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The 2010 Guatemala City sinkhole was a disaster on 30 May 2010, in which an area approximately 20 m (65 feet) in diameter and 90 m (300 feet) deep collapsed in Guatemala City's Zona 2, swallowing a three-story factory.
The sinkhole was created by fluid from a sewer eroding uncemented volcanic ash, limestone, and other pyroclastic deposits underlying Guatemala City. [1] [2] The hazards around the pipe have since then been mitigated, by improved handling of the city's wastewater and runoff, [3] and plans to develop on the site have been proposed.
The 2010 Guatemala City sinkhole. 2007 Guatemala City sinkhole – a 100 m (330 ft) deep sinkhole which formed in 2007 due to sewage pipe ruptures. 2010 Guatemala City sinkhole – a disaster in which an area approximately 20 m (65 ft) across and 90 m (300 ft) deep collapsed, swallowing a three-story factory.
A year after the OceanGate submersible disaster, the company's co-founder is planning another excursion into the deep blue, this time into a "virtually unexplored" sinkhole.
This sinkhole, which is classified by geologists as either a "piping feature" or "piping pseudokarst", was 100 metres (330 ft) deep, and apparently was created by fluid from a sewer eroding the loose volcanic ash, limestone, and other pyroclastic deposits that underlie Guatemala City.
A 30-foot-deep sinkhole formed along an Oregon coastline inches away from one that appeared months earlier, park officials said. The second sinkhole, which is 10 feet wide, appeared Monday, May 8 ...
There are two types of mammoths in the sinkhole: the woolly mammoth and its less furry, larger cousin, the Columbian mammoth. South Dakota is a bit further south than the woolly mammoth's range ...
2007 Guatemala City sinkhole; 2010 Guatemala City sinkhole; 2015 Guatemala landslide; 2018 Volcán de Fuego eruption; F. May 1982 Central America floods;