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Massive sinkhole opens La Habra, California


CBS News - Los Angeles
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 18:10 UTC
Sinkhole in La Habra, CA
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An enormous sinkhole opened up after an underground flood channel collapsed in La Habra, causing trees to collapse and endangering several nearby condos.

The sinkhole formed in a greenbelt between two condominium complexes at the Coyote Creek complex in the 900 block of West Imperial Highway at about 10:45 p.m. Wednesday.

"The whole house shook and it felt like a bunch of cars full on like hit the house," resident Matt Tucker said.

Tucker was at work when he got a call from his wife telling him the ground in front of their home had given way and a tree had slammed into the front.

The gaping maw between the two buildings is 80 feet long and 20 feet deep. The ground surrounding the sinkhole is so unstable, trees are collapsing into the sinkhole.

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Road near Delhi Metro station caves in, vehicles trapped in huge sinkhole


DNA India
Wed, 16 Jan 2019 13:52 UTC
Road caves in Delhi Minister Gopal Rai reached the spot to inspect it
Road caves in Delhi Minister Gopal Rai reached the spot to inspect it
A portion of a busy road in Delhi caved in, creating a huge sinkhole and trapping a car and an auto-rickshaw. The incident took place near the Maujpur-Babarpur Metro station on Monday evening.

Two people were in the car while the auto had one person. All the people were rescued soon after their vehicles got trapped in the sinkhole. The vehicles were later pulled out with the help of cranes.

The pictures from the incident showed both the auto-rickshaw and the car in the pit. A large crowd had gathered around the sinkhole after the incident.

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20-ft sinkhole opens up on expressway in Milpitas, California


kron4.com
Sat, 12 Jan 2019 15:04 UTC
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A sinkhole that opened up on a busy highway in Milpitas caused a traffic nightmare for drivers.

Construction crews worked through Saturday to fill up the large crevice that's at least 20-feet deep.

The sinkhole emerged Friday morning on Montague Expressway between Main Street and Trade Zone.

A team from Granite Rock Construction sized up the hole and found some damage to a storm drain.

Ricky Smith said, "We're going to have to dig it up, expose it, repair what's going on with that storm drain, obviously do structural back-fill and get it up to grade and repave."

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Man rescued from sinkhole in Clovis, California


abc30.com
Tue, 08 Jan 2019 16:08 UTC
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Repair crews with the City of Clovis spent the day fixing a sinkhole big enough to swallow a car after Public Works says a water main broke under a section of Clovis Avenue between Herndon and Alluvial overnight.

The sun hadn't even come up yet when officers were called to the scene to rescue a driver after his white sedan became submerged.

"Just a little bit shocking to enter a sinkhole but they were able to get him out and everybody is ok," said Scott Redelfs, Clovis Public Utilities Director.

Traffic in both directions was shutdown for hours.

One lane of traffic is now back open here at Clovis and Chennault, but drivers should try to avoid the area if possible as city workers continue to investigate the cause of the sinkhole.

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Car falls into large sinkhole at intersection in Fort Worth, Texas


fox4news.com
Thu, 03 Jan 2019 11:36 UTC
The driver of a Lexus sedan ended up in a sinkhole that opened up in Fort Worth, Jan. 3, 2019.
© Eddie MorolezThe driver of a Lexus sedan ended up in a sinkhole that opened up in Fort Worth, Jan. 3, 2019.
It may not have snowed in the Dallas-Fort Worth area but road conditions were still bad Thursday morning. And one street in Fort Worth developed a sinkhole.

The hole opened up on the corner of 7th and Carroll streets around 8:30 a.m.

Police said they initially got a call about a large pothole at the intersection. But when officers pulled up, they found something much bigger.

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Three rivers suddenly turn blood red in Malawi and Indonesia


Strange Sounds
Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:00 UTC
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Signs of the End of Times? Two rivers turn blood overnight in Malawi and Indonesia.

The source of Linthipe River in Dedza turned blood red on Wednesday, December 19, 2018, shocking residents living along the river.

Shocked residents of Nthandizi and Airfield in Dedza said the blood like flow was noticed at around 2pm.

"As usual, we came to this place to wash our clothes besides drawing water for home use. But to our surprise we saw that blood like stuff was flowing in the river. This scared us and we called some people to witness the bizarre phenomenon," one woman said.

Comment: As noted above, the cause of these rivers suddenly turning red could be due to algae, contamination from a mine or even deliberate industrial pollution, but the question remains why so many waterways across the planet are suddenly being affected in this way? Could it be related to the ground becoming increasingly unstable, changes in the properties of the water or is it just increased negligence from manufacturers? For more on Earth Change related speculations, see: Sinkholes: The groundbreaking truth and also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Earth changes in an electric universe: Is climate change really man-made?

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Seawatch in British Columbia gets another sinkhole - 6 meters wide and deep

Sophie Woodrooffe
Coast Reporter
Thu, 27 Dec 2018 16:30 UTC
A new sinkhole has appeared on property near Seawatch Lane, in close proximity to other sinkholes that have formed previously, including one in September.
© Sophie WoodrooffeA new sinkhole has appeared on property near Seawatch Lane, in close proximity to other sinkholes that have formed previously, including one in September.
Another sinkhole has formed at Sechelt's Seawatch neighbourhood and is within throwing distance from a cluster of sinkholes that developed previously, including one in September.

The new sinkhole is located on vacant property, owned by developer Concordia, on the 6600 block of Seawatch Lane and measures approximately six metres (20 feet) wide with a cavernous interior and a depth of approximately six metres.

An excavator was on scene the morning of Dec. 27 to fill in the hole with rocks. The road remains open.

First responders have been made aware of the sinkhole, according to Rob Michael, interim emergency program coordinator for the Sunshine Coast. He was notified on Boxing Day. "At this point in time, first responders have been pre-notified in case the situation worsens," he said.

Comment: The area also experienced another large sinkhole in 2015, see: Family abandons home after sinkhole appears in Sechelt, Canada

View also this recent video from October 2018:



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Massive sinkhole disrupts traffic along road in Sarawak, Malaysia

Matthew Umpang
Borneo Post
Fri, 28 Dec 2018 14:06 UTC
A lorry hangs precariously over the sinkhole
© Wak Afzan AdanA lorry hangs precariously over the sinkhole after its front wheels became stuck.
A sinkhole that occurred in the middle of Kilometre 53 of the Sri Aman-Kuching road has caused traffic to come to a standstill from both directions.

According to a Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) spokesperson, the incident was discovered at around 4.20am today at the Rapak Tepus, Pantu area along the road.

"This incident has disrupted traffic movement from both directions," the spokesperson added in a statement here today.

It was also learned that the incident had caused a lorry to become stranded in the pit. The sink hole is estimated to be more than two metres wide.

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'I thought it was an earthquake': Giant sinkhole opens on busy Indonesia road


Inquirer.net
Wed, 19 Dec 2018 10:36 UTC
An aerial view of the sinkhole on Jl. Raya Gubeng
© THE JAKARTA POSTAn aerial view of the sinkhole on Jl. Raya Gubeng in Surabaya, East Java, on Dec. 19.
A giant sinkhole has appeared in the middle of a busy road in Surabaya, East Java, on Tuesday night, swallowing part of the four-lane Jl. Raya Gubeng and measuring roughly 30 meters wide and 15 meters deep.

The police have cordoned off the area and arranged a traffic detour.

Thousands of vehicles pass the road every day. It usually takes five minutes to travel the entire length of Jl. Gubeng, but now takes roughly one hour.

Rudianto, 47, a resident of Kertajaya subdistrict who was about to drive through the location said he saw trees and lampposts rocking on the roadside just before the incident.

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Earth's magnetic field may be headed for a cataclysm says latest French study

Chris Mahon
Outer Places
Wed, 12 Dec 2018 22:55 UTC
Earth's Magnetic Field
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We've reported on Earth's magnetic field before, including studies claiming that the planet's poles may reverse at any time and studies saying that Earth is probably not headed for a polar reversal at all. At the heart of these studies is the undeniable, millennia-old weakening trend in the planet's magnetic field, which, depending on your point of view, is either a temporary phenomenon that will eventually reverse itself (as it has in the past), or the harbinger of a cataclysmic breakdown of the Earth's entire magnetic shield and a subsequent flip of the magnetic poles.

The most recent study from the EDIFICE project, a geophysical research initiative based in France, claims we're headed for a cataclysm. According to Dr. Nicolas Thouveny, one of the principal investigators for EDIFICE: "The geomagnetic field has been decaying for the last 3,000 years. If it continues to fall down at this rate, in less than one millennium we will be in a critical (period)."
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