Sinkholes
The road surface caved in on 11th August during heavy rains in Yan'an city, China.
The hole - measuring at least 5 metres in depth - opened up right behind the white people carrier, with footage shows rain and muddy groundwater sloshing around inside during the downpour.
Beijing authorities temporarily closed 168 different natural and architectural tourist sites near the Chinese capital in expectation of strong downpours, according to the capital's tourism committee.
Weather forecasters expect that up to 300 millimeters of precipitation will occur in the next 24 hours in some areas of Beijing and its neighboring provinces.

A sinkhole that consumed a significant part of a suburban road was discovered by two teenagers who noticed a water broken water pipe
The two 13-year-olds were cycling down the suburban street in Taupo, near the centre of New Zealand's North island, when they noticed a fence began to sink into the ground.
Jono Park rang emergency services, while Bailey Malloy went to alert neighbours that were located directly near the sinkhole.
The boys then immediately moved their bikes to safer ground and rang their parents.
Jono's mother, Anna Park, a Taupo District Councillor, quickly relayed the information to the council team.
Measuring half of the width of the H&M shop, the sinkhole trapped the cars that inside it that emergency services worked hard to fish out when the incident happened on Thursday afternoon.
Gas lines were located directly under the sinkhole sparking fears of a leak or even an explosion should it mix with petrol from the vehicles.
Lafayette Fire Company took to Twitter to urge customers to avoid the area.

Crews rescued a driver after his truck was swallowed up by a sinkhole in the water main break.
In the video, the driver can be seen driving his truck into the water that obscured the sinkhole. The truck immediately sinks as the driver quickly climbed out the passenger window.
According to a tweet from WFXT, the man was rescued shortly after the incident.
A large swath of Worcester's Greendale neighborhood was still flooded after the water main break Tuesday afternoon.
Worcester Emergency Management asked residents to avoid that part of the city after the water main break.

A car was partly swallowed by a sinkhole caused by a watermain break in Toronto's Weston neighbourhood on Aug. 7, 2018.
Toronto police say they were first alerted to a watermain break on Pine Street, just south of Lawrence Avenue, at around 4 a.m.
A few hours later, police say they received calls from concerned residents who said the water rushing from the watermain break had created a sinkhole.
Though it's not clear when the car drove into the hole, police say it has since been removed with the help of Toronto Fire Services.
The three people in the cars emerged unscathed from the 8 square metre (86 square foot) hole in the road in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, news portal My399.com reported on Saturday.
The vehicles plunged into the hole one after the other.
A lake has completely disappeared in Arctic Russia in July 2018. via Facebook
Researchers report of their Facebook Page:
"We are not talking here about a small lake near the sea shore, which, for example, can break through the channel and drain into the sea, but about the large and deep lake Usacheva, that is at least 3 kilometers long, and a few kilometers distant from the sea. [...] The guys walked on the dried bottom of the lake for more than one and a half kilometers, and as shown in the photographs, it's a continuous clay desert, covered with a grid of cracks and fissures from erosion [...] "
Comment: In addition a Facebook comment noted the following (translated by Google):
I will also specify - here I collected a series of photos from 2016-2018, judging by which the main descent of the lake was in 2016, and then it was partially filled by July 2017Similar examples of baffling changes to bodies of water have been documented all over the world:
- Earth changes: Enormous new river in central Argentina was literally born overnight
- Quake in Costa Rica Causes River to Disappear
- Venice water levels lowest since records began - and it's sinking (PHOTOS)
- Scientists baffled by relentless rise of two Caribbean lakes
- New island forms off northwest England
- 'Sinking' Pacific Island is actually growing
The hole along the shoulder is near the intersection of Biesecker Road in Thomasville. PennDOT said it was caused by water runoff.
Crews are working on repairs..
Traffic cones are set up to keep vehicles away.
While information in English is scarce at this early time, one report speculates the cause could be due to to water erosion of the soil or rock below.
It remains to be seen what the true cause of this particular sinkhole is but a hole of this size is not normal and to attribute its appearance solely to water erosion is most likely misleading. Because with volcanoes, earthquakes, sinkholes, fissures, landslides and a variety of other unusual and major earth movement phenomena on the increase, it would seem there are other factors at play not yet being considered.
Comment: While some areas of the world suffer extreme drought, other areas are inundated with epic flooding, and as if that wasn't enough, sinkhole, earthquake and volcanic events are on the rise too: