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Family abandons home after sinkhole appears in Sechelt, Canada

John Gleeson
Coast Reporter
Fri, 06 Mar 2015 17:03 UTC
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© Rik JespersenA three-metre-deep sinkhole opened up on this property on Gale Ave. North, in West Porpoise Bay on Feb. 26.
The District of Sechelt was scrambling this week after a three-metre-deep sinkhole emerged on a residential property on Gale Avenue North in the Seawatch subdivision on Feb. 26, prompting the family to leave their home.

The District was scheduling meetings with a geotechnical engineering firm it has retained and the geotechnical firm connected with the developer, Concordia Seawatch Ltd., communications manager Connie Jordison said Wednesday.

Jordison said a second property could also be affected.

"There's a property across the road on lot 9 showing signs of there being an impact on the driveway area, and that house I don't believe is occupied," she said.

A meeting was held Tuesday night with a large group of residents to update them on the problem and the District's response.

The District is continuing to monitor the situation and closed a portion of the road to vehicular traffic as a precautionary measure.
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Villagers concerned over reappearing sinkhole in Bovingdon, UK

Katrina Turrill
Watford Observer
Thu, 05 Mar 2015 20:34 UTC
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After sinkhole was filled in by the land owners, HMP The Mount, but collapsed again.
Villagers are looking for reassurance that land in Bovingdon where a reoccurring sinkhole has appeared is suitable for future development.

The sinkhole, which first appeared around January 17 this year on land by HMP The Mount, was said to be approximately 15ft deep. But soon after the owners of the land, the prison, filled the sinkhole with concrete and soil, the hole collapsed again on February 23.

Many residents in Bovingdon have joked about the hole being a prisoner's escape but serious questions have been raised surrounding the suitability of the land for future housing development plans, whether the hole was filled properly the first time, and what the hole means for residents living nearby.

Ross Butcher, national chair of ModeShift, who lives in Mitchell Close next to the Molyneaux Avenue prison, said: "The sinkhole was discovered by someone walking their dog one morning, and I then went out the next day to take pictures.
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Second sinkhole appears on road in Aldershot, UK

James Chapple
Aldershot News & Mail
Mon, 02 Mar 2015 20:25 UTC
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© Hayley Else-WilliamsAnother sinkhole has appeared in Cambridge Road, Aldershot
Reports surfaced on Monday morning of another sinkhole in Cambridge Road, within touching distance of the spot where the road caved in during January

Another vast sink hole has opened up in a road in Aldershot - just weeks after Thames Water patched up the last one.

Residents in Cambridge Road awoke on Monday morning to find another yawning chasm right outside their houses, within touching distance of the previous carriageway repairs.

The latest hole appeared after a bin lorry drove over an apparent weak spot in the road just yards from where Thames Water dealt with a collapsed sewer in January.

Cambridge Road itself reopened less than a month ago, but already there appears to be fresh problems with the embattled road.

Pictures sent in to the Historic Aldershot Military Town Facebook group on Monday by Gregan Court resident Hayley Else-Williams show a similar hole in the middle of the carriageway, around a metre-and-a-half in length by half-a-metre wide.
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Fallen 50-tonne rock blocks main mountain road near Moûtiers, France

Jenny Awford
Daily Mail, UK
Sun, 01 Mar 2015 19:28 UTC
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Holidaymakers were trapped in the French Alps after a giant 50-tonne boulder blocked a main mountain
Thousands of British holidaymakers were trapped in the French Alps after a giant 50-tonne boulder blocked a main mountain road.

Falling rocks cut off popular resorts Val Thorens, Les Menuires and St Martin and ski enthusiasts were left stranded in a 50-mile tailback.

Holiday coaches were stopped from entering and leaving the resorts in the Tarentaise Valley after authorities ruled the N117 road was too dangerous for large vehicles to use on Friday morning.

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Plow truck gets stuck in sinkhole in Youngstown, Ohio


wkbn.com
Mon, 23 Feb 2015 20:34 UTC
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Snow plow in sinkhole.
An intersection on Youngstown' west side was blocked Monday morning until water department crews could fill in a hole caused by water department excavation.

A city plow truck fell into the hole Sunday afternoon while clearing the intersection of N. Glenellen Ave. and Burbank Ave. in Youngstown.

A tow truck had to pull out the snow plow, which had gone straight through the pavement. The hole has since been patched with dry material.

The accident happened at the same place where a water main broke the week of Feb. 15.
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Over 380 people evacuated in Naples, Italy after massive sinkhole opens up

Ashley Collman
Daily Mail, UK
Sun, 22 Feb 2015 20:02 UTC
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A sinkhole opened up in the middle of a street in Naples, Italy early Sunday morning.
Residents in Naples, Italy woke up this morning to a massive sinkhole that opened up in the middle of a street.

Officials say the sinkhole started off as a depression in the road and is most likely caused by a broken sewer.

'It was 5 this morning when I heard a huge thud. I looked out and saw the road collapse and swallow a car,' a woman who lives in a neighboring apartment told Il Mattino.
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Man and woman fall into sinkhole at South Korean train station


news.asiaone.com
Sun, 22 Feb 2015 15:45 UTC
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© StompMan and woman falling into sinkhole
A man and woman got off a train in South Korea, only to fall right into a sinkhole in the train station.

CCTV footage shows what happened during that incident.

As the man and woman get off the train, a patch of tiles in the station can be seen looking slightly out of place compared to the rest of the floor.

As both the man and woman step onto that patch, the section of floor gives and they both fall in.

Another man and woman look on in shock after narrowly avoiding the fall.

According to online reports, the man and woman sustained injuries from their fall.

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The mysterious widening sinkhole of General Santos City in the Philippines

Edwin G. Espejo
rappler.com
Fri, 20 Feb 2015 20:15 UTC
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© Ronald Velasquez The quay faces threat of disappearance if the underwater hole continues to eat into the shores
If the hole keeps growing bigger, it could affect more than 1,000 families living in the area

Residents here who have resisted relocation for more than 30 years now are left with no other choice but to leave the shores where many of them practically lived all their lives.

43-year-old Reynante Desidorio said he was born in Purok Tinago, a community of informal settlers in Barangay South Dadiangas, and has not known any other work but to supervise the loading and unloading of copra and other agricultural products from Balut Island in a makeshift wooden jetty near his house.

But even that quay will soon disappear if the underwater hole continues to eat into the shores and gobble their homes.
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Eleven killed and 30 injured when North Korean sinkhole collapses

Joshua Lipes
rfa.org
Wed, 18 Feb 2015 18:40 UTC
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© AFPFarmers in a field on North Korea's west coast, April 8, 2012
Eleven people—most of them women—were killed and around 30 injured in North Korea when earth they were plowing collapsed beneath them, according to a source inside the country.

The workers had been mobilized to plow at the October 18 Jonghap Farm in Yanggang province, along the border with China, on Feb. 3 as part of an annual bid by the Kim Jong Un regime to improve acidic soil for farming, an area resident told RFA's Korean Service on condition of anonymity.

Due to low temperatures during the winter, much of the earth had been turned to ice, and the workers—from the Baek-du Youth Team, and the Baek-am Tile Works and Rural Construction Unit—had been ordered to dig until they found unfrozen soil, the source said.

However, a sinkhole had developed beneath the ice and when the workers pierced through the frozen layer of soil, the ground collapsed, burying them alive, according to the source.
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Sinkhole swallows snow plow truck in New Jersey

Dan Stamm
NBC - New York
Tue, 17 Feb 2015 19:59 UTC
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© Tim WynkoopA sinkhole opened in the morning of Feb. 17, 2015, in the first block of Wordsworth Drive in Lopacong Townshiup, swallowing a plow truck.
A plow truck fell into a sinkhole Tuesday morning along a snow-covered New Jersey road.

The accident happened along Wordsworth Lane in Lopatcong Township in Warren County as a snowstorm moved out of the area around 7:30 a.m., said Mayor Tom McKay.

Instagram user MRLish456 captured the aftermath on Instagram. The township truck's plow could be seen dangled above the truck, which was partially emerged in the hole.

The shaken driver of the plow managed to get out of his vehicle. He was taken to the hospital for observation, said McKay.

The township issued a warning for people to avoid the area. McKay said it could take hours to remove the truck.

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