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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 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]
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 ]
Videos of the Guangxi sinkholes have gone viral on social media. What is a fun and daring feat for young people is a source of much-needed revenue in a province that was only recently lifted out ...
Pollard was looking for her cat Pepper on Monday night when she fell into a 30-feet-deep sinkhole near an old coal mine in Marguerite, Pennsylvania State Police said. Her family called police to ...
One small U.S. town is known for having more sinkholes than it does people: In Fountain, Minnesota, there are only about 400 residents and 10,000 sinkholes, KARE reported. Sinkhole accidents in US ...
The police department posted photos of the sinkhole on its Facebook page. This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Whitefish Bay police warn of sinkhole at Big Bay Park ...
The days-long search for a Pennsylvania grandmother, who fell through a sinkhole while searching for her cat, ended in tragedy when rescuers found the woman's body, authorities said Friday. The ...
Pollard's 5-year-old granddaughter found safe in car near sinkhole Police found Pollard's vehicle behind the Union Restaurant in Unity Township around 3 a.m. with her 5-year-old granddaughter safe ...