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Sinkhole appears near the epicenter of earthquake in Turkey

Ece Nagihan
Expatguideturkey.com
Mon, 13 Feb 2023 11:06 UTC
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The sinkhole that emerged after the earthquake in the creek in Diyarbakir's Lice district continues to absorb the water.

Diyarbakır was among the provinces affected by two major earthquakes centered in Kahramanmaras.

More than 300 people lost their lives in the city, where many buildings were destroyed.

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Bizarro Earth

Sinking land forces hundreds to leave Indian temple town

Biswajeet Banerjee
Phys Org
Sun, 08 Jan 2023 14:53 UTC
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© Associated PressA motorist navigates his way through a crack on a road in Joshimath, India, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. Authorities have stopped all construction activity and started shifting hundreds of people panicking after seeing a temple collapse and cracks in over 600 houses due to subsidence of land in a northern Indian hilly town, officials said on Saturday.
Authorities in an Indian Himalayan town have stopped construction activities and started moving hundreds of people to temporary shelters after a temple collapsed and cracks appeared in over 600 houses because of sinking of land, officials said Saturday.

Residents of Joshimath town in Uttarakhand state say they started noticing cracks in houses, especially after 2021 floods in the region. No injury was reported in the temple collapse late Friday and those living nearby had vacated the area a day earlier.

Himanshu Khurana, a district administrator, said more than 60 families have been moved to government relief camps. The number is likely to go up to 600 families, media reports said.

Television images also showed cracks in roads, hampering the movement of vehicles.

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2022: Storms, Sheets of Rain and Tornadoes in the Netherlands

Amari Roos
Sott.net
Thu, 29 Dec 2022 20:23 UTC
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© indebuurtStorm Corrie touches down in Scheveningen, a district of The Hague, Netherlands, on January 31st, 2022.
There was a stormy start to 2022 as at least four storms battered the Netherlands throughout the end of January and February. During the year, the country also saw snowfall, floods, sinkholes, tornadoes and fireballs. Below are some highlights from extreme weather events in the Netherlands in 2022.

Comment: See also:

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Vehicle falls into sinkhole along residential street in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania

Mike Darnay
CBC News
Fri, 30 Dec 2022 11:01 UTC
A vehicle fell into a sinkhole along Biddle Avenue in Wilkinsburg.
© Adam BurgessA vehicle fell into a sinkhole along Biddle Avenue in Wilkinsburg.
A vehicle fell into a sinkhole along a residential street in Wilkinsburg.

The sinkhole opened up sometime on Thursday evening along Biddle Avenue at the intersection of West Street.

Viewer video shows a vehicle that had fallen into the sinkhole.

Our news crew at the scene witnessed cones and barriers set up around the hole.

We've reached out to Wilkinsburg Police for more information and an estimated timeframe on repairs, but have not heard back.

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Large sinkhole closes stretch of Route 191 in Lower Nazareth, Pennsylvania


wfmz.com
Wed, 28 Dec 2022 12:10 UTC
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A large sinkhole is causing traffic troubles in part of Northampton County.

The sinkhole opened up on Route 191 in Lower Nazareth Township, the township said in a social media post on Wednesday.

Route 191 is closed between Newburg Road in Lower Nazareth Township and Brodhead Road in Bethlehem Township. That stretch sees more than 13,000 vehicles daily, PennDOT says.
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Massive sinkhole opens up inside Yorktown, New York park

Jenna DeAngelis
CBC News
Tue, 27 Dec 2022 14:35 UTC
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A sinkhole has shut down a popular park in Westchester County.

CBS2 went up to Yorktown on Tuesday to find out more about the impact on the community.

Chopper 2 captured images of the large sinkhole at Woodlands Legacy Field, a park containing a multi-sports complex for Yorktown families, located on the east side of the Taconic State Parkway.

"I used to run up there. My wife works out there, and we let our dogs run around up there and we go hiking in the paths behind there, too, so we actually use it quite a bit," resident Mark Eckersdorff said. "They do a lot of sports there, but in the winter it's kind of deserted."

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Moment the dance floor at graduation party collapses and sinkhole swallows 25 dancing students in Peru

Neirin Gray
Daily Mail
Thu, 22 Dec 2022 13:01 UTC
Once the dust settled and the students got to their feet they started clambering out of the hole
Once the dust settled and the students got to their feet they started clambering out of the hole
Students were celebrating their graduation in Peru when the concrete dance floor collapsed, causing 25 of them to descend into a sinkhole the size of multiple cars.

The group of boys and girls were huddled together in a tight group, jumping up and down in unison to music when the ground cracked and a crater formed.

A video of the disaster was uploaded to TikTok on December 17 with a caption, written in Spanish: 'Prom night turns to tragedy.'

The incident was covered by the Peruvian newspaper El Popular, which reported that there were no fatalities, but it is not clear if there were any severe injuries.

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Enormous 100ft-wide 'Gate to Hell' sinkhole opens up near Russian ski resort

Eleanor Dye, Will Stewart
Daily Mail
Mon, 12 Dec 2022 10:12 UTC
An enormous 100ft-wide 'Gate to Hell' sinkhole has opened at the Sheregesh mine in Sibera's Kemerovo region
An enormous 100ft-wide 'Gate to Hell' sinkhole has opened at the Sheregesh mine in Sibera's Kemerovo region
An enormous 100ft-wide 'Gate to Hell' sinkhole has opened up near a ski resort in Russia at a mine reportedly owned by a sanctioned firm linked to Roman Abramovich.

The huge collapse came at the Sheregesh mine in Sibera's Kemerovo region, near to a popular ski resort.

Residents of a total of four homes had been earlier moved from the site amid fears of a collapse. There are understood to be no casualties.

The incident happened at an iron-ore mine ultimately owned by a British incorporated company linked to ex-Chelsea FC billionaire Roman Abramovich.

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Utility truck swallowed by sinkhole in South Fulton, Georgia

Wimberly Patton
cdllife.com
Thu, 17 Nov 2022 13:14 UTC
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A large sinkhole opened up on a roadway in Georgia on Thursday morning, causing a utility truck to fall around 10 feet into the ground.

The incident happened on November 17th in a neighborhood in South Fulton, Georgia.

A witness says they saw the truck driving down Loch Lomond Drive when the road suddenly buckled, taking the utility truck with it.

The approximately 10 foot deep, 22 foot wide hole caused the truck to fall sideways. The driver was not hurt in the incident.

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New island appears in area with high underwater volcanic activity Pacific Ocean - NASA

Frank Landymore
Futurism
Fri, 14 Oct 2022 11:31 UTC
Home Reef Seamount
Home Reef Seamount
This fledgling patch of land spawned out of a seafloor ridge teeming with highest density of underwater volcanoes on the planet. Known as the Home Reef seamount, the underwater mountain stretches between New Zealand and Tonga.

Starting this month, one of those volcanoes bubbled to life and erupted, brimming with lava that spilled out into the surrounding ocean and billowed voluminous plumes of ashy smoke into the air, according to the Earth Observatory's release.

Eleven hours later, amidst the shimmering heat of the subsiding eruption, a brand spankin' new island emerged. And thankfully, NASA's Operational Land Imager-2 (OLI-2) managed to capture the island in all its new found glory in a beautiful, natural-color image.

Comment: There are a variety of other signs that geologic activity across the planet is increasing: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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