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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]
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 ...
Explorers found a large area of wild plantain (Heliconia) species at the bottom, as well as square bamboos (Chimonobambusa quadrangularis) [8] with thorns 2 cm to 3 cm long growing around its joints. [9] An unidentified species of eagle was also found inside the sinkhole, living in a family, after which the tiankeng was named. [3]
A clipper that ran aground near Pigeon Point. "On the night of June 6, 1853, the clipper ship Carrier Pigeon ran aground 500 feet off shore of the central California coast. The area is now called Pigeon Point in her honor. The Carrier Pigeon was a state-of-the art, 19th Century clipper ship.
Woman vanishes into 25-foot sinkhole outside home, California rescuers say. Don Sweeney. February 8, 2024 at 4:06 PM. ... Firefighters on scene at 10:15 a.m. found the woman, ...
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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.
A report in the Wall Street Journal from September 2023 found Chinese intruders attempted to breach military facilities over 100 times in recent years, including sneaking onto a missile range in ...