Sinkhole Incidents On the Rise

[Howard]

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

 

 

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ZetaTalk

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

 

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ZetaTalk

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

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

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

ZetaTalk Chat Q&A for April 13, 2013

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

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[Mark]

Giant sinkhole swallows whole the garden of pensioner, 93, as building work opens up 100ft hole

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3301915/Giant-sinkhole-swal...

A 93-year-old woman miraculously survived after a 100ft mineshaft opened up in front of her - and swallowed half her garden.
Stunned Kathleen Angel watched on in horror as she came within inches of falling down the giant sinkhole as it 'devoured' her garden. Her hydrangeas were left intact, though.
The huge death trap appeared after builders allegedly burst a water pipe during work to construct two new homes nearby.
Kathleen, a widow, said: 'It was a great shock. I heard something and looked up and there it was - a very deep, big hole in the middle of my garden. It is very concerning, very much so.'
The incident occurred on Polwithen Drive in Carbis Bay, near St Ives, Cornwall, behind a large building site.
Several homes were also reportedly flooded during the incident and other residents had their water supply cut off while repairs were carried out.
Next-door neighbour Jim Ashford, 92, said: 'Kathleen has not been coping well, when she heard about it I thought it was going to finish her off.
'She lives on her own, I know her son in law comes to visit her, but she is a very reclusive person.'
His son Nick added: 'The building work is a living nightmare - it's been going on for two months and we were given no warning beforehand about what would happen.
'The effects of it all are terrible, and it all culminated on Saturday, just as the rugby was on, when suddenly a 100ft hole appeared in the garden next door.

[Mark]

There’s a hole lot of trouble in Runcton Holme

http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/news/local/there-s-a-hole-lot-of-trouble-...

An elderly couple have been left trapped in their own home after the appearance of a massive sinkhole in their driveway.

Tony Shillito and his ill wife Marjorie, from Runcton Holme, Norfolk have both been unable to make urgent medical appointments since the hole appeared yesterday.

Despite visits from Anglian Water and West Norfolk council officials, Mr Shillito has been told that the hole, which is the size of a single bed and about six foot deep, is the responsibility of his insurance company.

Mr Shillito, 75, said: “I’ve been in touch with my insurance company Allianz and they’ve told me that they can’t doing anything about the hole until next week once loss adjusters have been out.

“It’s smack in the middle of my drive and my wife, who has a heart condition and who has also had two hip replacements, has already been unable to make one urgent medical appointment.

“It doesn’t worry me when the hole is fixed, all I want is a metal plate put over the hole just so I can at least get out of my driveway.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://www.dailyfreeman.com/article/DF/20151029/NEWS/151029646

Newburgh street on verge of sinkhole collapse

POSTED: 10/29/15, 6:30 AM EDT 

NEWBURGH, N.Y. >> A section of Water Street, also known as Marine Drive, is at the risk of imminent collapse and poses a threat to ,  said Wednesday.

The city engineering department, in consultation with the state Department of Transportation, has closed the street between its intersections with Colden/Fourth Street and Washington Street.

City  Michael Ciaravino said a sinkhole 11 feet beneath the street measures about six feet wide by 15 to 17 feet long.

“The sewers in that area are made of brick; they are from the . From what we’ve seen in the camera work, it appears to have been collapsing for quite a long time,” Ciaravino said. “There is a of infrastructure that has completely deteriorated in that area so with each storm that has happened for however long this has been happening, there has been a continuing scouring out of the dirt that supports the sewers in that area.”

Once the full extent of the damage has been determined, Ciaravino said, he would hope city crews would be able to perform most of the work in-house. He is shooting for the project to be completed in as few as seven days.

Detour signs will divert  to Washington and Colden Street. Local traffic to the pizza shop will be available.

[Mark]

Two homes evacuated after 27-foot deep sinkhole opens up in Seffner

http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-news/four-homes-evacuated-a...

SEFFNER, Florida - A sinkhole in Seffner has caused the evacuation of two homes. 

The sinkhole is reportedly 27 feet deep and 22 feet wide, roughly 1.5 miles from the sinkhole that swallowed a Seffner man in 2013 .

The original call came from 11918 Clay Pitt Road.

Emergency crews have cleared the scene, and Code Enforcement has taken over.

Code Enforcement said they did not find any evidence the depression will expand, nor did they find any depressions near it.

Authorities said they do not believe the depression is any threat to anyone else; they will develop a plan to monitor the depression.

According to officials, the depression is on private property and will be the responsibility of the homeowners to contact their insurance company to fill it.

[Mark]

Sinkhole opens, threatens homes in Spring Township

Broken main prompts boil water advisory for 2,400 customers

http://www.wfmz.com/news/news-regional-berks/sinkhole-opens-threate...

SPRING TWP., Pa. - One house is in danger of being swallowed by a massive sinkhole after the ground opened up in a quiet neighborhood. Neighbors in 16 homes were allowed to return Thursday after being evacuated from the 2200 block of Burkey Drive in Spring Township, Berks County. Rufen Chow and her husband were watching TV Wednesday night when they heard the floor cracking and noticed the front door was starting to pull away.

"I keep everything in the house and now I don't know if I can get them back. I wish I could," said Chow, who raised her four sons inside her beloved home. Chow raced outside with only the clothes on her back Wednesday night after the sinkhole stretched into her front yard and nearly swallowed the place she's called home for the past 41 years. "My husband tried to open the front door and he couldn't open it,"

Chow said. Terry Maenza, a spokesperson for Pennsylvania American Water, said the company started receiving complaints of low or no water pressure about 8 p.m. Neighbors realized there was a problem, and then they saw the street opening up. "The lamp post out front went down a couple inches and you could see a crack in the house," said Meg Gallagher, who lives across the street from where the cave-in happened. "Then you just saw more of the street going down."

[Mark]

Sinkhole shuts down I-4 offramp to Maitland Boulevard

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-sinkhole-i4-ma...

A 15-foot-wide sinkhole shut down an offramp from eastbound Interstate 4 to eastbound Maitland Boulevard for hours Monday, according to Orange County Fire Rescue.

The hole, about 4 feet deep, opened around 4 p.m.

The Florida Department of Transportation, which dubbed the situation a "pavement failure, said it was unclear whether the ramp would be open by morning.

Motorists can use the eastbound I-4 exit ramp (90B) to westbound State Road 414 (Maitland Boulevard). This ramp has access to eastbound or westbound S.R. 414.

Traffic cameras appeared to show a car stuck in the hole. The car was towed away, and crews worked to fix the hole.

Orange County Fire Rescue received several calls at the time, saying the hole was "rapidly expanding," spokeswoman Kat Kennedy said.
The hole opened near an I-4 Ultimate construction site, according to FDOT. Crews were doing "horizontal drilling" under the ramp at the time, FDOT said.

The exact cause is unknown.

The area is known for sinkholes. Back in 2009, the state spent $9 million when it pumped 7 million gallons of grout into a sinkhole next to the interchange.

When I-4 was originally constructed, the builders went around it, but that was no longer an option when the interchange was expanded. It's not clear whether the original sinkhole has anything to do with the one that opened Monday.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2015/oct/27/sinkhole-flori...

[Mark]

Sinkhole in Benguet spurs fears 500 more houses may collapse

http://www.mb.com.ph/sinkhole-in-benguet-spurs-fears-500-more-house...

Around 500 houses may be under threat of collapse in Barangay Virac, Itogon, Benguet, following Thursday’s sinkhole that swallowed up five houses and a section of Batuang Road in the old mining area of Benguet Mining Corporation (BMC).

A stroke of luck allowed families living in the area of Sitio Kamangga-an to survive, but dozens of families had to be evacuated immediately.

Itogon Mayor Victorio Palangdan blamed the sinkhole on the old diversion tunnel allegedly built and operated by the BMC.

Yesterday, Barangay Chairman Noel Bilibli appealed for assistance from BMC as 70 displaced residents remained at the Virac Elementary School, where they were temporarily evacuated.

Bilibli said dozens of families will have to be permanently relocated from Sitio Kamangga-an as they feared the threat of more sinkholes during heavy rains which may cause the collapse of the mining tunnels.

The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) is already investigating the occurrence.

[Ovidiu Pricopi]

this is stretching, crack on Earth!  This giant crack in the earth appeared in the last two weeks on a ranch we hunt in the Bighorn Mountains. Everyone here is calling it “the gash”. It’s a really incredible sight. https://www.facebook.com/huntwyo/photos/a.612717865413352.107374183...

[M. Difato]

Sinkhole swallows car amid Sicily downpour

Published: 22 Oct 2015 http://www.thelocal.it/20151022/sinkhole-swallows-car-in-catania-am...

A parked car was swallowed up by a sinkhole that suddenly opened up on a road in Sicily after heavy rain on Wednesday evening.

The car plunged five metres through the eight-metre wide hole on a road in Valverde, in the province of Catania.

The female driver made a miraculous escape having just parked the vehicle before the hole opened up, Corriere reported.

It was then hauled out by firefighters with a crane. The scene was captured on the video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtuvECkkPcs

Heavy rain has swept across Sicily over the past couple of days, with the Catania area faring the worst.

The downpours are expected to continue on Thursday, while torrential rain is also forecast in the Puglia and Calabria regions of southern Italy.

The sinkhole is just the latest embarrassment for the island’s public works authorities. In early January a €13 million viaduct, which lies on a stretch of highway between Palermo and Agrigento, collapsed within days of opening.

Sinkholes are also a common problem elsewhere in the country, especially when torrential rain hits. In February over 300 people had to be evacuated from their homes on a street in Naples after heavy rain and a burst water pipe caused the road to cave in.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/teen-nearly-drowns-when-sidewal...

3:15 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19, 2015

Teen nearly drowns when sidewalk collapses, woman says

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. —

A woman said her special-needs son nearly drowned Monday morning when the ground opened up beneath the sidewalk as he walked to his Orange County school bus.

Lecear Garcia said her 17-year-old son, who is nearly 6 feet tall, went underwater when he fell into the hole.

"My son just dropped. He fell in a hole and went all the way completely down," Garcia said.

She said that when she pulled her son from the water, he was soaked.

"I know he swallowed water because he was underneath," she said.

Garcia said there was no indication that there was a problem with the ground, as she walked with her son to the bus.

The management at the complex where Garcia lives sent an email warning residents of a water main break just after midnight Monday, Garcia said. But she said there were no warnings of possible hazards on the grounds of the complex.

"No sign, no warning, no nothing to let us know, us tenants, that there was a sinkhole right there," she said.

After the incident with Garcia's son, complex managers sent an email warning residents of the hole.

"I almost lost my son," Garcia said. "I thank God he is alive. That's the most important thing. It could have been anybody's child. It could have been anybody this morning."