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The Red Lake sinkhole in Croatia. A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer. The term is sometimes used to refer to doline, enclosed depressions that are also known as shakeholes, and to openings where surface water enters into underground passages known as ponor, swallow hole or swallet.
A cenote (English: / s ɪ ˈ n oʊ t i / or / s ɛ ˈ n oʊ t eɪ /; Latin American Spanish:) is a natural pit, or sinkhole, resulting when a collapse of limestone bedrock exposes groundwater. The term originated on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, where the ancient Maya commonly used cenotes for water supplies, and occasionally for ...
2018 Surabaya City sinkhole – a 30 m (98 ft) wide and 15 m (49 ft) deep sinkhole opened up on Gubeng Road in Surabaya, Indonesia during construction work on December 18, 2018. 2022 Tierra Amarilla sinkhole – a 25 m (80 ft) wide and more than 200 m (700 ft) deep sinkhole appeared in the commune of Tierra Amarilla , Atacama Region of Chile ...
Sinkholes can range in size from a few feet wide to hundreds of acres, and anywhere from 1 to 100 feet or more deep. Sinkholes can swallow up cars, parts of roads and even houses.
The dissolved minerals create spaces inside the rock, weakening it until it collapses. Sinkholes can range in diameter and depth. Some have vertical walls, others look like saucers or shallow ...
Activists say a growing chasm on the South Side is a dangerous sinkhole. Metro Parks says it was actually caused by flooding and won't impact plans for a park.
Peter Sinks is a natural sinkhole in northern Utah that is one of the coldest places in the contiguous United States.. Peter Sinks is located 8,100 feet (2,500 m) above sea level, in the Bear River Mountains about 20 mi (32 km) east of Logan, within the Wasatch-Cache National Forest.
A sinkhole that formed on the eastbound side of I-80 near Wharton, New Jersey caused traffic snarls on the busy highway, about 40 miles west of New York City. Westbound lanes were unaffected.