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...it's obviously man-made.
But with some of these others - particularly the recent very large one in Florida - we must be seeing either old underground cavities enlarging, or people building over "porous" geological structures without realizing they are doing so.
I think the latter is more likely. But maybe both are happening.
I know I visited a huge underground chamber once when I was a kid (about 50 years ago - Moaning Cavern in California) which comes quite close to the surface, but has remained structurally stable for hundreds of years. Maybe it is relatively unique.
In the case of "quicksand" soil can appear quite solid until it liquifies from some source of water infiltrating it. Then it becomes soft, and quite dangerous if the pocket is deep.
But in most of these cases, we are seeing air-filled chambers exposed underneath the broken surface, suggesting that they'd been there all along.