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Here's some recent global infrastructure news from Thuringia, Germany: a 30-meter wide, 25-meter deep sinkhole recently opened up in an unsuspecting neighborhood to swallow up some property. In this case, the only losses were a car, some road, and a driveway and garage door.
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- Sinkhole Brought 60 Percent More Visitors To Corvette Museum, Will Be Preserved
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- Damn; Sinkhole Eats Up Eight Cars At National Corvette Museum
Yes, you read that right; a giant sinkhole measuring some 40 feet (~12 meters) wide and around 30 feet (9 meters) deep that appeared beneath a section of the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky on Wednesday swallowed eight cars on display, including...
- Woman Gets Trapped In A Kia Rio Swallowed By A Sinkhole In New Hampshire
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- Video: Gigantic Sinkhole Cuts Through Road In Guatemala City
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30-Meter Wide Sinkhole Opens up and Swallows Car in Germany (with Post-Event Video)
Here's some recent global infrastructure news from Thuringia, Germany: a 30-meter wide, 25-meter deep sinkhole recently opened up in an unsuspecting neighborhood to swallow up some property. In this case, the only losses were a car, some road, and a driveway and garage door.
The sinkhole, which is one of the largest ones to form in Thuringia, is suspected to be the result of "a salt column, calcium sulphate or limestone [dissolving]". According to reports, the region averages twenty smaller sinkholes a year.
- Sinkhole Suddenly Swallows Concrete Mixer
A Russian truck driver's daily ride to work took an abrupt turn for the worse when a sinkhole opened up beneath the road. Read more »...
- Sinkhole Brought 60 Percent More Visitors To Corvette Museum, Will Be Preserved
Ironically, the massive sinkhole that swallowed eight Corvettes at the National Corvette Museum has become the main attraction of the Bowling Green, Kentucky gallery. Officials were so impressed with the rise in visitors the museum saw after the event...
- Damn; Sinkhole Eats Up Eight Cars At National Corvette Museum
Yes, you read that right; a giant sinkhole measuring some 40 feet (~12 meters) wide and around 30 feet (9 meters) deep that appeared beneath a section of the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky on Wednesday swallowed eight cars on display, including...
- Woman Gets Trapped In A Kia Rio Swallowed By A Sinkhole In New Hampshire
It's a pretty scary situation if you think about it; while you're driving in the middle of a city street, the road suddenly opens and swallows up your car leaving you trapped inside with water pumping out from the ground around you. But that's...
- Video: Gigantic Sinkhole Cuts Through Road In Guatemala City
By now, you've probably heard about the massive sinkhole that opened without warning at a street intersection in Guatemala City swallowing an entire three-story (!) building, but here's a couple of videos from the site of the collapse. Scientists...