Sinkholes

Sinkhole swallows 3 cars in Melbourne, Australia

sbs.com.au
Tue, 16 Dec 2014 11:31 UTC

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A sinkhole in Port Melbourne threatened to flood 50 homes at one stage, Melbourne Fire Brigade commander said.

Residents in a Melbourne suburb woke today to find a massive sinkhole that swallowed cars and trees.

Firefighters were called to Port Melbourne early on Tuesday after a 350mm cast iron water main ruptured under Liardet Street.

Witness Vanessa says she thought a tsunami had hit the waterside suburb.

"I heard car horns, car alarms going off erratically. I thought someone had broken into my car," she told Fairfax radio.

"I went out there, opened up my front door and saw two cars swallowed up in the street right outside my front door and all this water gushing down the street in front of me.

Comment: See also: Woman falls into three metre deep sinkhole in Melbourne, Australia

Massive sinkhole opens up in Berkshire, England garden

BBC
Wed, 17 Dec 2014 20:17 UTC

The hole appeared nearly a fortnight ago and has been growing ever since

A "massive" sinkhole has appeared in the front garden of a house in Berkshire.

The 10m (32ft) wide and 5m (16ft) deep crater formed outside the family home of Sarah Jenkins, in Upper Basildon, near Reading.

Ms Jenkins said: "It's massive and it's getting bigger all the time."

Consultant engineer Dr Clive Edmonds described it as "one of the larger of the hole sizes to appear".

The hole first appeared on 5 December but is continuing to grow.

Ms Jenkins added: "The only access to our property has been across our neighbour's garden.

"It's taken out quite a bit of the driveway and garden and it's sitting underneath my children's climbing frame, so it's very serious.

"It's dangerous. Living with this is absolutely dreadful."

2 men escape car moments before it topples into sinkhole, China

khou.com
Mon, 01 Dec 2014 17:59 UTC

Two men jumped out of a car just in time in China.

A CCTV camera captured the moment a sinkhole formed in the middle of an intersection. One driver apparently couldn't see the whole and partially drove into. Both he and his passenger got out, just as the car fell into the hole upside down.

There were no injuries reported.

According to CBS News, Chinese officials said sand under the road gave way, creating the hole.

Woman falls into three metre deep sinkhole in Melbourne, Australia

Charis Chan
news.com.au
Tue, 25 Nov 2014 16:13 UTC

The hole where that the woman fell into.

A woman has been rescued from a three metre deep sinkhole that opened up in her backyard in Melbourne while she was hanging up her washing.

The 45-year-old was forced to swim and float in water at the bottom of the sinkhole for about half an hour, until her cries for help attracted the attention of neighbours.

Authorities now believe that the hole was on the site of an old well.

An Ambulance Victoria spokesman said the woman was hanging up washing in the backyard about 11.30am when the sinkhole opened up under her feet.

"The woman told us she was hanging washing out in the backyard at about 11.30 this morning when the ground gave way," Paramedic Stephanie Palamberis said.

"She fell with the dirt and mud, dropping about three metres and landing in waist deep water. At one stage her head was under the water.

Sinkhole opens up near old mine in Russia's Ural Mountains

RT
Thu, 20 Nov 2014 19:45 UTC

The sinkhole was first discovered by Uralkali's Solikamsk-2 mine workers on November 18. According to local emergency services, it's located some two miles from the mine itself, in an old abandoned mine.

A sinkhole 20 by 30 meters (65 by 98 feet) in size has been found near a Uralkali mine in Russia's Perm region. While the company says the development is of no further threat, locals fear the whole nearby town could go underground.

The sinkhole was first discovered by Uralkali's Solikamsk-2 mine workers on November 18. According to local emergency services, it's located some two miles from the mine itself, in an old abandoned mine.

Old, out-of-use garden patches were affected by the accident, and there is no danger to locals, as the sinkhole is in no close proximity to any residential buildings, the company said.

There are no "catastrophic" effects of the sinkhole neither for the company, nor for the locals, Uralkali CEO Dmitry Osipov said, adding that the incident has been localised.

Comment: Sinkholes are becoming a common occurrence - here is a global map of sinkholes reported just this year alone:

Severe storms and flash flooding cause chaos in Brisbane

News.com.au
Thu, 20 Nov 2014 07:06 UTC

Video of a man doing backstroke in Brisbane's Queen Street Mall has emerged after the city suffered through one of its most devastating thunderstorms in years. Residents and businesses have been cleaning up today after a severe storm caused flooding and saw houses set on fire in south east Queensland. Damage from the storm and flash flooding includes a four metre sinkhole that opened up on Orchard Rd, Richlands.

During the storm yesterday afternoon more than 16,000 lightning strikes were recorded on the GPATs system, according to electricity provider Energex. Footage also emerged of a possible tornado on the outskirts of Brisbane.

While some watched in awe at nature's display from the comfort of their homes, others embraced the downpour, with one man captured doing breaststroke in Brisbane's Queen Street Mall.

2 mudslides kill four along Swiss-Italian border

Nina Larson
yahoo.com
Sun, 16 Nov 2014 16:01 UTC

At least four people were killed as landslides triggered by torrential rain slammed into houses and buildings on either side of the Swiss Italian border Sunday, police and media said.

In the rain-drenched southern Ticino region of Switzerland, two people died and four were injured when a mudslide slammed into a small residential building, regional police said.

On the other side of the border, a pensioner and his granddaughter were killed when another landslide engulfed a house on the Italian shores of Lake Maggiore, local media reported. Three other family members survived.

Those landslides were the latest of many to recently have hit northern Italy and southern Switzerland amid incessant rainfall over recent weeks.

Landslide kills two as storm death toll reaches 11 in Italy

thelocal.it
Sun, 16 Nov 2014 15:40 UTC

A landslide triggered by torrential rain engulfed a house on the shores of Italy's Lake Maggiore on Sunday, killing a pensioner and his granddaughter in what a neighbour described as a "horrific" tragedy.

The 70-year-old man died after the house was partially buried in a "sea of mud" unleashed after the hill behind the building gave way as a result of the unprecedented volumes of rainfall experienced across swaths of northern Italy in the last two weeks.

Rescue workers managed to drag the 16-year-old granddaughter from the rubble after more than four hours of digging but she died later in hospital.

Her parents and grandmother survived. The family's small, two-storey villa was the only property affected in Cerro, a hamlet on the outskirts of Laveno Mombello, a popular holiday spot.

Second 10-foot-wide sinkhole opens up in Florida next door to home where car was swallowed

Chris Pleasance
The Daily Mail, UK
Tue, 11 Nov 2014 17:25 UTC

A second sinkhole has opened in Pasco, Florida next door to the home where a car was swallowed after a 10-foot-wide crater opened in the ground on Monday.

Geologists have been called in to survey the hole which initially opened at a width of five-feet, but by mid-afternoon on Tuesday had expanded to the same size as the first depression. One resident has been evacuated bringing the total number of homes evacuated to seven after the first sinkhole developed outside the mobile home park and swallowed a black Hyundai.

The first hole was barely 4ft wide by 4ft deep when fire crews arrived at the mobile home in Holiday, Florida, at around 10.45am on Monday - but by 11 am it had grown to 10ft by 10ft.The family living at 1728 Torch St, where the hole opened up, have been told their house will be condemned - while five neighboring families were also evacuated.

The Red Cross was called to provide temporary shelter for the residents while experts assess the damage to their houses.

Heather Furlani, who arrived in Florida just last week with her husband and dog Coco, told WFLA she was given just minutes to leave. She said: 'I ran in and grabbed my purse and here I am. That's all I got - and my dog.' Because the hole is on private property it will be up to the home insurance company to fill in the hole and repair the building, according to a Pasco County Spokesman.

Comment: Expanding sinkhole in Florida swallows car in driveway, forces evacuations of 6 other homes

Expanding sinkhole in Florida swallows car in driveway, forces evacuations of 6 other homes

CS Monitor
Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:54 UTC

Six Tampa Bay-area families were evacuated from their homes after a car fell into a hole that developed in a driveway.

Pasco County officials say the hole that developed Monday in Holiday was 10 feet wide and 10 feet deep. County spokesman Doug Tobin says engineers had not confirmed that it was sinkhole.

Officials say the mobile home where the hole developed and five others nearby were evacuated as a safety precaution. No one was injured.

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Sinkholes

Sinkhole swallows 3 cars in Melbourne, Australia

Massive sinkhole opens up in Berkshire, England garden

2 men escape car moments before it topples into sinkhole, China

Woman falls into three metre deep sinkhole in Melbourne, Australia

Sinkhole opens up near old mine in Russia's Ural Mountains

Severe storms and flash flooding cause chaos in Brisbane

2 mudslides kill four along Swiss-Italian border

Landslide kills two as storm death toll reaches 11 in Italy

Second 10-foot-wide sinkhole opens up in Florida next door to home where car was swallowed

Expanding sinkhole in Florida swallows car in driveway, forces evacuations of 6 other homes

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