Shenzhen has had a startling number of sinkholes in recent months, and now it has another to add to the list: the latest opened up in Yantian District on Saturday morning (Aug. 17) swallowing two vehicles. Fortunately nobody was seriously injured. This one was 30 square metres in size and five metres deep and, like the last sinkhole in Shenzhen at the start of this month, locals had previously warned authorities that something similar was liable to happen and were ignored, Southern Metropolis Daily reports.

Local residents near the scene of the sinkhole on Yankui Road had noticed several road signs had been collapsing in recent weeks and that sediment had slid onto a nearby basketball court from the road.

There's a huge reminder of Sunday's heavy rain on Dolan Avenue in Gulfport. Barricades now surround a three foot deep hole, which measures about nine feet long and eight feet wide.

Public Works Director Wayne Miller said the collapse of a storm drain pipe created the sinkhole.

WLOX News received pictures from a viewer showing a car perched precariously above the growing hole. It's located about one block north of Highway 90 at Dolan Avenue and 16th Street.

Dolan Avenue is the street where Lynn Meadows Discovery Center is located. Visitors to the children's museum have to detour around the cave-in.

Part of a street in central Wellington has been closed off after a sinkhole opened in the road.

A section of Hobson St in Thorndon is expected to remain cordoned off until at least Monday, after the three-metre square sinkhole was discovered.

Wellington City Council did not believe it was caused by the earthquake but said the collapse of a stormwater drain was the likely explanation.

"It might be the result of a broken stormwater pipe, that's basically collapsed by the sounds of it," council spokesman Richard MacLean said.

"It looks like we're going to close the street to through traffic until Monday."

It was likely the stormwater pipe had eroded over time, and the road had collapsed after the pipe below gave way.

It would not cause water problems for local residents even if it rained, because council would drain water away using other methods.

A Wellington Free spokesnab said the road closure would not affect callouts. Ambulances could still get in and out via Davis St.

Clermont, Florida. - A sinkhole caused a section of a central Florida resort villa to partially collapse early Monday, while another section of the villa was sinking, authorities said.

About 30 percent of the three-story structure collapsed around 3 a.m. Monday, Lake County Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Tony Cuellar said. The villa at the Summer Bay Resort had already been evacuated and no injuries were reported. Cuellar said authorities were also concerned about another section of the villa, which was sinking.

The sinkhole comes five months after one elsewhere in Florida killed a man.

Monday's sinkhole, which is in the middle of the villa, is about 40 to 50 feet in diameter, Cuellar said. He said authorities think it was getting deeper but couldn't tell early Monday if it was growing outward.

The villa houses 24 units and about 20 people were staying in it at the time, Cuellar said.

Collin Backowski, 25, was buried underneath ice and snow Saturday after an ice tunnel in Mt. Hood, Oregon collapsed above him.

Rescuers have recovered the body of a 25-year-old snowboarder who was buried alive in an ice cave collapse in Mount Hood, Oregon.

Friends of Collin Backowski of Pines, Colorado say he was standing only 30 feet to 40 feet ahead of them when the natural ice cave abruptly crashed down on Saturday.

Authorities say the lone snowboarder was instantly covered with a mass of ice and snow the size of a school bus. A full-scale search began on Saturday, and rescuers returned on Sunday with chainsaws and hand tools. They discovered Backowski's body under about 10 feet of snow.

What could possibly go wrong when miners, frackers, and drillers reshape the geology beneath our feet? Talk to the evacuees of Bayou Corne, Louisiana.

About once a month, the residents of Bayou Corne, Louisiana, meet at the Assumption Parish library in the early evening to talk about the hole in their lives. "It was just like going through cancer all over again," says one. "You fight and you fight and you fight and you think, 'Doggone it, I've beaten this thing,' and then it's back." Another spent last Thanksgiving at a 24-hour washateria because she and her disabled husband had nowhere else to go. As the box of tissues circulates, a third woman confesses that after 20 years of sobriety she recently testified at a public meeting under the influence.

"The God of my understanding says, 'As you sow, so shall you reap,'" says Kenny Simoneaux, a balding man in a Harley-Davidson T-shirt. He has instructed his grandchildren to lock up the ammunition. "I'm so goddamn mad I could kill somebody."

But the support group isn't for addiction, PTSD, or cancer, though all of these maladies are present. The hole in their lives is a literal one. One night in August 2012, after months of unexplained seismic activity and mysterious bubbling on the bayou, a sinkhole opened up on a plot of land leased by the petrochemical company Texas Brine, forcing an immediate evacuation of Bayou Corne's 350 residents - an exodus that still has no end in sight. Last week, Louisiana filed a lawsuit against the company and the principal landowner, Occidental Chemical Corporation, for damages stemming from the cavern collapse.

Texas Brine's operation sits atop a three-mile-wide, mile-plus-deep salt deposit known as the Napoleonville Dome, which is sheathed by a layer of oil and natural gas, a common feature of the salt domes prevalent in Gulf Coast states. The company specializes in a process known as injection mining, and it had sunk a series of wells deep into the salt dome, flushing them out with high-pressure streams of freshwater and pumping the resulting saltwater to the surface. From there, the brine is piped and trucked to refineries along the Mississippi River and broken down into sodium hydroxide and chlorine for use in manufacturing everything from paper to medical supplies.

Bayou Corne is the biggest ongoing disaster in the United States you haven't heard of.

Blythewood, SC - A pond that was once a place of enjoyment for some families in Blythewood is nothing more than a big mud hole and why the water drained from the pond is a mystery.

Sometime between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, something happened in the Dawson's Creek neighborhood that caused most of the water to rush out of a pond there.

For a while even nearby Wilson Boulevard was impassible between Rimer Pond Road and Blythewood High School as the water flowed away from the neighborhood.

Residents say a wall holding the water near Wilson Boulevard gave way, but what caused the failure is still not known. Some residents speculate utility work on Wilson Boulevard is the culprit, but that's not been substantiated.

The people who live there now have a big smelly mess to deal with.

Miami Beach -- Crews are working to repair a sinkhole in South Florida, after a car fell in it!

The driver of a Toyota sports car says he was waiting at a stop sign, when he felt his car begin to sink. He tried to drive out, but it was too late.

The driver was able to get out of the car, and crews later pulled the vehicle out of the sinkhole.

City officials say they believe construction equipment caused two cracks in a water main that caused the hole to open. About 500 residents had to deal with a water outage.

Source: CNN

A section of a downtown commercial street swallowed a backhoe on Monday as city crews were getting ready to repair a leaky water main.

The backhoe had started to chip at asphalt near the corner of Ste-Catherine and Guy streets when the ground crumbled beneath it and the heavy machine tumbled in.

The driver of the backhoe was not injured but was taken to hospital to be checked out as a precaution, city officials said.

Emilie Miskdjian, a spokeswoman for the Ville-Marie borough, said the city was alerted to the possible water leak on the weekend.

She said preliminary indications were that the leak caused the problem but more inspections needed to be done to find the exact cause.

A driver had a lucky escape in southern China when a giant sinkhole opened up just inches in front of his car.

The 20ft wide hole - more than 20ft deep - appeared in Nanning city just days after local TV and phone companies had laid new cables under the highway.

"One second the road was there, the next it was just a hole," said one witness.

"The driver managed to stop just in time just as one of his wheels was touching the edge," they added.

And a giant truck ahead of the motor was almost pulled into the hole when its rear wheels were caught in the other side.

A police spokesman said: "We are investigating the cause of the collapse."