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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 literally 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]
Shaanxi tiankeng cluster is a group of 19 karst sinkholes in Shaanxi Province, China. The discovery was made in February 2016 and announced by geologists on November 24, 2016. [1] Located within a 200 km-long karst landform belt in the southwest part of the province near Hanzhong City, the cluster is one of the largest on Earth. [2]
Its depth and width must measure at least 100m for it to qualify as a sinkhole. Some, like the one found in Guangxi in 2022, are much bigger, stretching 300m into the earth and 150m wide ...
On May 6, 2022, [2] scientist Yuanhai Zhang and Lixin Chen, founder of the Guangxi 702 Cave Expedition Club, led the expedition in Leye County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, South China. [3] [4] Chen led the descent into the sinkhole, the expedition team used the single-rope technique to descend a vertical cliff into the sinkhole. Not long ...
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A gigantic sinkhole in Guangzhou, China, opened up near a subway construction site, swallowing a building complex Wednesday. The sinkhole was about 3,230 square feet wide and 30 feet deep ...
The Great Blue Hole, a giant submarine sinkhole, near Ambergris Caye, Belize The following is a list of sinkholes , blue holes , dolines , crown holes , cenotes , and pit caves . A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer.
Six people died after a sinkhole swallowed a bus in China. The incident occurred in Xining City in the northwestern part of the country. The collapse of the road was captured on closed-circuit ...