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MICHIGAN, United States (AFP) — A giant sinkhole formed underneath a house in Fraser, Michigan on Saturday (December 24) forcing families to interrupt their Holiday plans and evacuate the neighborhood. Signs of damage could be seen to the bottom half of the house’s exterior brick wall as the house slowly settled into the hollow ground underneath its foundation. “The bricks fall from the side of the house. We saw the separation at the front of […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A Japanese city on Tuesday reopened a busy street that collapsed into a giant sinkhole, with the efforts of workers who toiled around the clock for a week drawing praise on social media. The gigantic sinkhole, measuring around 30 metres (98 feet) wide and 15 metres deep, appeared last Tuesday in a bustling business district in the southwestern city of Fukuoka, swallowing part of a five-lane street. The sinkhole, apparently triggered […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — A massive sinkhole opened up Wednesday on a busy road in the heart of Ottawa, forcing the evacuation of a nearby hotel, convention center and major shopping center in the Canadian capital city. No injuries were reported but a parked van and a lamp post were swallowed up as the hole quickly grew in size, stretching the width of the four-lane road. Authorities pointed to a watermain break as the likely […]
CCTV footage shows an officer noticing cracks forming in the middle of the road. He then decides to divert traffic around the cracks by cordoning off the area using cones. Minutes later, the road collapses!
GENERAL SANTOS CITY, PIA – Geologists from the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) 12 on Monday (March 2) conducted a site inspection at Purok Tinago, Barangay Dadiangas South in General Santos City, where a suspected sinkhole was earlier reported. For the second time, the MGB 12 team clarifies that “it’s not sinkhole but possibly coastal erosion.” The team had conducted initial site assessment on February 16, a day after residents in the area reported a […]
