This is the second sinkhole within two days… And this eight-metre wide crater almost swallowed the front room of a Newcastle’s property in Australia.
On Tuesday night, a first giant sinkhole – 20m wide and 10m deep – just next to a million dollar home near Lake Macquarie. In both cases, houses remained intact. Is more land going to collapse? The area underneath the neighbourhood was once part of the Swansea Pit, a coal mine abandoned in the 1950s. It’s probably an old mine shaft that has caused the collapse. Scary!
Hopefully our Earth will stop moving over there soon! More pictures here.
Please step away from the sinkhole!