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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 ]
People feared demons and ghosts hiding in the mists which swirled up from the depths. ... 100m for it to qualify as a sinkhole. Some, like the one found in Guangxi in 2022, are much bigger ...
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 ...
Whitefish Bay police are cautioning residents to avoid the entrance to Big Bay Park/Buckley Park, 5000 N. Lake Dr., due to a significant sinkhole.
The Chicago metropolitan area has an ethnic Chinese population. While historically small in comparison to populations on the coasts, the community is rapidly expanding. As of 2023, there are 78,547 Chinese Americans who live in Chicago, comprising 2.9% of the city's population, along with over 150,000 Chinese in the greater Chicago area - making Chicago's Chinese community the 8th largest ...
A massive sink hole stretching 100 feet opened up in an Illinois park on Wednesday, swallowing a light pole in the middle of recreational fields and leaving a gaping, deep hole in its wake.
This isn’t the first time sinkholes have been found in the Great Lakes. In 2001, scientists found sinkholes at the bottom of Lake Huron in the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary .