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Earth opens up and swallows Florida man sleeping in his bed - still missing as sinkhole grows 100 feet wide

Tina Burnside
CNN
Fri, 01 Mar 2013 04:40 UTC

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A 36-year-old man is missing after a sinkhole opened up under his bedroom in Brandon, Florida.
A 36-year-old man disappeared Thursday night when a sinkhole opened up under his bedroom in Florida, swallowing him as his brother tried to rescue him, authorities said.

Right after the ground started to give way in his home in Brandon, his brother frantically tried to keep him from sinking into the hole, an emergency official said.

The first deputy on the scene pulled the victim's brother from the edge of the growing chasm, said Jessica Damico, a spokeswoman for the Hillsborough County Fire Rescue.

Authorities have been unable to contact the man as the sinkhole expanded. The house was deemed unsafe for rescuers, Damico said.

Late Thursday night, the hole was about 100 feet wide and still growing, authorities said.

Area homes have been evacuated.
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Giant sinkhole opens up in San Francisco

Brock Keeling
sfist
Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:10 UTC
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Around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, a ruptured water main at 15th Avenue and Wawona Street in West Portal sent a "waist high wall of water" rushing down the street, flooding homes and leaving behind a deep sinkhole on 15th Avenue.

Utility crews took about an hour to shut off the water, but that was enough time for the river of water to trap some residents outside of their flooded homes and leave high-water marks on parked cars. One neighbor told KTVU his home had about a foot and a half of water in it. Another neighbor's home received extensive damage to a bedroom where her 14-year-old son had been sleeping.

Crews were on the scene this morning cleaning up the muddy mess with bulldozers and hosing down cars and driveways in the torrent's path.
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Comment: With sinkholes and fissures opening up everywhere, including in places with no water mains, is it leaking water causing the ground to disappear or something else?

Update 2: Arizona highway 'sinkhole' is actually a whole mountain coming apart!

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Update 2: Arizona highway 'sinkhole' is actually a whole mountain coming apart!


WFMY News2
Mon, 25 Feb 2013 04:30 UTC
The giant fissure in the ground swallowed two cars in Page, Arizona, and caused 120 feet of highway to sink over 8 feet. But geologists are now also worried that the road may be irreparable for a long time because it appears that the whole side of the mountain is sinking!
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Update: Highway-89 sinkhole in Arizona is 150-feet wide, 5-feet deep, more sinkholes possible


Lakepowelllife.com
Fri, 22 Feb 2013 04:32 UTC
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Arizona Department of Transportation spokesperson Tim Tate says that the possibility of more sinkholes appearing in the vicinity of the one that was discovered Wednesday morning remains a concern. Tate says that in addition to engineers and workers dispatched to the area of the Big Cut to assess and move forward with road restoration, about 25-miles south of Page, workers are also looking for signs of other sinkholes.

Tate says the 150-feet wide, 5-feet deep chasm was first reported by two unlucky motorists who apparently drove on the scene not long after the sinkhole appeared. Both drivers suffered minor injuries, possibly from their airbags being deployed.

The region is filled with sand and rock and ADOT workers are taking soil samples as part of the effort to solve the mystery of why the sinkhole appeared. Tate says officials don't believe the incident was weather related and may have been triggered by a geologic occurrence. A check of the U.S. Geological Survey's website doesn't show any earthquake activity in the area of the sinkhole preceding its emergence.

Highway 89 does remain closed at the sinkhole between Page and Tuba City near the Big Cut. Tate says repairing the roadway may be costly and take awhile to accomplish.

Comment:
Northern Arizona roadway collapses: Not weather related - possible geologic event

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Northern Arizona roadway collapses: Not weather related - possible geologic event

Deborah Stocks
ABC15.com
Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:26 UTC
A northern Arizona roadway is closed after the pavement collapsed Wednesday. The Arizona Department of Transportation says a 150-foot section of US 89 buckled this morning about 25 miles south of Page.

Officials say the cause is not weather related and may be a "geologic event."
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Giant sinkhole swallows building in Bundaberg, Queensland, 10 more at risk


9 News
Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:21 UTC
Bundaberg sinkhole
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Now you see it, now you don't. A sinkhole appeared at Midtown Marina in Bundaberg.
Authorities fear more buildings could topple into a sinkhole that has swallowed a two-storey building in the flood-ravaged Queensland city of Bundaberg.

Mayor Mal Forman says about 10 businesses, including a multi-level hotel, are at risk along the Burnett River.

Another deluge has further destabilised the banks of the river after the recent floods caused by ex-cyclone Oswald.

A sinkhole that opened up on Tuesday morning has already swallowed a two-storey building that was part of Jan Douglas's Midtown Marina business.

Authorities are yet to decide if they will evacuate other properties in the area, but say there's a potential for further collapses.
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Sinkhole causes partial building collapse in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

Sari Heidenreich
abc27.com
Wed, 06 Feb 2013 05:41 UTC
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A sinkhole opened up and caused the partial collapse of a building in Chambersburg Wednesday morning.

The sinkhole was called in just before 9 a.m. at the old Tower Bank building at 2001 Lincoln Way East in Guilford Township. The building was vacant and no one was injured.

Township Road Superintendent Frank Hobbs said the sinkhole occurred on private property but is within 75 feet of Lincoln Way East, also known as Route 30, which is maintained by the state. PennDOT was called in to evaluate the situation.

Hobbs said the situation has now been handed over to Susquehanna Bank, which currently owns the building. He said the gas and electricity in the building have been shut off.
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In just one month, more than 40 huge sinkholes open up all over Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's capital, but the city is too broke to fix them

Damian Ghigliotty
Daily Mail, UK
Mon, 04 Feb 2013 06:43 UTC
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Harrisburg sinking: Pennsylvania's capital is riddled with sinkholes
  • Pennsylvania's state capital Harrisburg is struggling with 41 massive sinkholes running as wide as 50 feet
  • The city is too broke to fix them as it deals with ongoing fiscal problems
  • It could cost nearly half of Harrisburg's $50 million budget to permanently fix the holes
Officials in Pennsylvania's state capital are dealing with an abysmal issue they can't afford to fix: 41 massive sinkholes throughout the city as wide as 50 feet and as deep as a typical grave.

The mix of loose sandy soil and century-old leaking water pipes under Harrisburg's streets have made the area susceptible to such holes, city officials say.

But the city is too broke to replace many of the aging pipes and repave its roads as it deals with ongoing budget woes and the looming threat of bankruptcy, according to media reports.
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Large sinkhole swallows tree near DeLand, Florida


Click Orlando
Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:32 UTC
Sinkhole DeLand
© 6 News
Hole is 32 feet wide, 30 feet deep, police say
Officials are investigating a "good-sized" sinkhole in DeLand that has swallowed a large tree and a portion of a fence.

The Volusia County Sheriff's Office said the sinkhole opened near Mill Road and State Road 17. Officials estimated the hole to be 32 feet and 30 feet deep.

Local 6 News helicopter Sky 6 flew over the hole, which is located in a rural area of DeLand. A home is located about 50 yards from the sinkhole.
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Huge landslide demolishes US-441 in North Carolina


WBIR.com
Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:44 UTC

Park officials now believe they know what caused the massive landslide, which took out a football field-sized portion of Newfound Gap Road (US 441) on the North Carolina side.

Officials said they found a subsurface spring underneath the landslide site and they aren't quite sure how long its been there. They said the spring, along with last week's massive amounts of rainfall, contributed to the landslide Wednesday morning, near mile marker 22 between Collins Creek and Webb Overlook.

"We were unaware of this subsurface spring which causes embankment failure," said Acting Deputy Superintendent Alan Sumeriski.
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