thats a BIG fucking hole!!

[E_SolSi]

 

[Briansol]

higher res:

 

[Drake]

Id say so

 

[eg6sir]

wtf?? thats massive

 

[UNDR8D]

So what's the story

 

[UNDR8D]

NVM

The Associated Press: Crews probe Guatemala sinkhole as neighbors flee

 

[E_SolSi]

Sinkhole in Guatemala: Giant Could Get Even Bigger

Ker Than

for National Geographic News

Published June 1, 2010

A huge sinkhole in Guatemala City, Guatemala, crashed into being on Sunday, reportedly swallowing a three-story building—and echoing a similar, 2007 sinkhole in Guatemala.

The sinkhole has likely been weeks or even years in the making—floodwaters from tropical storm Agatha caused the sinkhole to finally collapse, scientists say.

The sinkhole appears to be about 60 feet (18 meters) wide and about 30 stories deep, said James Currens, a hydrogeologist at the University of Kentucky.

Sinkholes are natural depressions that can form when water-saturated soil and other particles become too heavy and cause the roofs of existing voids in the soil to collapse.

Another way sinkholes can form is if water enlarges a natural fracture in a limestone bedrock layer. As the crack gets bigger, the topsoil gently slumps, eventually leaving behind a sinkhole.

It's unclear which mechanism is behind the 2010 Guatemala sinkhole, but in either case the final collapse can be sudden, Currens said.

2010 Guatemala Sinkhole Could Grow

A ruptured sewer line is thought to have caused the sinkhole that appeared in Guatemala City in 2007.

The 2010 Guatemala sinkhole could have formed in a similar fashion, Currens said. A burst sanitary or storm sewer may have been slowly saturating the surrounding soil for a long time before tropical storm Agatha added to the inundation.

"The tropical storm came along and would have dumped even more water in there, and that could have been the final trigger that precipitated the collapse," Currens said.

Depending on the makeup of the subsurface layer, the Guatemala sinkhole "could eventually enlarge and take in more buildings," he said.

Typically, officials fill in sinkholes with large rocks and other debris. But the 2010 Guatemala sinkhole "is so huge that it's going to take a lot of fill material to fill it," Currens said.

"I don't know what they're going to do."

 

[Hondadude141]

remember the movie 2012? and The sink holes in the beginning?

It's happening

 

[|Chaz|]

I could fill that hole...

 

[kelsodeez]

that sink hole is cool, but not my favorite.
the gateway to hell
English Russia Darvaz: The Door to Hell

 

[double0Si]

Holy shit. I was having trouble waking up this morning and that pic just did the trick. 30 Fn stories deep?!

 

[Briansol]

someone needs to chop this into a nom nom nom pic lol

 

[E_SolSi]

 

[eg6sir]

bahaha

 

[Drake]

LMAO that is good stuff.

 

[reckedracing]

the power of water

 

[damien360kl]

i wonder how the people felt when the were falling 30 stories lol

 

[K2e2vin]

"Oh shit"?

 

[invisibledemon]

whats really really odd to me, is that its a perfect fucking circle.
how? lol. maybe it was an old sacrificial bottomless pit to throw virgins into over 5000 years ago, and it just uncovered itself. ready for more virgins.

 

[klyph]

someone needs to chop this into a nom nom nom pic lol

Well don't ask Jeffie to do it...