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Australia - Sink Hole Sucks Away Trees at Inskip Point

Kristin Shorten
The Corier Mail, Australia
Sun, 26 Jun 2011 07:00 UTC
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© Glenn Barnes / The Courier-Mail Big Bite: Inskip Peninsula campers cautiously check out the sink hole.
Now you see it, now you don't. That was the case at Inskip beach, north of Tin Can Bay, yesterday as a 100m-wide section of beach was swallowed by a sink hole.

The hole opened up on the popular stretch of beach about 10.30am and by mid-afternoon it looked like a giant bite had been taken out of the coastline.

Campers on Inskip Peninsula watched in awe as chunks of sand were sucked out to sea, followed by trees and signs.
Visitor Rhonda Harris said it was a "phenomenon''.

"When we first came up about 11am the water was actually bubbling like it was boiling,'' she said.

"We saw the 'no camping' sign get washed out.''

Camper Shane Hillhouse said four-wheel drives had been travelling along the popular stretch of sand, near Inskip Peninsula, shortly before the hole appeared.
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US: Two Killed After Driving into Massive Hole in Flooded Road


Reuters
Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:59 UTC
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© UnknownReference Image, not actual.
Two South Dakota motorists died on Tuesday after they drove separately into a massive hole in a roadway washed out by heavy rains, and both vehicles were swept downstream by rushing water, police said.

Heavy rains opened a section of road 10 miles north of Reliance, South Dakota, about 60 feet wide and 50 feet deep that was obscured partly by an uphill grade, said Lieutenant Alan Welsh of the South Dakota Highway Patrol.

The vehicles plunged into the crevice and down into a normally dry creek bed that had been swollen by up to 6 inches of rain, Welsh said. The creek bed flows toward the Missouri River east of where the crashes occurred.

Both of the motorists were from nearby towns. Police identified them as a 56-year-old Chamberlain woman who was found in her vehicle about 100 yards from the crash site and a 61-year-old Lower Brule woman found four miles downstream.

State transportation officials have closed the road.
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India - Cracks in Uttar Pradesh plains need monitoring, warns scientist


Indiatoday.intoday.in
Sat, 18 Jun 2011 07:41 UTC
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Long widespread cracks observed in several places in the Indo-Gangetic plains could be due to motion of a massive granitic body underneath, an Indian scientist in the United States has cautioned.

"It is my sincere appeal to the government of India to monitor seismic activities in the area before any major disaster takes place," Ramesh Singh, who had extensively studied the seismology in that region, said in a statement as concern mounted over cracks being formed in several districts of Uttar Pradesh.

"If the orientations of such long cracks are in the east-west direction, then the cracks could be due to stress on the surface of the earth due to motion of this massive craton (granitic body) which is exposed near Jhansi," Singh said.

Singh, who was a senior professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT-K), is now professor at George Mason University in Washington and vice chair of GeoRisk Commission of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics.

He said this massive body underlying the region is inclined towards northeast with depth reaching 300-500 m near Kanpur and 1,200 m in Lucknow. He said he and his colleagues at IIT-K had studied the configuration of this craton in 1990 using magnetotelluric method.
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North Dakota, US: Sinkhole closes Fargo overpass

Mike Nowatzki and Wendy Reuer
In Forum
Tue, 14 Jun 2011 08:34 UTC
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© Dave Wallis / The ForumThe Seventh Avenue North bridge over Interstate 29 in Fargo was closed to traffic after the asphalt road surface caved in because of a sinkhole that opened up Sunday
A bridge over Interstate 29 in north Fargo, slated to be replaced next year, is still sound after a sinkhole was discovered this past weekend near its base, officials say.

Traffic is being detoured away from the Seventh Avenue North overpass because of the sinkhole, which measures about 2 feet deep and 3 feet wide, said Lee Anderson, Fargo Public Works maintenance supervisor.

Jamie Olson with the North Dakota Department of Transportation said Monday that engineers found the sinkhole caused no problems for the 45-year-old bridge.

"There are no issues with the structure of the bridge," Olson said.

NDDOT plans to fully reconstruct the two-lane overpass in 2012, widening it to include an enclosed pedestrian walkway.
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US: 45' deep sinkhole appears in Pittsburgh parking lot

Jewels Phraner
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:38 UTC
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The manager for Norwin Hills Shopping Center expects that parking lot damage from recent storms should be repaired by this weekend.

Late Saturday night, 30 feet below the parking lot, a storm drain broke, causing the asphalt and soil to crumble, and form a sinkhole 25 feet in diameter.

The storm water system then clogged, flooding Barnes Lake Road.

"We wanted to see that Barnes Lake Road was open for traffic," said Mike Turley, North Huntingdon Township interim manager. "But the shopping center is private property."

North Huntingdon and Westmoreland County officials worked through Sunday and Monday to pump water off of Barnes Lake Road, while the shopping center has hired a company to fix the sinkhole.

"It was just an anomaly," said Philip Schneider, the Lamar Co. asset manager for the shopping center.
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SOTT Focus: Sinkholes - A Sign of the Times?

Jörg Klinger
Sott.net
Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:00 UTC
Bizarre reports of gaping holes in the ground continue to come in from all over the place - in cities, on the open roads, in the countryside. Many of the 'sinkholes' you'll see below have been individually explained away as happening due to heavy rainfall during storms, old leftover constructions from mining and subsidence caused by some nearby disturbance - either natural or man-made. The cause of others, however, remain mysterious. I think the important thing to consider is why so many of these sinkholes are appearing at once.

If you consider that the universe speaks to us in symbols, then perhaps there may be a deeper meaning behind their appearance at this evolutionary crossroads for humanity? With all the other Earth Changes going on before our very eyes, I think sinkholes provide more evidence that an old stable system -- namely, Earth's surface -- is breaking up. Have a look at this collection of images gathered on SOTT from recent years and months (days even!) and see what you think.

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© unknown2006. After a 6.7 tremblor struck Hawaii.
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Rift more than six miles long and three miles across opens near Puyehue volcano, Chile


Associated Press
Sun, 05 Jun 2011 05:09 UTC
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There are no reports of injuries so far, but more than 3,500 people have evacuated their homes near an erupting volcano in southern Chile.

Authorities say a rift more than six miles long and three miles across was torn in the earth's crust about 2½ miles from the peak originally thought to be erupting. The violent eruption sent smoke and ash billowing into the sky.

About 600 people were evacuated when the first alert went up and hundreds more left their homes after the eruption began.

Wind carried ash across the Andes to an Argentine tourist town, which had to close its airport. Officials in the town warned residents to take precautions against a possible prolonged ashfall.

The eruption is nearly 620 miles south of Chile's national capital, Santiago.
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Big Apple, Cracked! New York, US: Midtown sinkhole stops rush hour traffic, baffles investigators

Meagan Watson
NY Daily News
Tue, 07 Jun 2011 08:37 UTC
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© Andrew Savulich/NewsDepartment of Environmental Protection investigators inspect sinkhole in midtown Manhattan.
A midtown sinkhole snarled rush hour traffic Monday night on W. 57th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues - its second appearance in a year.

No one was injured when the near five-foot by three-foot hole appeared mid-block around 2 p.m., officials said.

The NYC Department of Environmental Protection, was on the scene, but could not explain the sinkhole. They said no leaks had been detected and promised to investigate the problem.
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A collection of sinkhole images from around the world


Yahoo! News
Tue, 31 May 2011 16:39 UTC
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Powerful thunderstorms and widespread flooding caused this sinkhole to open up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Lorry Swallowed By Hole In Chinese Bridge


Sky News
Mon, 30 May 2011 16:10 UTC
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© UnknownMay 30th 2011. China. The bridge collapsed in the early hours of Sunday morning, injuring two men.
An investigation is under way in northeast China after a giant hole opened up in a road bridge, swallowing a passing lorry.

Two men who were inside the lorry were injured when the road collapsed beneath their vehicle, causing them to plunge into the river below.

The hole in the bridge measured approximately 14 metres by five metres, and developed in a section of the bridge that was built as an extension in 1995.

Local media reported that authorities suspect the lorry, which was carrying steel pipes, was overloaded.

However, the dramatic hole in the bridge across the Yitong River in Changchun city, the capital of Jilin province, is not the only such incident of a road structure failure in China in recent months.

Comment: Huge sinkhole appears in Germany! Usedom Island has a 'Grand Canyon' now

Florida: Sinkhole Opens up in Venus Backyard

Miraculous escape for driver as car falls 20ft into sinkhole at traffic lights during storm

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