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Sinkholes


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By Mr - 28 Mar 2013 10:47 AM

Another media scaremongering campaign?

Or the end of the world?

Discuss.
By BETHFC - 29 Mar 2013 8:14 PM

afromanGT wrote:
benelsmore wrote:
From experience, large sink holes like in that photo (which is fake due its shape) will give many warning signs

Actually, it's real. Google "Guatemala Sink Hole".


Really? I'm genuinely surprised by that given its shape. The shape is almost conical which I would not expect as I would have thought slumping within the sink hole would occur within soils and more weathered rock which would make it uneven and form caves.

I googled it and you're right. It's formation though is synonymous with what I have been saying. Rising groundwater in limestone rock formations and issues with leaking pipes.

Given where it is i'm sure their roads are shite anyway so my suggestion that warning signs would show in the pavement may not have been so obvious.