Sinkhole

Residents of 14 ocean-view homes on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast have been ordered to leave after an engineering report found that nearby sinkholes are putting them at risk.As of 1 p.m. Friday, District of...

Normally, rivers flow horizontally. Now the water of this river in Babadan Village, Indonesia disappears in a deep sinkhole underground, drying up the stream. Very disturbing, isn't it?

Tehran is sinking... And now gigantic holes as deep as 60 meters (197 feet) are appearing in western Iran. And that's not because of missiles or meteors... No, no! They are the...

Residents of Quebrada Las Cañas, Chile, were left terrified after a giant 11 meters in diameter and 17 meters deep sinkhole opened up following the M6.7 earthquake of last weekend. The gigantic crater swallowed...

A giant 30 meters wide and 15 meters deep sinkhole has swallowed up part of the four-lane Jl. Raya Gubeng in Surabaya, East Java, on Tuesday night. This is another dramatic event...

The ground is shifting under Iran's capital, Tehran, home to approximately 15 million people and the biggest city by population in western Asia. High-resolution satellite images recently revealed that in some places, the metropolis...

Two women were slightly injured after a sidewalk collapsed underneath them on Wednesday, October 24, 2018, in Diyarbakır, Turkey. OMG! That was terrifying! Follow us: Facebook and Twitter or become a Patron on Patreon / donate through Paypal. Please and thank you.

Parts of a road cracked and a cave-in occurred at around 2:30 am in Dazhou City, southwest China's Sichuan Province on Sunday. Two passerby was killed and three are still missing. A second collapse occurred...

Cracked gas chambers in the seabed south of Svalbard could blow out and create craters that are up to 30 metres deep, say scientists... Exactly as in Siberia recently! Researchers have found more than 100...

Brandon Post was working outside his home in Montfort when the earth collapsed beneath his feet. "I just started screaming, 'Somebody help me! Somebody help me!' It was the only thing I could do...

Nearly 100 children were evacuated from their classrooms on September 24, 2018 when a huge sinkhole opened up at Drumgossatt National School, near Carrickmacross in Monaghan, Ireland. The collapse of a disused Gypsum mine in...

A huge part of an Australian beach disappeared overnight (23-24 September, 2018). And experts say such 900 feet wide and 25 feet deep sinkholes will happen again since erosion will never stop in the...

Two Florida families are homeless after a 20-foot deep, 40-foot wide sinkhole opened up between their houses on Wednesday. No one was inside either house. According to officials, no other homes are threatened. Sinkholes...

From gopher hole to large pond: Officials have called in some high-tech equipment to Oxford to determine how big a massive sinkhole is likely to get. The sinkhole is expanding toward a road a...

Since Sunday evening, the Laguna de Chakanbacán, located in Quintana Roo, Mexico is being drained by large sinkholes, killing a high number of fish, turtles, swamp crocodiles and eels, among other species. The sinkholes...

Tungnafellsjökull central volcano has not have recorded historical activity, but is considered an active volcano that has erupted during the past 10,000 year, mainly from flank fissures on the NE side where young basaltic...

This huge crater opened up in the middle of a field creating a 30 meters wide and a 50 meters deep hole in the ground near the village of Neledino in Nizhny Novgorod region....

An elderly man was suddenly swallowed by a sinkhole that appeared with no warning beneath his feet. Luckily, several bystanders witnessed the event and quickly rushed to his aid, pulling him to safety. This video...

Terrifying footage has emerged of the moment a fifty-metre section of a major road collapses in the city of Guang'an in Sichuan province, south-west China. The street can be seen buckling and crumbling on...

A kayaker bypassed a part of an Arkansas scenic river known as Dead Man's Curve during a weekend trip, but a rare sinkhole created a whirlpool along his alternate channel and dragged him to...

Reporters spotted a sinkhole on the North Lawn of the White House that is believed to be still growing, since it first formed over the weekend after days of heavy rainfall. A sinkhole has formed...

Four sinkholes have opened up in a fast-growing retirement community, The Villages, in Florida, including one in front of a home that was abandoned months ago because of an earlier sinkhole. The new sinkholes...

A metro bus fell into a 10-foot deep sinkhole in Multan, Pakistan, on May 12, 2018. It's kind of ironic. A day before, officials had discussed about the very good quality of the ongoing...

A giant crack measuring more than 400 meters long and 4 meters deep opened up at the border between Tláhuac and Milpa Alta, two of the 16 boroughs of Mexico city, Mexico on May...

The sinkholes began appearing around pond in Wynchase, Ocala on the night of April 25, 2018, but have continued forming over the last two weeks. Now they are 12 huge craters... And they are...

Look at this! It's very impressive! A massive growing sinkhole, which runs along a fault-line at a Tumunui farm, is about 200 metres long, 20 metres wide and 20 metres deep. The huge crater...

It began with sinkholes. Two of them, gaping mouths to nowhere opening up as if to swallow the town of Wink, Texas. As they expanded, there were fears they might collide, morphing into one...

This sailor was dramatically plucked to safety after a giant 100ft wide sinkhole opened up in the middle of the Shropshire Union canal in Middlewich, Cheshire just feet from his boat. The crater opened...

Crazy pictures have emerged following the collapse of a road in northwestern Rome, creating a sinkhole which has swallowed up eight cars at around 6pm this evening on February 14, 2018. The cars swallowed...

A sinkhole in Williamson County, Texas is exposing a 22-foot-deep and 170-foot-long cavern, which reaches underneath three homes in the Brushy Creek neighborhood. The hole opened up Thursday morning in the 8400 block of...

This sinkhole is just incredibly long and opened up overnight in the middle of a neighborhood road in Fairfax, Virginia on February 9, 2018. I would start praying for my house if I was...

In China, eight people have died and three more are missing after a major road collapsed on a subway construction site in Guangdong province, killing at least 8 workers and with 3 still missing....

Around noon on Friday a giant 30 x 30 feet sinkhole formed outside one of the rowhomes in Fishtown, Philadelphia. Tons of rats were flying out of the hole. Six homes were evacuated. Follow us: Facebook and Twitter via...

Mexico is used to huge craters. But on January 17, 2018, drivers using the Torreón - Saltillo highway were left baffled by a deep smoking hole in the ground that was burning from the...

Three people escaped death when their car plunged into a giant, 70-meter-long sinkhole and 15-meter-deep sinkhole that swallowed up half of the road they were driving on near Mersing, Malaysia. The cave-in occurred at...

There are at least 49 massive sinkholes scattered in a 200-km karst area in NW China's Shaanxi. Such a high density of sinkholes is rarely seen, making this region one of the world's largest...

We've all seen the astonishing images on social media of giant chasms that suddenly appear out of nowhere. But these freak abominations can happen just about anywhere and at any time, without warning or...

Farmers in Coromandel in Alto Paranaíba, Brazil were surprised by a giant crater, measuring more than 20 meters in diameter, that appeared without notice in one of their soybean plantation between Nov. 5th and...

The Sakantsy forest lake in the Vladimir region suddenly disappeared overnight after being drained by a giant sinkhole. The 20-meter-deep reservoir and all its fish were swallowed up within hours by a giant crater. On October...

Dennis Love of Apple Valley says he was just walking across the front yard when it happened. A sinkhole that was more than 15-feet deep, just opened up under his feet, swallowing him, a few...