30 cases when the earth opened up (31 photos)

In recent years, news of failures has appeared in one part of the world or another. It seems that the earth is already finding it difficult to bear the weight of human buildings, factories, factories, and road surfaces. Here are just a few examples of how the ground suddenly opened up under people’s feet.





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A road collapses after a storm near the village of Palo Blanco on the Spanish island of Tenerife on November 23, 2009.

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Local residents inspect a road that collapsed during flooding in Toowoombooa, a town west of Brisbane, on January 10, 2001.

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This sinkhole was caused by a water main break in Chicago, Illinois on April 18, 2013.

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Rescuers carry out the body of a victim who died in a road collapse in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China, 21 May 2013.

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On January 28, 2013, equipment digs a crater measuring about 100 square meters in area and about 10 meters in depth.

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This hole formed overnight in Beijing on April 26, 2011.

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In the summer of 2012, a large sinkhole opened up on East Monument Street in Baltimore.

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Summer Bay Inn in Claremont, Florida, August 12, 2013. Guests had only 10 to 15 minutes to escape the collapsing building.

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A car with two occupants fell into a sinkhole in Baltimore on April 28, 2004.

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A woman looks into a 3-by-3-meter hole that opened in her driveway in March 2003.

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A car that fell into a large sinkhole in Minnesota. June 20, 2011

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A helicopter flies over a crater 36 meters wide and 54 meters deep in New Wales, June 29, 1994.

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Cars sit in a sinkhole caused by the collapse of a road into an underground cave system in the southern Italian city of Gallipoli, March 30, 2007.

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March 12, 2008 This failure was caused by a storm that sank many boats and caused significant damage to communities in the Bay of Biscay region.

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Passers-by look at a collapsed section of Shunwai Road in Nanchang, China's Jiangxi province, April 25, 2007.

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A sinkhole near Qingquan Primary School in Dachengqiao city, Ningxiang province, June 15, 2010.

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A crater that Libyan authorities say was caused by coalition airstrikes is seen near the Bab al-Aziziya complex in Tripoli on May 12, 2011.

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A truck falls into a sinkhole after part of a bridge structure collapses into a river in Changchun, Jilin province, 29 May 2011.

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Collapse of a section of road in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Southern Poland, on December 19, 2012, resulting in a crater measuring 10 meters deep and 40 meters wide.

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Rescuers use a crane to pull a bus out of a sinkhole in Lisbon, November 25, 2003.

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A firefighter stands next to a fresh sinkhole in Taiyuan, Shanxi, December 26, 2012.

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People stand near a sinkhole in Fukou county, Hunan province, January 12, 2013.

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Debris of a residential building and a destroyed road in the village of Nachterstedt, where a huge sinkhole formed on July 18, 2009. Three residents are still missing.

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A sinkhole blocked an exit on Interstate 15 in San Diego on February 24, 1998.

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A tsunami struck Nagapattinam, a city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, on December 27, 2004, causing numerous sinkholes.

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Workers repair a sinkhole in a road in Xi'an, Shaanxi, May 27, 2012.

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Police officers inspect a sinkhole in Hefei, Anhui, August 8, 2009.

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A car is lifted from a crater in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, September 7, 2008.

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Rescue workers on the road in Ludi, Hunan province, June 18, 2013. The road surface subsided after a truck drove over it.

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A tanker truck falls into a sinkhole on a road in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, July 27, 2013.