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by Claire GOUNON EIN GEDI, Israel (AFP) — In the heyday of the Ein Gedi spa in the 1960s, holidaymakers could marinate in heated pools and then slip into the briny Dead Sea. Now the same beach is punctured by craters. A spectacular expanse of water in the desert, flanked by cliffs to east and west, the Dead Sea has lost a third of its surface area since 1960. The blue water recedes about a […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — The death toll from the collapse of an apartment building in Florida has risen to 64, officials said Thursday, with 76 people still missing and presumed dead. Miami-Dade county mayor Daniella Levine Cava gave the new toll Thursday afternoon, admitting that reporting the numbers “has not gotten any easier” two weeks after the tragedy. Champlain Towers South, a 12-storey building in Surfside, a town north of Miami Beach, came […]
PUEBLA, Mexico (AFP) — A giant sinkhole that was expanding by dozens of meters each day has alarmed residents in a rural area of central Mexico where it was threatening to swallow a house. When the Sanchez family heard a loud crash on Saturday they first thought that it was a lightning strike. But they soon discovered that the ground had collapsed just meters from their home in a field in Santa Maria Zacatepec in […]
by Raziye Akkoc KARAPINAR, Turkey (AFP) — Sinkholes wide enough to swallow a bus dot the drought-stricken breadbasket of the Turkish plains, worrying farmers as they spread and creep closer to residential homes. “The drought situation is getting worse,” said farmer Tahsin Gundogdu, whose harvest includes potatoes he sells to the US food giant PepsiCo. The 57-year-old has seen the huge holes yawn open in the past 10 to 15 years as the overuse of […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — An enormous sinkhole swallowed a bus and pedestrians in China, sparking an explosion, killing six people and leaving 10 more missing, state media said Tuesday. Footage showed people at a bus stop running from the collapsing road, as the bus — jutting into the air — sank halfway into the ground. Several people disappeared into the sinkhole as it spread, including what appeared to be a child. The incident, outside a […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Road workers in Florida sent out to repair a sinkhole got a surprise this week when they discovered it was caused by a tunnel leading to a nearby bank. The FBI posted pictures of the narrow underground tunnel leading to a branch of Chase Bank in Pembroke Pines, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Miami. Police and the FBI were called in Tuesday night after the road workers realized […]
BEIHAI, GUANGXI PROVINCE, China (CCTV) — A motorist in the Southern Chinese city of Beihai had a narrow escape after plunging into a sinkhole on Thursday (August 17). The man, who was using his mobile phone, failed to notice the giant hole in the ground as he sped towards it. He emerged from the scene unharmed, state broadcaster CCTV said.
FLORIDA, United States (Reuters) — The number of homes to be condemned as a result of a massive sinkhole in a residential neighborhood of Land O’ Lakes, Florida, has risen to seven, officials told reporters on Monday (August 7). The sinkhole originally opened up on July 14 and grew dangerously hundreds of feet within a matter of hours, Florida officials initially said, before it stopped increasing in size the following day. Two homes were initially […]
FLORIDA, United States (Reuters) — A sinkhole appeared on a road directly in front of United States President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. Repair crews, on Monday (May 22) put up barricades around the small hole that measured about four feet by four feet (1.2 x 1.2 meters), local media reported. City workers believe the sinkhole formed near a newly-installed water main and will conduct an exploratory excavation later in the day. Trump, […]
SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) — A sinkhole has opened up near Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s home in the exclusive Sydney suburb of Point Piper on Wednesday (February 8). Sydney suffered heavy rain on Tuesday (February 7) with reports of flash flooding in its eastern suburbs. According to local media, police were called after reports that the sinkhole had appeared on Wednesday morning. The street was then cordoned off with the sinkhole less than a kilometer […]
(Eagle News) — A mysterious sinkhole was discovered in Cauayan City National High School in Isabela. The sinkhole was found by a security guard, two weeks after the continuous rainfall in the area. According to Schools Division Supt. Jessie Amin of the Department of Education-Cauayan City, the estimated depth of the sinkhole is at least seven meters. Amin also said that they had already informed the Department of National Resources and the Department of Public […]
GEORGIA, United States (Reuters) — According to local media, traffic was blocked as the 55,000-pound (25,000KG) truck’s rear cargo container fell in a sinkhole near a highway close to Gainesville, in Hall County, Georgia, on Tuesday (January 17). The truck was carrying 1,600 gallons (60,500 liters) of water, the Hall fire spokesman told local media. An active fuel leak was reported to the Georgia Environmental Protection Division that was called in the handle the situation […]
