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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Comment by Kris H on August 11, 2012 at 11:30pm
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Video of sinkhole in North Carolina, US.
http://once.unicornmedia.com/now/od/auto/3aaae01e-e0f4-439d-aa7a-8d...
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Comment by Sevan Makaracı on August 10, 2012 at 5:28pm
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Sinkhole closes part of Main Street in Burlington
This sinkhole has closed Main Street at the interesection with South Willard Street in Burlington Friday morning.
Workers are trying to fill a sinkhole on Main Street at the interesection with South Willard Street in Burlington Friday.
The westbound lane of traffic is open, but the eastbound lane is closed. Police advise drivers to seek alternate routes.
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Comment by Howard on August 9, 2012 at 5:03am
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Manitoba Highway Remains Closed Indefinitely Following Massive Sinkhole - (July 4)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2012/08/07/mb-highway-...
People look on July 4 at a giant sinkhole that had just formed on Highway 83 in western Manitoba. It's not known when the affected stretch of highway will reopen to traffic.
Some people who rely on a western Manitoba highway say they fear it could be a long time before provincial crews fix a massive sinkhole that has closed a section of the road.
A landslide last month caused part of Highway 83 to collapse between Russell and Roblin, Man., creating a sinkhole roughly 200 metres wide.
The section of road has since been closed to the public, and a detour is in place for motorists.
Bill Gade, who owns the 83 North trucking company in Swan River, Man., says provincial highways officials have told him the road likely won't be fixed for another year or two.
"If this was the Number One highway, we'd have crews out there on it now. It isn't, and the reality is the province just doesn't care," he told CBC News.
"If they get it done in a year or two — I would think around about the time of the election — we'll see some movement."
Gade said the province appears to be looking instead at upgrading the detour, which he described as being in terrible condition and adding up to $250 in costs to some of his trucking routes.
Optimism among people living in the area that the highway would be repaired soon has vanished, he added.
"The province hired security to keep people from looking at the hole," he said.
"When that happened, I think that's when people started to realize [that] the priority here wasn't fixing. The priority was damage control."
A provincial government spokesman told CBC News that crews are working as quickly as possible to stabilize the area.
There has been no ground movement around the sinkhole in the past two weeks, and crews are re-establishing surface drainage in an effort to prevent more landslides, the spokesman said.
Crews are also trying to better assess the stability in the area around the road.
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One-Acre Sinkhole Forms in Louisiana, Bending a 36-Inch Gas Line, Forcing Evacuations and a 4-Mile Closure of Highway (Aug 5) -
http://theadvocate.com/home/3539214-125/sinkhole-forces-bend-gas-pi...
Assumption Parish officials said powerful underground forces unleashed by the formation of an acre-sized swampland sinkhole had bent and shifted an adjacent 36-inch natural gas pipeline, posing an explosion risk to nearby motorists.
As a result, the officials said, they shut down vehicular traffic about 7:30 p.m. Saturday over a four-mile stretch of La. 70 South in Pierre Part and Bayou Corne while the pipeline operator, Crosstex Energy L.P., of Dallas, worked to depressurize the line.
John Boudreaux, director of the parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, said the pipeline was not leaking but presented an explosion risk if it would rupture.
Assumption Parish Sheriff Mike Waguespack noted that two 20-inch natural gas pipelines owned by Acadian Gas run parallel to the Crosstex line and also were at risk from Crosstex’s line.
“If one of them goes, probably all three of them go,” Waguespack said.
He said the Crosstex pipeline has an operating pressure of 800 pounds per square inch.
An evacuation order remained in place Saturday but area residents were not being forced to leave their homes, Waguespack said.
Officials handling the emergency estimated about 350 people occupy about 150 residences in the Bayou Corne community.
Fears that the sinkhole area could expand, shear off nearby wellheads and release flammable materials prompted Friday’s evacuation order by parish officials.
But Assumption Parish President Martin “Marty” Triche said the slurry area had not grown in size as of Saturday evening.
Boudreaux said the decision to close La. 70 — a major east-west corridor — was required because the pipeline crosses under the highway just east of Bayou Corne.
Boudreaux said the compromised section of pipeline stretches about 400 feet in length about a half-mile south of La. 70. The pipeline has bent 16 feet downward and 15 feet to the east toward the sinkhole.
Crosstex spokeswoman Jill McMillan said in an email that company personnel have responded and “their highest priority is to ensure the safety of all involved.”
“As a precautionary measure, Crosstex has isolated and shut down the pipeline,” McMillan wrote. “We’re currently depressurizing the pipeline, and we expect this to be complete by Sunday evening.”
Waguespack said the road closure would extend from La. 69 and La. 70 southwest to Derrick Street in Pierre Part. He said Derrick is the closest point to the pipeline crossing where 18-wheelers can turn around and find a suitable departure route.
He said that while residents have been advised of the risk of remaining, they would be able to continue to access their homes off La. 70 but would not be able to drive into the area where the pipeline crosses under La. 70.
News of the endangered pipeline emerged Saturday afternoon after officials and curious residents had taken airboats down the Crosstex pipeline corridor to get a closer look at the slurry area and take air and soil samples.
The big sinkhole swallowed and toppled trees overnight Thursday, turning the formerly forested patch of swamp into a watery mud flat flecked with bits of green foliage and tree tops peeking out of the dark-brown muck.
Louisiana Department of Natural Resources officials believe a potentially failed salt cavern well owned by Texas Brine Co. LLC, of Houston, could be the cause of the sinkhole, as well as natural gas releases bubbling in Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou for more than two months.
Joe S. Ball Jr., director of DNR’s Injection and Mining Division, said some scientists are suggesting that a large gas bubble belched upward from underground and reached the surface, liquefying the overlying soil and creating the slurry.
Ball said Louisiana Geological Survey officials have called a meeting for 9 a.m. Monday at LSU where geologists and scientists would be able see all the data at one time.
Parish officials also are planning to hold a community meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church Hall on La. 70 in Pierre Part, a parish government news release says.
Gov. Bobby Jindal declared a statewide emergency Friday and the state Office of Conservation issued its own emergency order Friday directing Texas Brine to evaluate the structural integrity of its salt cavern and to begin remediation efforts in 24 hours.
Sonny Cranch, spokesman for Texas Brine, said the company is committed to working with state and parish authorities to find out what caused the eruption and perform any remediation deemed appropriate.
Cranch said company employees were working on a plan Saturday. He declined to provide details before DNR looked at the document.
While DNR officials have pointed to the cavern as a possible, though not confirmed, cause, Cranch said Texas Brine does not know if the salt cavern is related one way or the other.
“We’re saying, ‘We’re not sure, but we want to find out,’ ” he said.
Cranch said none of Texas Brine’s three brine caverns are used for hydrocarbon storage. DNR officials have speculated that naturally occurring gas could have filled the cavern in question after it was plugged.
The slurry area is on Texas Brine’s 40-acre facility on the south side of La. 70. The sinkhole could be seen Saturday through a patch of cypress trees from the pad of the salt cavern well drawing DNR officials’ attention.
The cavern under that pad, which has a capacity of 20 million barrels, each holding 42 gallons of brine, has been plugged since 2011. It has been out of service for brine production for three years but is filled with brine for structural integrity, Cranch said.
The cavern’s solid salt deposits were dissolved with injected water from the western flank of the Napoleonville Dome and extend from about 3,400 feet deep to 5,650 feet deep.
Texas Brine and other brine producers in the area use the salty mix to supply industry. Texas Brine has been operating in the area since 1973 and began using the well in 1982, DNR officials said.
Cranch said the cavern, which is in roughly the shape of a narrow vase, is overlain by a salt cap 1,000 feet thick. More than 2,400 feet of dirt and rock lie atop the cap. The cavern well extends through this upper layer from the surface to the cavern’s top.He said the cavern has a diameter of 150 feet at the top and 310 feet at the bottom.
While Cranch said he could not say if the cavern had collapsed — as some residents fear — DNR’s Ball suggested it was not likely, given the amount of earth and salt over the top.
Nancy Malone, American Red Cross spokeswoman, said a shelter at Belle Rose Middle School remained open but no one had used it by Saturday afternoon. She said residents were staying mostly with friends and relatives.
While some residents remained in Bayou Corne and could be seen cutting grass Saturday, many others have left.
Abbie and Jason Hue and their daughter departed after a community meeting Friday when the evacuation order was given, Abbie Hue said.
Abbie Hue, 31, said her family was staying with relatives in Belle Rose, at least until school starts late next week. She said her husband has been checking on their residence.
“He just kind of goes back and forth to check it out,” Abbie Hue said. “I mean it’s our home, you know.”
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Comment by KM on August 3, 2012 at 11:57pm
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This report of a sink hole was on main stream news feeds on CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c2#/video/international/2012/08/03...
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Comment by Andrey Eroshin on August 2, 2012 at 7:30pm
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Man dies after falling in sinkhole
Cameras in Taipei caught remarkable footage of the moment a deadly sinkhole opened and swallowed a man.
The man was walking on a sidewalk outside the Temple of Sansha when the ground suddenly collapsed beneath him, according to CNN. Rescuers tried, but were not able to reach the man in time to save his life. His body was recovered hours later.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/02/video-catches-taipei-man-bein...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/raw-video-taiwan-m...
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Huge Sinkhole Opens Up In Brooklyn, New York (Aug 1) -
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/08/01/huge-sinkhole-opens-up-in-ba...
The 20-foot-deep by 20-foot-wide hole, which formed at around 6 p.m., is located between 4th and 5th avenues in Bay Ridge.
The cause of the sinkhole is still unknown and no injuries have been reported.
Emergency crews are on the scene where nearby parked cars may be at risk of going underground.
The Department of Transportation said a large chunk of a street in Bay Ridge collapsed at about 6 p.m. Wednesday, creating a nearly 15-foot by 20-foot hole near 79th Street and Fifth Avenue.
Crews are moving cars from near the hole and assessing whether Con Ed will need to shut down power in the area.
This is the second time this summer a sinkhole has opened up in Bay Ridge.
On June 28, eleven families were evacuated from their homes in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn Thursday evening when a 60-foot sinkhole opened up in front of their buildings, officials said.
They have since been allowed to return to their homes on the 200 block of 92nd Street.
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27.07.12. Crumbling: An aerial view shows the 200-foot hole
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2180067/Roy-Rosalee-Balling...
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Cabin Swallowed by Sinkhole in NWT Canada (July 24) -
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2012/07/24/north-cabin-si...
A Fort Resolution, N.W.T., man said an entire cabin vanished into a massive sinkhole near the community.
Robert Ekinla was driving his ATV when came upon the hole. He had been heading to the cabin, which is used as a survival cabin and is located at a popular picnic spot along the Slave River.
"I got to the last bend and holy moly — there is no cabin. I didn't see the hole yet. All of a sudden, I just seen the top of the roof — big giant hole about about 80 feet by 90 feet," he said.
Along with the cabin, picnic tables, a fence, fire pit, outhouse and some nearby trees sank in as well.
This isn't the first time a cabin has appeared somewhere unusual in the N.W.T. Last week, a cabin was seen floating down the Peel River near Fort McPherson, N.W.T. (that was dislodged from its foundation by high water from heavy rains.)
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Gigantic Panama Sinkhole Swallows Garbage Truck (July 18) -
Notable quote: "it looks like sinkholes are going on everywhere! This time in Panama!"
The incident occurred in the parking lot of the Metro pharmacy, located in the neighborhood of Condado del Rey in Panama City.
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