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The Xiaozhai Tiankeng has been well known to local people since ancient times. Xiaozhai is the name of an abandoned village nearby and literally means "little village", and "Tiankeng" means Heavenly Pit, a unique regional name for sinkholes in China. A 2,800-step staircase has been constructed in order to facilitate tourism. [2]
Its depth and width must measure at least 100m for it to qualify as a sinkhole. Some, like the one found in Guangxi in 2022, are much bigger, stretching 300m into the earth and 150m wide ...
The sinkhole was formed in karst terrain, which means rock below the surface can easily be dissolved by groundwater circulating through the bedrock. [5] The large hole measures over 1,000 feet in length, almost 500 feet wide and 630 feet deep, with a volume of over 176 million cubic feet. [ 6 ]
A sinkhole estimated to be the size of a large swimming pool swallowed a truck and its driver as it opened up in the middle of a busy intersection in Japan, according to multiple reports citing ...
A remarkable topographic feature found in Xuan'en County is a 290-meter deep karst sinkhole, located near the village of Luoquanyan (锣圈岩 村). According to news reports, the sinkhole, which occupies around 100 mu (6 hectares), has its own unique ecosystem.
Six people died after a sinkhole swallowed a bus in China. The incident occurred in Xining City in the northwestern part of the country. The collapse of the road was captured on closed-circuit ...
It’s 50 years since the first hotel opened in Cancun. Back in the early 1970s, this was an empty, beautiful stretch of coastline, save for a small fishing village.
The exact location of the Dragon Hole is N16°31.55’. E111°46.1’. Geographically the hole is found in the eastern Atoll near the Paracel Islands, in the South China Sea. [6] According to the Xinhua News agency, upon discovery by local fishermen, the first research methods included using a Video Ray Pro 4 underwater robot.