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Playa de Gulpiyuri – a flooded sinkhole with an inland beach located near Llanes, Spain 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.
Gulpiyuri beach. Playa de Gulpiyuri is a flooded sinkhole [1] with an inland beach located near Llanes, in Asturias Northern Spain, around 100 m from the Cantabrian Sea. [2] It is the shortest beach in the world.
The Sacred Cenote at Chichen Itza. The Sacred Cenote (Spanish: cenote sagrado, Latin American Spanish: [ˌsenote saˈɣɾaðo], "sacred well"; alternatively known as the "Well of Sacrifice") is a water-filled sinkhole in limestone at the pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site of Chichen Itza, in the northern Yucatán Peninsula.
Latest on search: Missing woman feared to have fallen into sinkhole: Shoe found as search continues. ... In 2013, a Florida man was killed as he slept when a sinkhole near Tampa opened up. His ...
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 .
The sinkhole, which now measures 40m (131ft) in diameter, opened at a road intersection in Yashio city near Tokyo. It is believed to be caused by a sewer rupture.
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 ...
Nerja has a long history, evidenced by the primitive paintings found in its famous Nerja caves, discovered in pedro sanchez 1959. [4] These caves are now believed to be just one entrance to a linked series of sinkholes [5] stretching many miles into the mountains between Nerja and Granada, and which may yet prove to be one of the most extensive unexplored systems in Europe.