20/09/sink-hole-opens-u...
Jul 22, 2014
Derrick Johnson
30 families evacuated from Cebu town due to sinkhole
CEBU CITY -- The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Central Visayas, through its Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) 7, will send a geologist to Kinatarcan islet in Santa Fe town in northern Cebu following reports of a sinkhole forming in the area.
The sinkhole, which the Office of the Civil Defense Central Visayas confirmed, reportedly measures 40 feet in diameter and has a depth of about 40 feet.
It was discovered by some residents of the area on Saturday.
The Cebu Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Office said 30 families have been evacuated and the area where the sinkhole formed has been secured.
MGB 7 Director Loreto Alburo has recommended fencing the area and for a signage to be put up to warn people of the possible danger in going near there.
"I strongly advise the local government unit officials to strictly not allow people to come near the sinkhole as we are still determining the extent of its formation," Alburo said.
Alburo said MGB 7's geosciences division chief Al Emil Berador will check the area.
Sinkholes are common where the rock below the land surface is limestone, carbonate rock, rocks that can naturally be dissolved by circulating ground water.
As the rock dissolves, spaces and caverns develop underground.
Sinkholes can be dramatic because the surface land usually stays intact until there is not enough support. A sudden collapse of the land surface can occur.
This was manifested by the sinkholes that formed following the magnitude 7.2 earthquake that struck Central Visayas last year.
As of July 25, about 205 sinkholes have been recorded in Bohol alone.
Source: http://www.interaksyon.com/article/92077/30-families-evacuated-from...
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/372108/news/regions/sinkhole-i...
Jul 28, 2014
Mark
Sinkhole appears in Maidstone East Station car park in Station Road, Maidstone
A sinkhole has opened up in a busy station car park - completely destroying the surface.
The hole, which is now said to be 4m wide and between 3 and 4m deep, appeared in the Maidstone East Station car park early this morning near the entrance. It is blocking around six car park spaces.
A smaller hole has also appeared nearby.
An area of the car park has been cordoned off and engineers have been at the scene today.
A spokesman for Network Rail said specialist contractors were due to start work on filling it and resurfacing tomorrow.
A full survey of the car park to detect any further voids will also be carried out.
Source: http://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/massive-hole-opened-up-i...
Jul 31, 2014
Howard
Truck Falls Into Sinkhole in Central Rome (Aug 1)
The accident happened at around 10am on Friday morning on via Palestro, by Rome’s busy Termini Station.
The sinkhole measured four metres wide by two metres deep.
Police and fire fighters were called to the scene and used a crane to pull the vehicle out of the hole.
The driver is uninjured but suffering from shock, Roma Today said.
The cause of the accident has yet to be determined.
This isn’t the first time a road in the city has suddenly given way.
Last week a car was swallowed up by a sinkhole in via Ruggero Di Lauria in the Vatican, creating chaos in the area. A burst water pipe was thought to be the cause of the accident.
Source
http://www.thelocal.it/20140801/truck-falls-into-sinkhole-in-rome
Aug 3, 2014
Andrey Eroshin
http://www.enews163.com/2014/07/31/hangzhou-metro-line-near-the-sud...
http://news.ycwb.com/2014-07/31/content_7350674.htm
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&a...
Aug 4, 2014
Derrick Johnson
Record-breaking skyscraper threatened by sinkholes
By Euan McKirdy, CNN
updated 9:35 AM EDT, Tue August 5, 2014
CNN) -- The construction of what would be Seoul's tallest building has hit a snag following the appearance of a number of mysterious sinkholes in and around the neighborhood where it is being built.
Residents of South Korea's capital are alarmed by the increasing incidence of sinkholes -- depressions, measuring up to several feet in depth and diameter, which have suddenly appeared around Seoul.
The first one was discovered in June, and since then several others have appeared, local media have reported. Now, in a climate marked by increased safety concerns, the construction of a huge skyscraper in the city has come under scrutiny.
Last month, two holes within a couple of meters of each other were discovered near the National Assembly in the Yeouido district of the capital.
Several examples of this unexplained phenomenon have occurred near the site of the Lotte World Tower, a half-constructed commercial and office development by Korean conglomerate Lotte which, when completed, will be the sixth tallest tower in the world.
Holes have appeared in at least two streets in the Songpa district, where the new tower is being built, including a 50 centimeter (20 inch) wide hole only half a kilometer (a third of a mile) from the Lotte World Tower construction site.
So far, authorities are baffled. "We do not know the cause yet," a police officer told the Korea Times. "In cooperation with Seoul Metro and Seoul Metropolitan Government, we investigated the problem and only found that the holes have nothing to do with sewerage."
A lake near the site, which appears to be shrinking, is also cause for concern. Water levels have fallen about 70 centimeters (27 inches), although Seulki Lee, a spokesperson for Lotte Group, told CNN that it would be "nearly impossible" for the water to drain into the tower's foundations due to a slurry wall between the lake and the construction.
The spokesperson also said that the company was looking into the mysterious sinkholes.
"We are working on an investigation of sinkholes but it will take some time to figure out what's going on," she said.
She said that academics and engineers from Lotte have told the construction company that the sinkholes are not related to the site but it is "necessary to figure out what is going on" to provide assurance for the public.
Plans for the 555-meter (1,821-foot), 123-story tower were first put forward almost two decades ago, but planning permission was slow in coming, due to security concerns from a nearby military base.
Construction of the tower, designed by American firm KPF, is underway and more than half of the tower's floors have been completed. The architecture firm was, at the time of press, unavailable for comment.
Professor Hong Gun Park of Seoul National University's Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering was a consultant on the project, completing an "outsider's evaluation."
He told CNN that the foundations of the building were solid, and that Seoul had no history of subsidence.
"People found sinkholes near the building site, (and) since there is a small lake, they are worried about the robustness of the foundation of the building.
"However, recently many sinkholes were found here and there in Seoul. Furthermore the foundation of the building is deep and is sitting on the deep hard rock. Thus in my opinion there is no problem (with) the structural safety of the building."
He said that it was unlikely that the Seoul municipal government would halt construction without reasonable cause.
The safety concerns over the building come months after the country was shocked by the sinking in April of the Sewol ferry, which lead to widespread criticism throughout South Korea that safety was not a priority. Almost 300 people, mostly teenagers on a school trip, died when the ferry capsized. orv
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/05/world/asia/seoul-skyscraper-sinkholes...
Aug 6, 2014
Howard
Giant Sinkhole Opens on UK Farm (Aug 11)
Water could be seen gushing into the hole as a herd of pigs looked on, clearly in a state of shock following their narrow escape.
Source
http://metro.co.uk/2014/08/12/giant-sinkhole-opens-on-farm-and-near...
Aug 12, 2014
Howard
Sinkhole Swallows Car Near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania (Aug 12)
Emergency crews are on the scene and say the driver of the car was rescued before car was swallowed up by the sinkhole.
The car’s owner, Natalie Huddleston, talked with KDKA’s Ralph Iannotti and told him, “I got in the car, I backed up, I felt a thunk, and all of a sudden I was tilted and I felt movement, I was swaying, I kept drifting back and realized I was stuck in this hole.”
Huddleston says she called the tanning bed owner to come out and help, and she was able to escape through the passenger window.
"My customer had called me … she backed out of the spot and she literally backed right into it or the sinkhole happened right as she was driving," said Hollywood Tans owner Lisa Masley. "She called the salon and asked me to run outside and I ran out and her car was literally like a see-saw in the sinkhole. She put down her driver’s side window and I pulled her out. Within five minutes, the whole car was gone."
“I’m in shock, this is not happening, my car is gone, I’m stuck here, how am I going to get out of work?” Huddleston said.
A second, smaller sinkhole also formed in the parking lot next door, outside Midas and BJ Nails & Spa.
There is also a smell of natural gas coming from the area.
Sources
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2014/08/12/sinkhole-swallows-car-in-...
http://www.wtae.com/news/sinkhole-swallows-car-outside-mcknight-roa...!bCs4cQ
http://www.wpxi.com/news/news/breaking-massive-sinkhole-swallows-ca...
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2014/08/13/mcknight-road-sinkhole-re...
Aug 13, 2014
Mark
Big sinkhole develops on US 61 in Natchez
http://www.wapt.com/news/central-mississippi/big-sinkhole-develops-...!bErT5Z
The Natchez Democrat reported that the hole is nearly 15 feet wide and 25 feet deep.
The Mississippi Department of Transportation has blocked it off with orange barrels, and workers will start repairing it after engineers are confident it won't continue to grow.
A department engineer, Albert White, said the spot started as a small depression and grew into a sinkhole Tuesday night. He said fixing the hole could take several weeks.
Aug 16, 2014
lonne rey
Truck swallowed by 40-square-meter sinkhole in Guangxi
http://shanghaiist.com/2014/08/15/look_behemoth_guangxi_sinkhole_sw...
Aug 17, 2014
Mark
Heavy rains blamed for large north Jackson sinkhole - August 18
After most of the waters subsided from Monday afternoon's flash floods in north Jackson another problem emerged.
A sinkhole across both lanes of East University Parkway developed.
Crews believe several feet of water that flooded the street earlier in the day weakened it causing it to collapse.
A water main was also affected, cutting off water to several homes in the area. Many who live nearby say they expect the road to be impassable for awhile.
"I have never seen the water get this high. This was the first time for me. The water had gotten probably 8 feet deep in that ditch in the past and it was up to the bank this time," said Eddie Wood, who saw the road collapse.
Detours have been set up for drivers to get around the sinkhole.
Aug 20, 2014
Mark
Sinkhole and Sewer Collapse in Mansfield - August 19
http://www.hucknalldispatch.co.uk/news/local/sinkhole-appears-after...
Chad was alerted to this large sinkhole on Mansfield’s Commercial Gate by a reader after some particularly heavy rain.
The road had to be closed and traffic was diverted while an inspection was carried out.
A spokesman for Severn Trent Water said the company had been informed by the Highways Authority of a suspected sewer collapse and had conducted a CCTV survey to check its condition.
She said: “Unfortunately, the survey showed that a section of our sewer had collapsed and was in need of repair.
“To keep both the local community and local traffic safe, we have closed the road, and we would like to apologise for any inconvenience this may be causing.
“The work will be carried out by our contract partner KIER. We will work hard to get the pipe fixed and the road reopened as quickly as possible.”
Aug 21, 2014
Yvonne Lawson
'Terrifying' sinkhole 100ft wide appears overnight in Pennines and it's so deep you can't see the bottom
A 100ft-wide sinkhole that is so deep the bottom cannot be seen at one end has appeared overnight just yards from a farmer's house in County Durham.
John Hensby, 71, says his partner Sam Hillyard, 39, first discovered the hole on Thursday morning, adding that it has been growing ever since.
And Mr Hensby now fears that heavy rain forecast for the coming days could be about to make the situation even worse.
Mr Hensby, 71, who lives in Cowshill, near Bishop Auckland, County Durham, said: 'I am not sure where this will end.
'The hole is still growing. It is astonishing. If you could have heard the bangs, crashes and rumbles when it first happened you would understand how terrifying it was.
'My partner Sam had been walking one of our dogs when she she found it on our land around 80 metres away from our house.
'The land is surrounded by a sheep farm and there are two or three around at the moment. If a sheep was to fall down the hole then that would be the end of it. It would be the same for our two dogs. You wouldn't be able to get to them or even see them.'
Mr Hensby believes the collapse could be linked to 19th-century iron or lead mining in the area, though he has been unable to find evidence of a shaft that may have collapsed.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2732531/Terrifying-sinkhole...
Aug 23, 2014
Derrick Johnson
Giant Sinkhole Consumes Indiana Couple's Backyard
An Indiana couple’s backyard turned into a huge sinkhole -- and it was unclear over who was responsible to fix it.
The sinkhole in Frank and Letitia Casto’s yard used to be about four feet wide and six feet deep. It now measures about 40 feet wide and 30 feet deep.
“it just keeps dropping and swallowing trees, and this is where we are at,” Letitia Casto told ABC News station WLS.
The hole was initially filled with rocks and covered with grass, but it kept growing, swallowing up trees.
“We’ve been complaining to different people for all this time, and everybody just keeps kind of ignoring us,” Frank Casto told WLS. “It could have been a little problem, but it’s turned into a monster, at this point.”
The location of the sinkhole has made the situation more problematic. The Castos’ land borders on three different Indiana towns -- with part of their property in Dyer and another part in in Schererville. Munster is located across the street.
Electrical and gas lines, and sewer pipes underneath the sinkhole are shared by all three municipalities, according to WLS. The towns will be sending engineers to the sinkhole Monday.
“They were throwing it back and forth and no one would take responsibility for it, and that’s why it got to this point," Letitia Casto told WLS.
Source: http://abcnews.go.com/US/giant-sinkhole-consumes-indiana-couples-ba...
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Aug 26, 2014
Howard
Mysterious Crater in Utah Irrigation Pond (Aug 29)
Earlier this week, Gary Dalton of Circleville discovered a mysterious crater that suddenly appeared under the water.
"The sun was just right," Dalton said, "so I saw this blasted thing that no one had ever seen."
He noticed it after most of the water was drained from the pond for irrigation. Just beneath the surface he saw concentric circles in the pond bottom with a diameter of about 25 feet. The outer ring is a circular depression filled with algae. An inner circle looks as though something erupted from beneath, forming what looks startlingly like a small volcanic crater.
Experts from the Utah Geological Survey took a look and were initially baffled.
"Well, yeah, we've got several theories," said veteran geologist Bill Lund as he examined the pond. "Most of them have gone up in smoke."
Most of the theories were disposed of almost immediately. Some had speculated that the feature was caused by a natural spring, pushing up from under the pond after being supercharged by recent rains. But Lund said that theory was quickly disproved by aerial photos that were taken before the pond was excavated 2 ½ years ago.
"This was an alfalfa field and there was no spring here," Lund said. "It's not a spring."
Another theory was that a buried pipeline had been punctured during construction of the pond. But Lund said there is no pipeline.
Another possibility is that there was a burp of methane gas from decaying organic material under the pond. Lund strongly doubts that theory because the local geology isn't the type that sometimes causes such events.
"If we were in coal country," Lund said, "I'd be thinking about that a little harder but, you know, we're not."
Earthquakes sometimes will cause similar features in sand or mud, due to liquefaction of soils. But Lund ruled that out because there have been no earthquakes in the Circleville area powerful enough to trigger liquefaction.
During the geologists' visit, Dalton and his sons maneuvered a platform-lift over the crater to get a closer look.
Although the Daltons saw a fiery meteor in the sky a few weeks ago, Lund has essentially ruled that out as the cause; the sighting took place long before the crater appeared. Also, no one in nearby Circleville reported hearing any loud booms.
"We don't think it's an impact crater," Lund said. "We don't think anything hit there."
Hovering over the crater in the lift, the curious farmers and geologists lowered a tape measure into the crater. The central depression is about 7 inches deep. They were able to push the handle of a pitchfork another 13 inches or so straight down in the soft center.
"Obviously something came up and created this ring," Lund said. "But then it collapsed back on itself and closed off the vent. Whatever the vent was is closed."
"I mean there are still some unanswered questions here," Lund said. "That's for sure."
Source
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865609843/Circleville-farmers-sc...
Aug 29, 2014
Mark
Bus gets stuck in suburban Phoenix sinkhole
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/sep/03/bus-gets-stuck-in-sinkho...
A city bus got stuck in a sinkhole after a water main broke in suburban Phoenix, forcing the passengers and driver to evacuate through the windows.
Tempe police say the back right side of the bus fell into the hole at about 10 a.m. Wednesday. All 11 passengers and the driver got out safely.
It took about two hours for city crews to shut off all the valves and stop the flow of water in the area of Apache Boulevard and McClintock Drive.
Two tow trucks tried to pull the bus from the sinkhole, but authorities say the bus was too heavy. A crane was brought in and hoisted the bus out of the sinkhole around 5 p.m.
Some residents in the area reported water damage in their homes, and the operators of a motel said some guests had to be moved out after water covered the bottom floor.
Authorities say the cause of the water main break hasn't been determined, but it likely was due to the age of the infrastructure. Police say nearby light rail tracks weren't impacted by the water and trains were still operating.
Sep 4, 2014
Mark
Romulus man falls into sinkhole and nearly drowns
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/26467033/romulus-man-falls-into-s...
He opened the garage door to find his classic cars and a giant tool collection threatened. The flood waters were rising at Joe and Denise Klonica's property on Inkster Rd. in Romulus. Denise checked out the back yard as water made its way into the house.
"The water was just gushing out of the back door of my garage going into the backyard like a flowing river," Mr. Klonica told Fox 2.
What happened next was a total shock. Joe stepped out into the front yard and was swallowed up by a deep sinkhole. Without warning, Joe was in over his head -- treading water about eight feet deep and grabbing any earth he could to pull himself up. But, the loose mud was waterlogged and slippery.
"It was scary 'cause as I was grabbing the sides, the dirt was coming in with me," he said.
Fortunately, Joe and Denise had a carpenter at the house installing a new front door. He ran out to the sinkhole and grabbed Joe's arms, pulling him to safety. We're told there may be a water main break in the yard, but crews won't know for sure until they dry it out and do some digging to get a closer look.
Sep 7, 2014
Andrey Eroshin
http://www.kaixian.tv/gd/2014/0907/9136276.html
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Sep 8, 2014
Andrey Eroshin
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Sep 10, 2014
Andrey Eroshin
http://www.nabbaa.com/article-aid-27238.html
Sep 10, 2014
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/oh-cuyahoga/road-collapse-i...
Road collapse in Shaker Heights closes Larchmere EB/WB at E. 129th, motorist should avoid the area
SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio - A road collapse has closed the area of Larchmere east and westbound at E. 129th near Kendall Rd Saturday in Shaker Heights
Officials are asking motorist to avoid the area. Officers are on scene detouring drivers in that area.
No other information is available at this time.
Sep 14, 2014
Mark
The road to hell: major new highway caves in 14 times in six months
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1597909/sinkholes-have-cause...
A major highway that opened in Henan province in April has caved in 14 times, causing a headache for drivers who have been warned to be on the alert for sudden collapses.
The latest hole appeared Friday, ironically opening up beneath a truck cleaning up debris following a previous collapse, mainland media reported.
The incidents have become so frequent that locals have taken to mocking the state of the highway in Zhengzhou city.
The city's construction committee on Friday warned the public about the the sinkholes, but failed to explain the reason for their appearance, the Beijing News reported.
Sep 22, 2014
Yvonne Lawson
Car falls into monster 8-meter-wide sinkhole in Crimean road, 6 dead (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
Six people, including two children died after their car fell into a monster sinkhole in the middle of the highway near the Crimean capital of Simferopol. The hole appeared to be 6 meters deep and 8 meters wide.
The accident happened on the highway between Simferopol and the village of Nikolaevka on Saturday night, said the Emergencies Ministry’s press service in Crimea. The car with eight passengers fell into the pit after the vehicle entered the unlit part of the road.
“A huge sinkhole six meters deep and eight meters wide was formed after the collapse,” said the statement.
According to the medics, six passengers “received injuries incompatible with life.” Among them were 3-year-old twins and a 16-year-old girl.
The rescue workers managed to save a one-year old boy and a 12-year old girl. The preliminary medics’ reports say that a boy has a traumatic brain injury and he is in coma, while the girl has multiple fractures. Both kids are currently receiving emergency treatment.
At least 43 rescue personnel and 16 vehicles were involved in the rescue effort.
The experts are investigating the reasons of the accident.
Read more
Source: http://rt.com/news/191288-crimea-monster-sinkhole-dead/
Sep 28, 2014
Andrey Eroshin
Four adults and two children killed when their car falls into 26ft-wide sinkhole that appeared in Crimean road
Six people - including three-year-old twins - died after their car fell into a 26ft-wide sinkhole in the middle of a main road in Crimea.
Driver Ibrail Eskandarov, 34, was killed instantly along with his wife Eskandarova, 33, their twins, Asan and Muslim, and daughter, Aliye, 16, when their car suddenly plunged down six metres.
The car carrying eight passengers fell into the massive pit after the vehicle entered the unlit part of the road near the Crimean capital of Simferopol.
When the earth caved in below the road, electricity cables were ripped out cutting off power supplies and making it impossible to see.
At least 43 rescue personnel and 16 vehicles were involved in the rescue effort.
The accident happened on the highway between the city of Simferopol in the disputed Southern Crimean Peninsula and the village of Nikolaevka.
Sep 29, 2014
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2776491/Flaw-floor-Lada-4x4...
Flaw by floor: Lada 4x4 falls down giant pothole after road collapses when driver comes to a halt in Ukraine
PUBLISHED: 09:20 EST, 1 October 2014 | UPDATED: 09:25 EST, 1 October 2014
A Ukrainian man miraculously managed to escape unharmed after the road collapsed underneath him as he was driving.
Gordey Efremov was travelling home in the city of Dnipropetrovsk in south-eastern Ukraine, when the ground suddenly vanished below.
Images from the accident show Mr Efremov's 4x4 lying on its side in a giant pothole, practically swallowed by the road.
Mr Efremov had been travelling in his Lada Niva when he suddenly found the ground vanishing underneath him.
He said: ‘Because of the rain, traffic was going slowly anyway and then when the car in front of me stopped I put on the brakes, and slow down.
‘Then I suddenly got this sinking feeling and before I knew it was disappearing into the road.
‘The car tipped onto its side and muddy waters started to flood in through the air vents and door.
‘I had to open the window above and climb out where some people helped me onto the street.
‘I escaped without a scratch but that's more than can be said from the car which was pretty badly broken up.’
Police said the broken drain had been leaking rainwater into the soil underneath the road, washing away the foundations and causing it to collapse when the car stopped.
Police spokesman Leonid Pokrovski said: ‘It was an accident waiting to happen.
‘As long as the cars were moving fast over the top it bore the weight, but once a motorist stopped it was too much and it gave way.’
Oct 1, 2014
Andrey Eroshin
http://www.soy502.com/articulo/hundimiento-calzada-roosvelt-provoca...
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Oct 2, 2014
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.phuketgazette.net/phuket-news/Phuket-downpours-leave-sin...
Phuket downpours leave sinkhole, landslip across roads
Phuket Gazette - October 8, 2014 | 07:45 PM
PHUKET: Workers from the Phuket Highways Office tomorrow will begin repairs to a gaping hole along the southbound lane on the bypass road left behind by the week of heavy downpours across the island.
“We have closed the outside lane and placed warning signs and cones to inform motorists of the hazard,” Phuket Highways Office Director Samak Luedwonghad told the Phuket Gazette today.
Flashing warning lamps have also been set up to prevent nighttime drivers from plunging into the sinkhole, he added.
“We will begin repairs tomorrow, as we have yet to set up the correct equipment at the site,” Mr Samak said.
Meanwhile, Kathu Municipality workers will begin clearing away a landslide that covered Luang Sua Road, which crosses the hills from Kathu to Wichit.
“We are aware of that hazard too, but that road is under Kathu Municipality’s responsibility,” Mr Samak explained.
“Both of these hazards were caused by the non-stop rain we’ve had for the past five days.”
Oct 8, 2014
Derrick Johnson
10-point buck rescue from Iowa sinkhole is caught on video
DECORAH, Iowa —Three Iowans rescued a 10-point buck from a sinkhole near Decorah, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources reported.
Video of the rescue was uploaded to YouTube.
It shows the three using a rope and pulling the deer free from the sinkhole. The video was published on Sept. 27.
The rescue happened at the Winneshiek County farm owned by Gary Smorstad
The DNR reported that while putting up hay, a tractor's tire slipped into the recently opened sinkhole.
Smorstad and the neighbor towed the tractor free and then looked down and saw a deer looking up at them from the sinkhole.
The DNR said Smorstad's son Eric, Gavin Nimrod and Bryton Meyer mounted the rescue.
"It was hard to see; only three or four feet wide and maybe ten feet deep," Nimrod told the DNR. "We made a loop, caught an antler and kept his head up. We decided to tie another rope; Eric and Bryton held my legs and I went down and re-tied it."
The deer appeared to be OK and ran away just after the rescuers pulled him from the sinkhole.
Oct 9, 2014
Starr DiGiacomo
http://tbo.com/pasco-county/sheriffs-office-sinkhole-opens-in-holid...
30-foot-deep hole opens in road at Holiday subdivision
HOLIDAY — A 30-foot-deep hole that opened up in a street Wednesday night blocked the main access road for residents in part of a Holiday subdivision, the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office said.
The 20-by-20-foot hole has closed Blue Marlin Boulevard at Parrot Fish Drive in the Gulfwinds subdivision.
Doug Tobin, a spokesman for Pasco County government, said Thursday morning that an engineering firm, PSI Engineering, is determining whether a sinkhole or some other cause led to the road collapse. The county water department checked the hole and did not see any evidence that a storm water issue might have caused the hole, he said.
Right now, the county is simply referring to the hole as a depression and it appears to be stabilized, he said.
“Could it grow?” Tobin said. “It certainly could grow. We’ve seen it in the past where depressions have grown. But we believe right now that’s where it’s contained to.”
Tobin said it could be as much as a week before any repair efforts start.
“You don’t want to go in filling in dirt until you understand what the problem is,” he said.
The road is a private road with public access, so it’s unclear whether the county or the homeowners association would pay for the repair, Tobin said.
Vernon June, president of the Gulfwinds homeowners association, said Thursday morning that he believes the collapse is the result of a road failure, not a sinkhole. He said residents for some time have complained to the developer, Beazer Homes, about substandard street construction, such as cracking and drainage problems.
“Every manhole is cracking up like that,” June said, pointing to a manhole cover with a crack around it a little south of the hole.
The homeowners association had an engineering study conducted and gave the developer a list of concerns, June said.
A representative for Beazer Homes could not be reached for comment.
Blue Marlin Boulevard exits the Gulfwinds subdivision only at Anclote Boulevard to the south, and dead-ends at the north end.
An emergency cut-through has been set up for trapped residents using a pedestrian path from Swordfish Avenue to Sweetbriar Drive. The cut-through allows access to neighborhood schools Anclote High, Paul R. Smith Middle and Gulfside Elementary.
Tobin said the county is urging residents who use the emergency exit to use caution, especially when students are walking to and from school.
Danny Rowland, who lives on a street about a block south of the hole, said the street problems in Gulfwinds come up routinely at homeowners association meetings, but seeing a section of the road collapse was still a surprise.
“I don’t think anyone expected that,” he said. “I’m glad it’s not someone’s house.”
Oct 9, 2014
Andrey Eroshin
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Oct 12, 2014
Mark
Mystery surrounds the appearance of numerous sinkholes in the Red Cliffs area during the past 12 months, including the latest this week.
http://www.sunraysiadaily.com.au/story/2610134/sinkhole-mystery/?cs=12
Mildura Rural City Council has confirmed up to six sinkholes had been spotted in Red Cliffs, including along Isaacs Lane and Heytesbury Avenue.
The latest appeared on Kauri Street about 12 noon on Monday.
A motorbike rider narrowly missed hitting the 40cm diameter hole thanks to a passing motorist who flagged him in the nick of time.
Resident Tamara Hocking said her husband Peter was on the road five minutes earlier and the sinkhole was not there.
“He was flagged down by another driver who called the police,” Ms Hocking said.
She said the hole was “definitely not” a pothole.
“It was reasonably large, about four feet round and about four feet deep."
Council’s infrastructure services co-ordinator Michael Vaughan said sinkholes had appeared in laneways, local roads and on a nature strip.
He said no one was certain what was causing them, or how to prevent them from reoccurring, but some theories did have weight.
Oct 12, 2014
Mark
Merafong sinkhole 18m wide ... and growing
http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/merafong-sinkhole-18...
Johannesburg - Detours, dust, threats, car crashes and a R25 million repair job. At the centre of it all is a very big hole in Merafong.
On a rainy night on February 21, a sinkhole appeared right next to the R500 main road between Carletonville and the N14 on the way to Rustenburg. It’s just south of where the R41 joins the R500.
The sinkhole is about 18m across and about 25m at the deepest point, and growing.
The road is being blocked off with concrete barriers, running a detour along gravel servitude roads through farmland, a temporary fix that has left tempers frayed.
The owners of the land with the sinkhole, who did not want to be identified, said that passing motorists had threatened to sue them for costs of fuel and vehicle repairs because of the detour. Commuters are fed up with the inconvenience and damage to vehicles, while residents are irritated by the dust, road damage and noise.
“The fear is that it’s going to be a long-term thing. There’s no time frame,” said DA councillor in Merafong City, Judy Rossouw, explaining that repairs hadn’t started as expected last month.
Oct 18, 2014
Mark
Huge sinkhole emerges on county-owned site
http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2014/10/15/huge-sinkh...
A sinkhole the size of a pickup truck opened up overnight Wednesday on a county-owned parking lot behind the former TK Tripps restaurant at College and South Charlotte streets.
Heavy rains Tuesday apparently opened up the crater, according to local developer Rusty Pulliam, who with a partner is building a retail/office complex on the site.
Oct 18, 2014
Howard
EXACT MOMENT SINKHOLE FORMS CAPTURED ON VIDEO:
Cement Mixer Swallowed by Sinkhole in Russia (Oct 20)
Adam Zubarev, 47, had been heading to a building site in the city of Voronezh in western Russia's Voronezh Oblast when he suddenly came to an abrupt stop after the ground collapsed underneath him.
He said: 'I was travelling pretty fast when suddenly I felt the truck bump as if it had hit something and come to a stop, which sent me flying forward. I had absolutely no idea what had happened but then it started lifting in the air and suddenly I was looking at the sky. I opened the door and jumped out as quickly as possible and realised that almost the entire lorry had vanished into a hole in the ground.'
In total it was in the ground for almost two days. Yefremov said: 'We couldn't risk putting up a crane until we had tested the rest of the ground to make sure there weren't any other surprises.'
Source
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2805029/Gulp-moment-giant-c...
Oct 23, 2014
Mark
GUAM: Massive Sinkhole/Water Main Break
http://www.guampdn.com/article/20141030/NEWS01/141030005/Sinkhole-c...
Motorists are advised to expect slow-moving traffic on Route 16 during rush hour this afternoon because of a 100-foot by 25-foot sinkhole that caused continued closure of the inner south-bound and north-bound lanes near a tire depot and the Guam National Guard complex in Barrigada.
The hole was caused by 24-inch water line break, according to the Navy.
The Navy water line supplies water from the Radio Barrigada reservoir to the Navy's assets, including the nearby Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station and a private residence bordering federal property. Water service has been restored, the Navy stated in a press release.
Crews from Naval Facilities Engineering Command Marianas and DZSP 21 LLC worked throughout last night and repaired the broken 24-inch water line.
Crews are still on the scene evaluating the 100-foot by 25-foot hole caused by the water line break, according to the Navy.
Temporary road repairs will begin this afternoon but residents are advised to remain cautious and to expect increased traffic during this evening’s rush hour, according to the Navy.
Oct 30, 2014
lonne rey
A chink in the Boone Dam’s armor has Tennessee Valley Authority officials starting the annual depth drawdown of Boone Lake about five weeks ahead of schedule.
http://www.johnsoncitypress.com/article/121661/seepage-at-bottom-of...
Nov 1, 2014
Mark
Giant sinkholes cause fear in Wheeland estate
http://tcweeklynews.com/giant-sinkholes-cause-fear-in-wheeland-esta...
Nov 6, 2014
Starr DiGiacomo
http://ewn.co.za/2014/11/07/CT-woman-escapes-death-after-car-gets-t...
CT WOMAN ESCAPES DEATH AFTER CAR ENGULFED BY SINKHOLE
A couple, who witnessed the incident, rushed to the woman's rescue by pulling her out of her car.
CAPE TOWN – A Parow woman narrowly escaped death when her car became engulfed by a sinkhole in Low Road, Wetton.
Cape Town local Ayesha Parker was driving home one evening when she suddenly felt the road collapse underneath her. The next moment, her car had sunk deep into the earth and all that surrounded her was gravel.
“I was in a hole and I didn’t know I was in a hole. The hole covered the entire car right up to the roof. I was terrified.”
A couple, who had witnessed the incident, rushed to Parker’s rescue by bravely pulling her out of her car to safety.
“They saw the car disappear into the ground. They just told me to get out immediately. I stood on my seat and they dragged me to safety. As they did that, the car sunk further and immediately started to fill with water.”
Mayoral Committee member for Utility Services Ernest Sonnenbergsays an investigation shows that a water main had burst which caused a hole to develop. The earth then gradually seeped into it.
The road that was covered by the tar had eventually weakened to the point that it fell into the hole that had been building up for a while.
Sonnenberg says although incidents like this rarely happen in Cape Town, he apologised to Parker who says she is still traumatised by the experience.
He says Parker has to lodge an insurance claim with the City of Cape Town to replace her car.
Nov 7, 2014
Howard
Harrisburg Pennsylvania Holds Sinkhole Summit (Nov 7)
Pennsylvania has two dilemmas when it comes to sinkholes: limestone and water. Both are inescapable, and both cost municipalities millions of dollars in headaches.
Mayor Eric Papenfuse said the summit is a first for the area and might be a first in the nation.
"This isn't just a Harrisburg problem," Papenfuse said. "It's a statewide problem."
People packed into the room at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Friday to debate how to fix sinkholes and fund repairs.
Harrisburg has been plagued by neighborhood-wide sinkholes that have displaced many residents in recent years.
Sources
http://cumberlink.com/news/local/communities/harrisburg/sinkhole-so...
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2014/11/harrisburgs_sink...
Nov 9, 2014
Mark
Gulp: The moment giant Florida sinkhole swallows car whole
A sinkhole has swallowed a car in Florida and caused six homes to be evacuated after appearing on a driveway yesterday morning.
The hole was barely 4ft wide by 4ft deep when fire crews arrived at the mobile home in Holiday, Florida, at around 10.45am - but by 11 am it had grown to 10ft by 10ft.
The family living at 1728 Torch St, where the hole opened up, have been told their house will be condemned - while five neighbouring families were also evacuated.
Nov 11, 2014