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Great photos
100m deep. Swallowed 1-2 homes. 2-3 people missing. What is really bizarre to me is how well defined this hole is. Most sink holes that I've seen looked more like a dimple that just kept getting bigger and deeper. This looks like someone took a core sample of the earth that was 300+ feet deep.

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Yeah, I saw that. 330 feet deep is amazing -- think football field length, only down!

Horrible. Those poor people.

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It's called building over a cave. Happens in PA all the time- people build over old mines.

perhaps, but how often does it create a nearly perfectly cylindrical hole perpendicular to the surface that is 100m deep? I saw a large stretch of I-80 do that in Ohio once but it dropped about 3 feet and covered a long stretch of the road. This is a concentrated depression. pretty weird if you ask me.

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WHOA, yeah that's not right. Karst sinkholes don't usually do that. Most certainly caused in a large part by man.

Day-um!

I laughed at the two guys looking over the edge.

Holy crap.

sorry, i just couldn't resist:



those pix are unreal.

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that's just sick and wrong.....but dayum funny.

CB is off his meds again.

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"Who's more foolish - the fool or the fool that follows him?" - Obi Wan Kenobi

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It's called building over a cave. Happens in PA all the time- people build over old mines.

cbelt3 is right - it looks like it was a dome (a huge one) which turned into a pit when it's roof collapsed.

Guatemala has possibly one of the longest cave systems in Central America (Candelaria Caves) which is 22km long & the largest chamber is 200m long, 200m wide, and 60m high at some points.

And just for comparison, the deepest cave entrance pit in the world is 410m deep (in Mexico) while the deepest underground drop is 513m (in Croatia).

It's just sad that people lost their lives.

Uh oh. I saw a hole like that in War of the Worlds. We're all doomed!

p.s. incognegro, that pic is too funny!

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sorry, i just couldn't resist:



those pix are unreal.

I never though that I'd see the Earth imitating Goat.se.

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First thing I thought seeing the pics and reading the story-"wow, the earth grew an *$$hole".
But, I wouldn't have thought of, well, 'ripping' (or whatever you call it) a hole.
LOL, incog.

There are supposedly even bigger sinkholes around the world.
Amazing geological calamities.

Actually, the stratification layers in the Guatemala hole are interesting.

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sorry, i just couldn't resist:



those pix are unreal.

I never though that I'd see the Earth imitating Goat.se.

only here my friend, only here.

The fact that a number of us actually got it is even more frightening.....