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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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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[Andrey Eroshin]

07.09.14. A series of sinkholes in Jiangxia, Wuhan, Hubei, China

http://www.kaixian.tv/gd/2014/0907/9136276.html

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&a...

[Mark]

Romulus man falls into sinkhole and nearly drowns

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/26467033/romulus-man-falls-into-s...

A Romulus couple got the scare of their lives Saturday while investigating rising water around their home. The homeowner says he fell into a sinkhole and nearly drowned.

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.

[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.

[Howard]

Mysterious Crater in Utah Irrigation Pond (Aug 29)

Farmers in southern Utah are scratching their heads and trying to figure out what caused an unusual phenomenon in an irrigation pond.

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...

[Derrick Johnson]

Giant Sinkhole Consumes Indiana Couple's Backyard

Aug 25, 2014, 7:39 AM ET

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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[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...

 

[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.”

[Mark]

Heavy rains blamed for large north Jackson sinkhole - August 18

http://www.wbbjtv.com/news/local/Heavy-rains-blamed-for-large-north...

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.

[lonne rey]

Truck swallowed by 40-square-meter sinkhole in Guangxi

http://shanghaiist.com/2014/08/15/look_behemoth_guangxi_sinkhole_sw...

[Mark]

Big sinkhole develops on US 61 in Natchez

http://www.wapt.com/news/central-mississippi/big-sinkhole-develops-...!bErT5Z

NATCHEZ, Miss. —State highway workers have blocked off a big sinkhole that developed this week on U.S. 61 near Natchez Regional Medical Center.

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.