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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Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/sinkhole-swallows-car-in-downtown-st...
Sinkhole swallows car in downtown St. Louis
ST. LOUIS - A chaotic scene in downtown St. Louis Thursday morning after a sinkhole swallowed a car.
The incident occurred around 6:30 a.m. near the intersection of 6th Street and Locust. The car’s owners were inside a nearby gym when their car went down into the sinkhole. No one was injured.
The car was removed by a crane around 9 a.m.
Jun 30, 2017
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.thebigwobble.org/2017/07/flames-and-smoke-as-major-bubbl...
Monday, 3 July 2017
Flames and smoke as a major bubble of methane explodes causing another massive sinkhole in Russia's Yamal Peninsula
Photo yournewswire.com
Locals say they saw flames and smoke as a major bubble of methane blasted below the surface and created another sinkhole in the Russian Arctic peninsula.
Reindeer herders in the area of Seyakh, a village on the eastern coast of the Yamal Peninsula in the morning of June 28th reported the incident to the local authorities.
They say that they from the distance saw flaring flames and a column of smoke from the area, TASS reports.
It is believed that the explosion took place place about 30-40 km from Seyakh.
Russian space authorities have been requested to localise the exact site of the incident.
The Yamal Peninsula covers a more than 700 km long area between the Gulf of Ob and the Kara Sea and is among Russia's least populated regions.
It is inhabited mostly by the indigenous reindeer herding Nenets people and a gradually increasing number of oilmen.
It is not the first explosion of its kind.
Over the last years, several major methane blasts have occured in the gas-rich peninsula.
In 2014, a major sinkhole was discovered not far from Bovanenkovo, the area which houses one of Russia's biggest natural gas fields.
That has a diameter of up to 60 meters.
There are at least ten known sinkholes in the Yamal Peninsula, as well as about 250 lakes and numerous offshore structures which indicate similar phenomena, Interfax reports.
It is not rare that the sinkholes are triggered by methane explosions with fires and smoke,
Vasily Bogoyavlensky, a research leader at the Russian Academy of Sciences, says to the news agency.
Over the last couple of years, the regional oil and gas industry has placed censors in the area which they hope will be able to tell about new and upcoming sinkholes.
The measurement instruments are now on site in Bovenenkovo, Sabetta and Kharasavey, all of them key sites for the gas industry in the area.
The methane explosions in the region could be spurred by the warmer temperatures and climate change in the Arctic.
As the permafrost melts it releases gas hydrates preserved in the ground.
Jul 3, 2017
Tracie Crespo
Massive sinkhole swallows two homes and a boat in Florida - July 14
Dramatic video showed the home in Land O’ Lakes, north of Tampa in Pasco County, collapsing into the hole Friday morning. It quickly engulfed one home and a boat and then consumed about 80 per cent of another home, said Kevin Guthrie, Pasco County’s assistant county administrator for public safety.
By Friday afternoon, the hole stretched up to 76 metres wide and 15 metres deep, and threatened to damage a third home, Guthrie said.
Pasco County Fire Chief Shawn Whited told reporters that no one was home when crews responded to a call about a “depression” under a boat in the backyard of a house in Lake Padgett Estates in Land O’Lakes. Within minutes, he said, “the hole opened up” and the boat fell in.
Firefighters were able to get two dogs out of the home and retrieve some belongings before the first home started collapsing into the quickly expanding hole.
Sheriff Chris Nocco said that within roughly nine metres of the sinkhole, the ground was soft underfoot and felt like it was moving.
“Walking down the street, you can see in people’s eyes the anxiety level. They’re fearful,” Nocco said.
Eleven homes were evacuated, including the two destroyed. County property records show there was a sinkhole at the property where the first house was swallowed up, and that it had been stabilised in 2014.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/massive-sinkhole-swal...
Jul 14, 2017
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.kvia.com/weather/sinkhole-swallows-woman-in-her-car-afte...
Sinkhole swallows woman in her car after storm drain collapse
Posted: Jul 22, 2017 10:47 PM MDT
EL PASO, Texas - A woman and her car were swallowed by a sinkhole in west El Paso after a storm drain collapsed under the road.
The woman drove into a residential neighborhood to avoid ponding water when she ended up above the collapsing storm drain.
Paulo Cardenas, a taquero who was standing outside a neighborhood house when this happened, explained the woman was safe and unhurt when he and other neighbors pulled her out.
On Villa Hermosa and La Placita, close to Belvedere and Westwind, where the woman was standing in her car when the ground collapsed under her,. She told ABC-7 she was making a u-turn when the ground collapsed below the back part, leaving the car pointing upward. She called 911 wand was still on the phone when the part in front of her car also collapsed, leaving her car level. She then rolled down here window and climbed out, reaching up for the street.,it’s there that the taquero and other neighbors pulled here up.
Once Cardenas and neighbors pulled her out the ground and car sunk even more,they lifted her just in time.
El Paso Water explained a storm drain had collapsed under the road, creating the sinkhole.
The woman showed us scrapes on her arms, the only marks she had of the episode. She was too shaken to speak on camera, but said she was grateful for the help.
Jul 23, 2017
Starr DiGiacomo
https://newsco.com.au/newsco-com-au-road-in-istanbuls-uskudar-colla...
NewsCO.com.au – Road in Istanbul’s Üsküdar collapses, parked car pulled into hole
A road in Istanbul’s Üsküdar district on the Asian side of the city collapsed Monday, swallowing up a parked vehicle.
No immediate injuries were reported as a result of the caved in road.
The incident occurred at around 3:00 p.m. local time near the famous tourist hotspot Çamlıca Hill, which is known for its panoramic view of the southern part of Bosphorus Strait and the mouth of Golden Horn.
Police units cordoned off the road in question, closing it to traffic on both sides, while experts began investigating the cause of the collapse.
Media sources stated that the construction of a highway tunnel connecting the Çamlıca and Libadiye neighborhoods was being carried out beneath the collapsed road.
No official statement has been given regarding any damage on the planned tunnel.Aug 1, 2017
SongStar101
Florida's giant sinkhole has now claimed SEVEN homes: Three more properties are condemned by the 260ft void that is still growing
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4768748/Two-homes-condemned...
A seventh home has been condemned because of a Florida sinkhole that swallowed two homes in July.
The seventh house was condemned Monday morning, after two were condemned Sunday and two on Friday.
The sinkhole at Lake Padgett Estates in Tampa first opened up on July 14 and destroyed two homes when the ground caved in.
The sinkhole got bigger Friday night and is now about 260 feet wide at its widest point.
The sinkhole, pictured above on July 14, swallowed two homes and a boat. No one was injured in the collapse
Crews brought in earth to stabilize the banks. Once the edges are stabilized, workers hope to remove debris.
Authorities hope to create a boat ramp so they can work from a barge, which will float on water in the sinkhole.
Overnight on Friday, an 80 by 10-foot-wide section of the sinkhole's banks collapsed.
The sinkhole had previously been 235 feet wide and 50 feet deep.
Cleanup was expected to begin on Friday but had to be postponed after the banks collapsed.
County spokesman Doug Tobin said officials were reluctant to say the sinkhole was growing wider without a geological survey.
He said the banks aren't considered a part of the sinkhole.
The sinkhole swallowed two homes and a boat back on July 14. No one was injured in the collapse.
Besides the two swallowed homes, residents in three other nearby homes were displaced because of the risk.
The edges of the sinkhole started caving in because there was no support for the sandy soil as it started to dry out, officials said last month.
As the water in the sinkhole recedes, the sand on the right-angled banks can't support the weight of the ground and it's giving away.
Engineers believe the solution lies in quickly getting dirt into the area to create a sloping bank that can keep the edges of the sinkhole from falling in.
Pasco County's risk manager told officials that the response to the sinkhole could cost at least $1.5million but it will be likely much more.
Aug 9, 2017
Derrick Johnson
Man, 58, falls into a 10-foot sinkhole while walking between two parked cars in Philadelphia
A 58-year-old man had to be rescued after falling into a 10-foot sinkhole while walking between parked cars in Philadelphia.
Eugene Clarke stepped off the curb between the cars in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood in the city's northwest late on Saturday night when he fell.
The sinkhole was about two feet wide and 10 feet deep.
Eugene Clarke, 58, stepped off the curb between the cars in his Strawberry Mansion neighborhood in Philadelphia late on Saturday night when he fell into the sink hole
Clarke was pictured lying at the bottom of the hole for about 25 minutes before responding fire crews could rescue him.
He was taken to Temple University Hospital for treatment. He suffered non-life threatening ankle, wrist and lower back injuries.
'My hip and my back a little bit hurts,' he told NBC. 'It's just shocking. It was a shocking situation to be in that hole.'
Clarke said residents in the neighborhood had first reported the sinkhole to the water department on Thursday.
Officials from the department taped off the area surrounding the hole and put up hazard cones.
Clarke said a car had knocked down the cones and he was going to stand them back up around the gaping hole when he fell down.
'The hole has been here about a week now,' he said. 'They could have even put a cover, one of those steel plates that you can move them but nobody would have been able to fall in that hole there.'
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4789056/Man-falls-10-foot-s...
Aug 15, 2017
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.express.co.uk/travel/articles/847307/viral-video-imgur-d...
WATCH: Terrifying moment huge sinkhole opens on busy motorway (Siberia)
A VIRAL video shows the terrifying moment a driver narrowly avoids a huge accident on a motorway.
PUBLISHED: 20:33, Tue, Aug 29, 2017
The video shows the scary moment that a car nearly gets caught in a huge accident on a motorway.
Filmed in Siberia, the video shows a long line of stationary cars whilst queueing on the road.
However, suddenly a huge sinkhole begins to open up on the road.
The driver narrowly avoids the danger through some luck.
The car appears to drive forwards to avoid it as the hole begins to open up.
The road then collapses into a circle shape, with no cars being dragged down.
However, no-one appears to get out of their vehicles to escape the dangerous situation.
Imgur users were just as confused.
One questioned: “At what point do you just get the f*** out of the car?”
Other users thought that the other cars were at fault for not moving.
Another commented: “I would have slammed the gas and shoved those other idiots out of my way.”
One Imgur user found the funny side, asking “Traffic so bad they're installing pools.”
Aug 30, 2017
Yvonne Lawson
Huge sinkhole emerges from Storm Lidia in Mexico
AN ENORMOUS sinkhole has appeared in the middle of a street as tropical storm Lidia lashes Mexico
Tropical Storm Lidia strengthened after moving into the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California peninsula on Thursday.
Barrelling through the resorts of Los Cabos, the storm is blowing maximum sustained winds of 65 mph and moving north-northwest, the National Hurricane Centre said.
And about 1,400 people have been forced to seek refuge at storm shelters in area as heavy rains spread across a swathe of Mexico, including Mexico City where flooding briefly crossed the city’s airport.
In downtown Mexico City, a huge sinkhole of almost 30 feet in diameter opened up in the middle of the street thanks to an accumulation of water.
The massive sinkhole is about 30feet wide
The collapse was just yards away from the Paseo de la Reforma, a popular tourist attraction.
The storm is expected to produce total rainfall of 6 to 12 inches across the Mexican states of Baja California Sur, Baja California, Sinaloa and the coastal section of Sonora, with isolated maximum amounts of 20 inches, the NHC said.
Flash floods could also occur, with Lidia expected to bring a dangerous storm surge to Mexico’s coasts.
Lidia is expected to remain a tropical storm during the next day or so, though gradual weakening is forecast, it added.
Read more: http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/848959/Hurricane-Irma-sinkhole-...
Sep 1, 2017
Yvonne Lawson
Penang floods: Large sinkhole appears in Tanjung Bungah
GEORGE TOWN: A landslide-cum-sinkhole tore up a road in front of a row of newly-built luxury houses on a hillside in Tanjung Bungah early Sunday.
The landslide occurred at Persiaran Tanjung Bungah 3, and the land slipped down to the base of a towering condominium downhill.
The sheer retaining wall between the houses and the condominium tower gave way and tonnes of laterite earth pushed a steel wall outwards.
It is believed that the houses are unoccupied and no casualties were reported.
Read more at http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2017/11/05/penang-floods-larg...
Nov 5, 2017
Howard
Massive Sinkhole Forms in Minas Gerais, Brazil (Nov 6)
Fazenda Santa Cruz is 30 kilometers from the city. According to the owner, Diogo Tudela, the hole opened between 5 and 6 November and was discovered by a resident. "You can not imagine the size of the hole," he said.
The phenomenon had never occurred on the property before.
The farm owner hired a photographer with a drone to take the images.
They believe that the diameter is 15 or 20 meters and they could not calculate the depth.
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https://www.geologyin.com/2017/11/mysteries-huge-hole-opens-up-in-m...
Nov 20, 2017
Starr DiGiacomo
http://strangesounds.org/2018/01/malaysia-sinkhole-swallows-car-hou...
70-meter-long and 15-meter-deep sinkhole swallows car in Malaysia
Jan 17, 2018
Three people escaped death when their car plunged into a giant, 70-meter-long sinkhole and 15-meter-deep sinkhole that swallowed up half of the road they were driving on near Mersing, Malaysia. The cave-in occurred at about 2.30am on January 15, 2018 due to the continuous rainfall of the past several days. For safety reasons, Jalan Jemaluang which connects Mersing and Johor Baru is temporary closed off to traffic. However, the 3 passengers escaped unhurt.
and another sinkhole event in PA
http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/bethlehem/index.ssf/2018/01/sinkhol...
Seven Bethlehem townhomes have been condemned by the city after a private water main broke and two sinkholes opened up in the 2400 block of Blake Court.
After an inspection by a structural engineer, the city deemed the seven homes in the Spring Garden Townhouses complex currently uninhabitable, Bethlehem Fire Department Capt. Allan Burghardt said Monday. Units numbered 2442 through 2454 are affected.
Some cracking was visible on the brick to the rear of one of the units as crews worked on two sinkholes at either end of the units.
An emergency shelter has been opened in neighboring Spring Garden Elementary School and the Red Cross of the Greater Lehigh Valley is assisting evacuees, Burghardt said.
About 14 residents have been displaced from the condemned units, a representative of the complex's Altman Management Company said.
"We have everybody here doing whatever they can to get this remedied in a quick amount of time," the representative said.
Crews are working to repair the water main break, which was reported early Monday, and the sinkholes. The contractor has been able to isolate the broken water main and is working on a repair, according to the management company.
The break occurred on private property, explained Edward Boscola, city director of water and sewer resources. A city water crew was assisting in isolating the break and tying back the line, but the responsibility for the repair lies with the property owner and a private contractor, he explained.
Water has been cut off to all of the Spring Garden units east of North Boulevard and UGI Utilities has turned off the gas service for the condemned homes and an adjacent building of townhouses, Burghardt said. UGI is working to isolate the gas line, so service can be restored to the occupied building he said.
Officials are hopeful that water and gas service will be fully restored to all residents, except for the condemned homes, by the end of the day, Burghardt said.
Altman has a construction contractor and engineer drafting a repair plan for the units with the hopes they can begin work on Tuesday and get residents home as soon as possible, the company said.
Jan 19, 2018
Starr DiGiacomo
https://www.rt.com/news/417684-mystery-sinkhole-nice-beach/
‘Geyser? Volcano?’ Locals puzzled by mystery sinkhole at Nice beach (PHOTO)
A sinkhole 5 meters in diameter and 2 meters deep, filled with brackish water, emerged on Lido beach in Nice, along the famous Promenade des Anglais, local media report. Locals were stunned by its perfect roundness. Some wondered what may have caused the phenomenon.
“It's either a volcano or a geyser,” one Nice resident told 20minutes outlet. Others suggested the crater was from “a meteorite.”
The tram runs beneath [the place], and the ground moves down,” another local said.
Authorities say the hole, which began forming on Wednesday, doesn’t pose any danger to public safety.
“No worries, it's a natural phenomenon that happens four times a year. And for journalists – no, the tram did not make a detour,” Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi tweeted.
Feb 2, 2018
KM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5366381/Eight-dead-three-mi...
Massive sinkhole the size of two basketball courts swallows eight-lane road in a Chinese city, leaving at least eight dead
Eight people have died and three remain missing in southern China after a massive sinkhole yesterday swallowed a major road in the middle of a city.
The eight-lane road caved in after a water leak occurred on the construction site of a subway station in Foshan, a city of seven million people, authorities said Thursday.
Nine people were rescued from the sinkhole, which is said to be as big as two basketball courts. The condition of the survivors are reportedly stable.
A sinkhole measuring about 30 metres (100 feet) wide and six metres (19 feet) deep appeared in Foshan, China, yesterday
The accident was caused by a water leak on the construction site of a subway station in the city of seven million residents
At least eight people were killed after the major eight-lane road suddenly collasped at around 8:40pm local time yesterday
Rescue work is underway for three people missing after the road collapsed above a construction site of Subway Line 2
The accident took place near the No.1 Ring Road Bridge on Jihua Xi Road above the construction site of Foshan's Subway Line 2, according to China Central Television Station.
The report said the collapsed area was as large as two basketball courts with a depth of five to six metres (16 to 19 feet). The report also showed an aerial video of the affected site.
Pictures of the scene showed a huge swathe of mud and broken concrete in the middle of the two-way thoroughfare in the city's Changcheng district.
The sinkhole is the size of two basketball courts and swallowed the two-way thoroughfare in the city's Changcheng district
A huge swathe of mud and broken concrete can be seen on the affected site after the major accident in Guangdong Province
The water leak was first detected at around 7pm, but construction workers failed to stop the water coming through
A huge crack is seen on Jihua Xi Road after a 30-metre-long (100-foot-long) stretch caved in near the No.1 Ring Road Bridge
The sudden leak flooded the underground site and caused a 30-metre-long (100-foot-long) stretch of the road to collapse at around 8:40pm local time, the city government said in a statement today on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent to Twitter.
The statement said an initial leak was detected by the construction workers at around 7pm, but the workers failed to control the situation.
It was unclear whether the dead and missing were all construction workers.
Rescue works is underway for the three missing. The authorities are investigating the details of the accident.
It remains unclear whether or not all of the people killed by the accident were construction workers of Foshan Subway Line 2
The city government said a specialised team had been dispatched to closely monitor the road after it collapsed yesterday
Nine people were rescued from the underground construction site and hospitalised. Their condition is reportedly stable
Industrial accidents are common in China, where safety regulations are often poorly enforced, which has angered citizens.
Official figures show 38,000 people were killed in workplace accidents in 2017.
Last May, 12 workers died following an explosion in a high-speed rail tunnel construction site in the southwest province of Guizhou.
Feb 8, 2018
Juan F Martinez
Road collapses in Rome, Italy swallowing up cars in giant 10 meters deep crater – Buildings evacuated
Road collapses in Rome, Italy swallowing up cars
Feb 15, 2018
Khan
Peru: Huge Hole opens in Junín
Mar 6, 2018
A huge hole more than 20 meters deep continues to grow and puts at risk the inhabitants of the community of San Blas, in the district of Óndores in the province and Junín region.
As we have previously informed you, similar situation was presented in Cusco, where huge cracks are registered in the district of Llusco and the families were relocated.
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Mar 7, 2018
Khan
(FOX 11) - In Sun Valley just what residents feared would happen.. Happened. A large section of a rain-soaked hillside gave way in the La Tuna Canyon area.
With regard to the hillsides along La Tuna Canyon Road near the 210 Freeway the words were chilling. LA Fire Department Spokesman David Ortiz saying, “It’s changing by the minute."
And, minute by minute firefighters, public works personnel and others look up and down the hills and especially a muddy-watery lake that popped up out of nowhere. To Ortiz, “It looks like several tons of dirt in there and its very very deep.”
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Mar 24, 2018
Khan
Ireland: Limerick man left astounded after stumbling across terrifying 25ft sinkhole
Mar 23, 2018
Pat and Tony couldn't believe their eyes when they came across the huge sinkhole.
Two Limerick men were left astounded when they stumbled across a terrifying 25ft sinkhole on the outskirts of Limerick city.
Wildlife photographer Pat Murphy, who is a member of Limerick Birdwatch and Birdwatch Ireland, was taking a walk with pal Tony Ryan on Thursday evening when Tony spotted the sinkhole.
He told The Irish Mirror: "While out walking on Cleeves bank yesterday in Coonagh just on the outskirts of Limerick city we came upon this sinkhole.
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Mar 24, 2018
Khan
Mar 25, 2018
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Mar 28, 2018
Khan
México: It is broken in Puebla bridge on the road San Martín Texmelucan-Tlaxcala
Feb 17, 2018
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Mar 28, 2018
Khan
Missouri: Sinkhole opens up next to track at Nixa Junior High School.
Mar 28, 2018
NIXA, Mo. -- The Nixa School District says it has requested an expert look at a sinkhole that opened up near the track at the junior high school.
The sinkhole is about ten feet long. The school district roped off the area north and outside of the track. School leaders say they will measure the sinkhole to determine the next step.
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Mar 29, 2018
Khan
United Kingdom: A sinkhole has opened up in Barming.
Apr 01, 2018
The void was discovered earlier today and has caused deep cracks in the road and a driveway to crack up. Part of a fence has also subsided into the hole.
It was found at the edge of a field off Broomshaw Road and it is understood authorities have closed off the end of the road and houses lost water for a time.
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Apr 2, 2018
Khan
Vietnam
Apr 01, 2018
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Apr 2, 2018
Khan
Motorists are hereby advised that a short section of R55 Quagga road (northbound) between Second and Third Avenue near Laudium is closed for traffic as its road surface continues to deteriorate due to a sinkhole
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Apr 2, 2018
Starr DiGiacomo
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/road-collapse-near-allatoona-lake-...
Acworth road, boat ramp closed for at least 2 weeks due to large sinkhole
Updated: Apr 2, 2018 - 5:21 PMBARTOW COUNTY, Ga. - If you’re looking to enjoy the spring weather on Tanyard Creek, add some time to your drive.
A collapsed culvert near the Acworth boat ramp means the road will be closed for at least two weeks, Bartow County roads director Joe Sutton said Monday.
The hole, which spans both lanes, was reported about midnight Friday. Sutton says a metal culvert that carries water from one side to the other collapsed and the road went down with it.
The hole is about a half-mile from where Tanyard Creek Road Southeast meets Glade Road Southeast.
“It was just an old culvert that just failed,” Sutton said. "Probably age had a lot to do with it.”
He estimated the culvert was 30 years old.
Replacing the culvert requires a custom pipe to be fashioned, which is why he thinks it’ll take at least two weeks.
Neighbors say the road is a main route to I-75 for hundreds of drivers and the hole is adding a lot of extra time to their commute.
"It’s a main road. It’s really the only way for us to get to 75 without having to go all the way up, and around to get to the interstate," Kayla Harmon said.
She said it has added 25 minutes to her commute, but that's not her only concern.
"It’s just gonna be a big inconvenience. Especially for the people on Glade Road on the other side. Their fire department is on this side. So they’re gonna have to go all the way around now. It’s gonna cause a delay if there’s fire," she said.
Tanyard Creek Boat Ramp, a popular access to Allatoona Lake because of its close location to I-75, is also shut down until the road is repaired.
The county plans to fix the road in three phases. First, crews will have to clear out the mess. Then they will replace the metal pipe. Once that is done, crews can patch up the road, a process officials say will take about two weeks.
Apr 3, 2018
Khan
Czech Republic: The ceiling of the anatomical cover was dropped in Prague.
Mar 03, 2018
Prague - At Černý Most in Prague, the basement of an anti-theatrical cover was dropped on the grounds of the elementary school. No one inside. Fire fighters secured instead of tape. A local office building officer arrived at the site to assess the state of the subsoil and set the next step. Martin Kavka, spokesman for Prague firefighters, said.
A man who ran a dog this morning reported the collapse of the enclosure on the Bratří Venclíků street. The ceiling on an area of 4 × 5 meters fell to a depth of about three meters.
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Apr 3, 2018
Khan
Republic of Korea
Apr 04, 2018
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Apr 5, 2018
Khan
Georgia: Driver Plunges Into Sinkhole After Ignoring Barriers.
Apr 04, 2018
Truck Crashes Into Massive Sinkhole In Bartow County
The driver of a pickup truck suffered minor injuries after crashing into the massive sinkhole that's closed a segment of Tanyard Creek Road in southern Bartow County.
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Apr 5, 2018
Khan
South Africa
Sinkhole threatens to swallow house.
5 Apr 2018
The Ngoako family are living with the danger of a sinkhole in their yard in Ngobi, North West. The sinkhole was discovered by five-year-old Otlotleng two weeks ago.
A gaping sinkhole growing wider and deeper by the day in the backyard of pensioner Dorah Ngoako is threatening the safety of her family.
The void started as a crack following heavy rains more than a week ago in Ngobi village in North West.
The sinkhole is about two metres from Ngoako’s house and her family is struggling to sleep at night as it becomes evident the ground on which their house was built is unstable.
“It started really small, more like a crack on the ground, but as time went by it was clear that the ground was caving in.
“By the third day the hole was so big we had to cover it with corrugated iron sheets as a precaution,” she said
The 68-year-old lives with her husband, Melato, 71, 36year-old daughter and their three grandchildren aged between five and 13.
They have lived in the yard for over two decades but had never seen or heard of anything like this in the village.
“It is worrying because we do not know which part of the yard will cave in next … It means the ground on which we built our house is unstable and will bury us alive.”
Ward councillor Lucky Letlhabe said he reported the sinkhole to the Moretele local municipality. “The technical team is looking into the matter for an urgent solution. The team will visit the family to further assess the situation and see what can be done to alleviate the family’s plight,” he said.
Letlhabe said the rains caused damage in the village but this was the only reported incident of a sinkhole.
The Gauteng government announced that it will cost taxpayers up to R50-million to repair a huge moving sinkhole in Laudium, Tshwane, which has resulted in the closure of parts of the R55 road and left two houses severely damaged.
According to the provincial government, 25% of Gauteng’s land is dolomitic. Tshwane municipality spokesman Lindela Mashigo said the council was attending to 44 recorded sinkholes, varying in sizes.
“Sinkholes are mainly caused by leaking wet services such as water, sewer or stormwater and surface water ponding. A higher occurrence of sinkholes occur in periods of heavy rainfall.”
Geotechnical engineering professor at the University of Pretoria, Eden Rust, said rain water was slightly acidic which chewed away dolomitic rock. “This may cause a cavity in the dolomite, which is covered by soil and if that soil wets up more than it can handle, that is when you get a sinkhole.”
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Apr 5, 2018
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Canada: Moment woman's car plunges into sinkhole in Vancouver Island.
Apr 05, 2018
A mid-island woman who was almost buried alive when her car plunged into a 20-metre-deep sinkhole.
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Apr 6, 2018
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Jamaica; Van falls into Spanish Town Road sinkhole.
Apr 05, 2018
KINGSTON, Jamaica — This van reportedly fell into what is believed to be a sinkhole created when a section of the roadway caved in along Spanish Town Road on Kingston yesterday..
Efforts to get further information on the incident from the authorities have proven futile.
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Apr 6, 2018
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Russia: Enormous sinkhole swallows an SUV whole after appearing in the middle of a Russian car park.
Apr 10, 2018
This is the unbelievable moment a Russian SUV owner got the shock of their lives after returning to where they parked their car only to find it had been swallowed by a sinkhole.
The incident occurred in the city of Rostov-on-Don close to the border with Ukraine and was caught on camera by flabbergasted onlookers eager to get a closer look.
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Apr 11, 2018
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5601527/Massive-sinkhole-op...
Massive sinkhole opens up a SECOND time and swallows a car as the dangerous pit continues to wreak havoc on a busy road
Daily Mail Australia
Published: 22:16 EDT, 10 April 2018 | Updated: 05:22 EDT, 11 April 2018
A large sink hole has caused havoc for commuters on a busy road after it opened up for the second time.
Images of the sinkhole, caused by a burst water main, shows a white car stuck in the large crack.
The concrete around the car is darker than the rest of the street after council workers refilled the hole when the water main burst last week.
A sinkhole that opened up on a Cairns street has swallowed a car and has appeared to damage the bumper of the vehicle
The front two wheels of the vehicle appear to be caught in the sinkhole on Sheridan Street while the rear two are safe on solid ground
The bumper of the car appears to be coming off of the vehicle.
It was towed from the site and the Queensland Ambulance Service was called to the scene, according to ABC.
They said the patient was not seriously injured and declined to be taken to hospital.
A Cairns Regional Council spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia: 'A water main burst occurred at this location in the early hours of Saturday morning.
'The area around the water main was excavated, the main was isolated to prevent any further water from leaking, and the hole backfilled and compacted
'A temporary road seal was then placed over the excavated area. It appears that the compaction was not completely effective and a new void opened up under the road seal.
'The area was fully excavated again yesterday evening, refilled and compacted. A new road seal is being applied this morning and the road should be ready for use by this afternoon.
'Council is assisting the driver of the vehicle that was damaged in the road collapse.'
The sinkhole formed in the northbound lane.
Queensland Traffic has advised to make extra time for travel around the Sheridan Street and Rutherford Street intersection.
Apr 12, 2018
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Brazil: Large sinkhole in Miranda do Norte and Arari.
Apr 10, 2018
A stretch of the BR-135 between Dom Pedro and President Dutra broke out on Tuesday morning after heavy rains fell in the region.
The information was confirmed by the Federal Highway Police and the National Department of Transportation Infrastructure (DNIT).
In addition to this highway, last Tuesday (03), the volume of waters in the streams and lakes near the town of Bubasa, located between Miranda do Norte and Arari, increased considerably and began to worry those who travel on that section of highway BR 222. A strength of the waters began to erode in the stretch that collapsed a few years ago. If the volume of rain remains, the asphalt is at risk of collapsing.
The same stretch broke in February 2017. With heavy rain, part of the BR-222 caved and a large crater formed along the highway.
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Apr 12, 2018
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England: Huge sinkhole appears in Devon garden.
Apr 12, 2018
A culvert which collapsed under several private gardens at a town in North Devon is in the process of being replaced, a council has said.
The work, which will involve excavating and replacing over 75 metres of damaged and collapsed concrete culvert, is expected to take up to 15 weeks to complete.
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Apr 13, 2018
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.wapt.com/article/sewer-collapse/19814758
Hole opens up in road from sewer collapse
Jackson, MS
Updated: 10:50 PM CDT Apr 13, 2018
A cave in shuts down part of a major Northeast Jackson street. The road gave way after a sewer line collapsed.
WEBVTT WHEN SOMEONE DRIVING DOWN THE STREET HIT IT. >> A VEHICLE WAS TRAVELING SOUTHBOUND. IT APPEARED TO BE A POTHOLE HERE IT AFTER THE GROUND GAVE AWAY. ROSS: A CLOSE CALL FOR A WOMAN WHO DROVE OVER A HUGE HOLE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD AFTER A SEWER COLLAPSED UNDER A STREET IN NORTHEAST JACKSON. I GUESS IT HAD TO BE FRIGHTENING FOR HER TO DRIVE OVER THAT YOU TOLD? >> IT WASN’T A HUGE HOLE YET BUT AFTER SHE PASSED THROUGH IT THAT’S WHEN WE REALIZED IT WAS A HUGE HOLE. ROSS: THE CRATER IS FOUR FEET WIDE AND 4 FEET DEEP. IT’S ON SOUTHBOUND RIDGEWOOD ROAD AND NORTHSIDE DRIVE. >> WE ASSURED THE CITIZEN WAS SAFE AND THERE WERE NO ISSUES INTO WASN’T INJURED. ROSS: CITY LEADERS SAY IT WILL TAKE 7 TO 10 DAYS TO REPAIR THE BUSTED SEWER. CREWS WILL HAVE TO WORK AROUND UNDERGROUND UTILITY LINES. >> CORRECT. THERE ARE SOME VERY DELICATE UTILITY LINES IN THAT AREA. AS WE HAVE ARTIE SEEN ONE OF THE GAS LINES IS A PRETTY DELICATE AREA. WE WILL DEFINITELY HAVE TO ENSURE THE INTEGRITY OF THE UTILITIES THAT THEY ARE NO
Apr 14, 2018
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Egypt: A sudden sinkhole on the 20th Street in Damietta.
Apr 14, 2018
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Apr 15, 2018
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Sinkhole On Private Land Causes Concern
Apr 16, 2018
For the second time in as many weeks a North Central Florida property owner is asking for help that county workers say they legally can't give....
This time, a large sinkhole has one rural family looking for a solution.
These are the County's reaction to situations like these happening on private property.
The affected landowner is Carolyn reams who said "The information I got was we can't help you and thats what wasn't acceptable to me."
It started with what Carolyn described as a blooping and thumping sound, before her husband noticed a massive sinkhole in their yard right behind their garage.
Tv20's Landon Harrar reported "Carolyn Reams tells me this was a big sinkhole, roughly 20-30 feet wide and if you look behind me at that light pole, well thats a good judge for how deep it was, about 50 feet."
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Apr 17, 2018
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Italy: Only during this year around 44 erosion pits have been opened in the city of Rome.
Apr 16, 2018
Asphalts of the Italian capital are made of a new pit every two or three days. They normally have the dimensions of a room, a few feet wide and a few feet deep. But in February of this year, these pits sucked six cars in the underground canals after they disappeared 50 meters from the Livio Androniko street, causing some buildings to evacuate.
This is not a new phenomenon. Since 2010, Roma have had 90 such pits per year. In 2013, there were 104. 2018 seems to pass that record. It is clear that the problem is escalating: the roads are starting to look like "Emental" cheese, while every man in Italy is wondering why the earth, as the Jewish prophet Jesse says, "is rolling like a drunken man."
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Apr 17, 2018
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Scotland: Figures from NFU Mutual reveal a 48% increase in the number of pothole claims from 2015 to 2017.
Apr 17, 2018
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Apr 18, 2018
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Mexico: Serves COMAPA sinking in avenue Rodolfo Garza Cantu.
Apr 17, 2018
Reynosa, Tamaulipas.-The sinking in an area of Rodolfo Garza Cantu Avenue, also known as Río Purificación, is served by COMAPA and Municipal Public Works in which they will rehabilitate the 36-inch pipe and leave this important avenue repaired.
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Apr 18, 2018
Starr DiGiacomo
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/live-updates-sinkhole...
Live updates as major Welsh road remains closed after sinkholes appear in carriageway
A sinkhole opened up in the A40 in West Wales forcing the closure of the road
Updated17:24, 19 APR 2018
A major road in West Wales remains closed this morning after a sinkhole appeared in the ground.
The A40 near Llandovery in Carmarthenshire was closed in both directions at around 6pm on Wednesday after the large hole appeared on the eastbound side of the road, between Heol Rhos and the A482 at Llanwrda.
Police have been on the scene and for the safety of road users have closed the road in both directions.
The sinkhole is near Blaenos Nursing Home on the way in to Llandovery.
Diversions are currently in place and traffic is expected to be affected throughout the morning.
This particular stretch of the A40 is major arterial road that connects West Wales with North Wales.
It is not yet known how long the road will be closed.
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Part of road to remain closed over the weekend
A section of the A40 will remain closed over the weekend as contractors will be working at the site to begin emergency repairs.
A spokeswoman from Welsh Government has also explained the cause of the sinkhole.
“A leaking water culvert has washed away material surrounding it, causing the road immediately above the leak to collapse,” she said.
“A section of the A40 near Llangadog/Llandovery will be closed over the weekend, with diversions in place, and the Trunk Road Agent’s Contractors will be on site next week to begin emergency repairs to the culvert and the road surface.”
Apr 19, 2018
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.vevaynewspapers.com/large-sinkhole-causes-total-closure-...
Large sinkhole causes total closure of State Road 156
A major road in and out of Vevay and parts of Switzerland County was closed for nearly 24 hours late last week after a large sinkhole appeared.
A major road in and out of Vevay and parts of Switzerland County was closed for nearly 24 hours late last week after a large sinkhole appeared.
At approximately 10:15 p.m. last Thursday night Switzerland County dispatch began to receive numerous calls reporting a large hole in State Road 156 on the west side of the bridge over Plum Creek. Indiana State Police officer Ned Dayadharum was the first to arrive at the scene, and secured the area for traffic safety. He was soon joined by officers from the Switzerland County Sheriff’s office and members of the Jefferson-Craig Fire Department. Those workers assessed the situation while workers from the Indiana Department of Transportation’s Aurora Subdistrict came to the area.
State Road 156 is the major roadway leading from Vevay to the Markland Dam, and is used by many residents who work on the Kentucky side of the Ohio River; as well as commercial truck traffic coming from and going to the industries in Kentucky. It is also a vital roadway for student and school bus traffic going to Switzerland County Schools.
Chris See of the Jeff-Craig Fire Department said that the hole measured roughly 10-feet by 10-feet, and was about 20-feet deep. Luckily, the hole was not on the bridge itself, but on the edge of the roadway leading to the bridge.
“With all of the flooding that we’ve had in the area, the floodwaters had eroded the dirt and fill away,” See said. “From the amount of dirt that has been taken away, it’s probably been happening (the erosion) since late February or early March. With all of the traffic that the road gets, we’re lucky that it didn’t collapse while someone was driving over it.”
Workers and officials from INDOT arrived at the area late on Thursday night, and after looking over the damage, estimated that they could have the roadway back open to traffic sometime on Friday.
Harry Maginity, Media Relations Director for the Indiana Department of Transportation’s Seymour District, said that maintenance workers from INDOT worked all day on Friday to fix the problem.
“It was about a 13’x9’ hole, and it was just in advance of the bridge itself,” Maginity said. “The bridge is an old arch bridge over Plum Creek. It didn’t really affect the structural integrity of the bridge. Those bridges are usually really, really solid, unless something were to happen to the span walls.”
Maginity said that the damage occurred right up to the facing of the bridge, and was a washout caused by the flooding.
“They used different materials, then topped it with stone after they got it filled up, and then they did asphalt over the top of it to put pavement down for the road,” he said. “They got the road open about 11 p.m. on Friday night.”
Maginity said that the charge of INDOT was to make sure the bridge was safe and to restore traffic to the roadway, and that was accomplished in approximately 24 hours after the issue was reported.
“A lot of times you will have a bridge approach, which is a slab going into the bridge, well this is not the type of bridge that had that type of approach,” Maginity said. “It was pavement right up to it, and then of course it was paved over the bridge. So it was the road that really washed out.”
Maginity saluted the INDOT workers from the Aurora Subdistrict who worked long hours to get the road open again.
The work done on the area stabilized the roadway, and was not merely a temporary patch that will be worked on at a later date.
“You’re asking, one, is it permanent?”, Maginity answered. “Well, I don’t think we see a whole lot of permanence, anyplace. When you’ve got this kind of weather that we’ve had. I think that as far as filling the hole and using the different materials that they put down, I think that was a good fix. As far as, is the pavement on top, is that a permanent fix, or will they come back and mill it? I’m not over there. I’m not looking at it. Our goal was to get the road back open and make sure that the conditions are safe.”
Maginity said that the maintenance director of INDOT said that they anticipate that the fill that was put into the hole will sink as it settles, so workers at INDOT will come back to the area after the fill settles and put more fill in; and will also do scour protection at the bridge.
Bridge scour is the removal of sediment such as sand and gravel from around bridge abutments or piers. Scour, caused by swiftly moving water, can scoop out scour holes, compromising the integrity of a structure.
“The bridge is in good shape, it’s not a problem with the bridge,” Maginity said. “But we will do some scour protection. We anticipate that the fill we put in is going to settle and we’ll have to come back for that. And, of course, at that point, we’ll be needing more asphalt there, so we’ll put more asphalt. This summer, you’ll probably see us back at that bridge.”
Apr 19, 2018
Khan
Hawaii: Massive sinkhole in Kalihiwai.
Apr 20, 2018
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Apr 21, 2018
Starr DiGiacomo
http://herald-citizen.com/stories/parking-lot-collapses,27406
Parking lot collapses
Posted Friday, April 20, 2018
An area of Broad Street will be closed off Friday following an accident where a dump truck fell into a hole after a ground collapse.
"We expect Broad Street to be closed between Washington Avenue and Womack Avenue for an undetermined amount of time to bring in a crane service to remove the truck," the Cookeville Police Department said in a statement on Facebook.
The dump truck belongs to Cumberland Waste Disposal of Cumberland County.
The driver was uninjured, but the identity of the driver was not known Friday morning.
The collapse happened Friday morning across the street from Bobby Q's on East Broad Street in the Liberty Square parking lot.
Initially the collapse appeared to be a sinkhole. But the discovery of metal beams and concrete underground leads most to believe otherwise.
"It’s not a sinkhole, and the cause of this incident is undetermined at this time," Cookeville Mayor Ricky Shelton said in a post on Facebook.
Property Assessor Steve Pierce said the owner of the property is Olympic Investment Group.
Apr 21, 2018
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Indonesia: Large sinkholl in Palembayan Subdistrict .
Apr 20, 2018
The landslide point is located at Jorong Tompek Nagari Salareh Aia, Palembayan Subdistrict 30 meters with a depth of about 20 meters and in Padang Kalam Nagari Sitanang, Ampek Nagari District along 20 meters with a depth of about 25 meters.
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Apr 22, 2018
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Large sinkhole in Cumberland
Apr 21, 2018
A mother and her child look over the hole in a parking lot on Broad Street Friday afternoon where a garbage truck was lifted by crane after the pavement collapsed into what is reportedly not a sinkhole, but some type of underground parking that was paved over many years ago.
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Apr 23, 2018
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8 homes evacuated after 10 possible sinkholes open in Ocala.
Apr 26, 2018
CALA, Fla. - The city of Ocala is trying to determine how to fill several potential sinkholes that formed Wednesday in a subdivision.
Eight Ocala homes were evacuated Wednesday afternoon after 10 possible sinkholes opened near a retention pond in the Wynchase at Fore Ranch neighborhood.
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Apr 27, 2018
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China: Sinkhole in Qingdao.
Apr 13, 2018
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Apr 28, 2018
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At least 10 sinkholes plague Ocala neighborhood.
Apr 30, 2018
May 1, 2018