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Sinkholes

June 2024

  • A sinkhole forms on a soccer field in Illinois<br>A drone view shows a sinkhole that formed on a turf soccer field at Gordon Moore Park in Alton, Illinois, U.S., June 27, 2024.   REUTERS/Lawrence Bryant

    Sinkhole appears in soccer field above Illinois mine: ‘Out of a movie’

    No one was present when sinkhole, 100ft wide and 30ft deep, suddenly collapsed field in Alton, north of St Louis

March 2024

  • Drone vision shows sinkhole beneath Sydney building – video

    About 20 people were evacuated from a building in Rockdale, in the city's south, after it partially collapsed

September 2023

  • Sinkhole on a road in Eltham next to a postbox

    Sinkhole the size of a car appears on street in south-east London

    Greenwich council are investigating the cause of the hole after it appeared next to a taxi office in Eltham

August 2022

  • Chilean authorities are investigating a sinkhole about 25m (82 feet) in diameter that appeared in a mining area in the north of the country.

    Sinkhole 25 metres wide prompts investigation near Chilean copper mine

    Hole believed to be about 200m deep appeared close to Tierra Amarilla town, Copiapo province

July 2022

  • A fumarole sinkhole

    Australian tourist in serious condition after falling into thermal sinkhole in New Zealand

    The 2m-wide hole opened up suddenly on a footpath at Whakarewarewa tourist village in Rotorua, in central North Island

June 2022

  • Residents peer into huge sinkhole in south-east London – video

    A sinkhole spanning the breadth of a residential street has opened up in south-east London

May 2022

  • The tree-covered sinkhole in Leye County, Guangxi

    Ancient forest found at bottom of huge sinkhole in China

    Scientists believe site in Guangxi with trees up to 40 metres tall may contain undiscovered species

June 2021

  • Jerusalem sinkhole swallows up parked cars – video

    Jerusalem sinkhole swallows up parked cars – video

May 2021

  • Emergency services at the scene of the sinkhole in Via Zenodossio, in the Torpignattara district of Rome

    Latest sinkhole in street in Rome swallows vehicles

    Spate of road collapses blamed on Italian capital’s underground tunnels, sewers and ancient quarries

January 2021

  • Drone footage shows huge sinkhole in Naples hospital car park – video

    Vehicles fall into a giant sinkhole that opened up in the visitors' car park of a hospital in Naples

  • An aerial view of a the sinkhole in the Hospital by the Sea car park on the eastern outskirts of Naples, Italy.

    Giant sinkhole opens in hospital car park in Naples

    Nearby Italian residence for Covid-19 patients had to close temporarily because of electricity cuts
  • A member of a traffic team directs a lorry to Manston Airport,

    Ten-metre hole in Kent lorry park 'not a sinkhole', officials say

    Manston airport authorities say hole on runway is to be filled with concrete on Monday

January 2019

  • FBI and Pembroke Pines police investigate the tunnel.

    Florida sinkhole is tunnel leading to bank, says FBI

    Investigators examine tunnel containing boots and ladder near bank in Pembroke Pines

November 2018

  • Sinkhole swallows woman in China – video

    A woman is lucky to be alive after being swallowed whole by a sinkhole that opened up beneath her feet in Lanzhou City.

September 2018

  • Sinkhole opens up on Queensland beach – video

    A portion of a beach at Inskip Point, north of Brisbane, has collapsed into the ocean. Aerial vision from Rainbow Beach Helicopters shows a large hole where the sandy beach used to be.  

June 2018

  • Street damage from storm, in port of Acapulco, Mexico.

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    World weatherwatch: Mexico and Michigan suffer deluges as fires scorch Colorado

    In US states, floods, huge sinkholes and wildfires, while along Mexico’s south-west coast Storm Carlotta packs a punch

May 2018

  • Enormous sinkhole appears on New Zealand farm – video

    A huge sinkhole has opened up on a farm in Tumunui, New Zealand. A volcanologist says it is the biggest he has seen in the country, three times bigger than the previous largest. The gaping hole measures around 200m long and 20m deep and is expected to get bigger.

March 2018

  • A sinkhole in Rosenberg. There were nearly 297,000 oil wells in Texas as of last month, according to the state regulator.

    Texas sinkholes: oil and gas drilling increases threat, scientists warn

    Ground rising and falling in region that has been ‘punctured like a pin cushion’ since the 1940s, new study finds

August 2017

  • The sinkhole that has opened up beneath a driveway of a home in Wednesbury, in the West Midlands

    Home evacuated after sinkhole appears in West Midlands driveway

  • A large sinkhole in the Lake Padgett Estates community grew overnight, Friday, Aug. 4, 2017 in Land O' Lakes, Fla. Construction crews say some of the sides of the hole has collapsed making the movement of heavy machinery closer to the hole more dangerous.(Luis Santana Tampa Bay Times via AP)

    Florida sinkhole that swallowed two homes is growing, officials say

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