Sinkholes: May 2012 (Part I)
Updated on May 27
(May 16) Fourteen families were stranded Tuesday after the only bridge leading into their neighborhood in Wirtz, Franklin County, Virginia, was washed out by flash flooding late Monday night. Residents described hearing a rumble, similar to a freight train, but did not discover until later that it was the road washing away. (Source)
(May 16) The Utah Department of Transportation closed a portion of Washington Boulevard in Ogden for the next two days because of a sinkhole. (Source)
(May 15) A sinkhole that measures 20 feet deep and between 8 to 12 feet wide opened up on Hammonton Smartsville Road near Beale Air Force Base in Yuba County, California. (Source)
(May 13) The ground cracked in the middle of the night, sending terrifying people out of the house to find massive fissures opening up in Nakhon Si housing settlement in Thailand. (Source)
(May 13) A 25 foot by 15 foot sinkhole developed on a normally-busy street in La Puente in Los Angeles, California, as a result of a damaged water main. (Source)
(May 12) A large sink hole near 11958 SW 5 Ave.in the Jonesville area in Alachua County, Florida, has forced people in the immediate area to evacuate. The sinkhole — about 80 feet long and 40 feet wide and growing — was discovered about 8 a.m. Saturday, though the initial cave-in likely happened late Friday night. A 24-foot-long storage shed was on the verge of toppling into it, and the ground showed signs of giving way close to the swimming pool. (Source)
(May 11) Nearly 30 households in northern Quang Ninh Province’s Cam Pha City in Vietnam have been evacuated after a massive hole appeared in the residential area of Nam Son 2.(Source)
(May 11) A sport utility vehicle parked in a lot in North Conway Village in New Hampshire fell into a sinkhole on Friday morning. (Source)
(May 11) A sinkhole caused by a broken water main shut down a section of High Street Thursday night in Auburn, California. (Source)
(May 11) A section of U.S. Route 40 in Pilesgrove Township, New Jersey, has reopened to traffic after emergency repairs for a sinkhole on the heavily-traveled roadway. (Source)
(May 10) A city engineer says an expanding sinkhole on Washington Avenue in Kingston, New York, is threatening underground pipes — including gas, water and sewer lines — and could cost a million dollars to repair. (Source)
(May 8) The District of Columbia will receive $3 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation to help pay for repairing a sinkhole on Interstate 65 in Morgan County. (Source)
(May 6) A seven foot-deep sinkhole off Hogarth Avenue in Flint Township, Michigan, has grown larger over the years. (Source)
(May 4) An excavator fell into a sinkhole when the sidewalk in front of Jinshan Hotel collapsed. This happened in Shenyang, the capital and largest city of Liaoning Province in Northeast China. (Source)
(May 3) After heavy rain, a massive sinkhole appeared in Yuzhong County in China’s northwest province of Gansu. (Source)
Sinkholes in China: May 2012
Sinkholes in China: April 2012
(May 3) A sinkhole nearly swallowed a car this morning near an office complex in Cottonwood Heights in Utah, exposing a 2-inch natural gas pipeline. If that car had driven into that hole, it could have been a huge, potentially fatal, mess. (Source)
(May 3) Flash flooding in Calumet County in Wisconsin, turned creeks into fast-moving rivers. A part of Cemetery Rd. near Forest Junction could not stand up to the muddy waters and washed way. The giant sinkhole nearly swallowed a man and his truck. (Source)
(May 3) The hole opened up on Old Orchard Ave. south of Sherbrooke St. in Montreal. (Source)
(May 3) A massive sinkhole is spreading toward homes in the Windermere area in Orlando, Florida. Officials said the circumference of the sinkhole measures about 50 feet and 30 feet from a home off Indian Deer Road. (Source)
(May 2) In Statesvile, North Carolina, a business road is falling apart with a massive sinkhole and the people who travel on it every day are being told that there’s nothing anyone can do to help them. (Source)
(May 2) Long-awaited repairs on the massive sinkhole in Richmond, Silicon Valley in California, are about to begin, two years after a long section of roadway collapsed and enveloped two cars in a crater 40 feet wide, 120 feet long and 30 feet deep. The project is expected to take eight months. (Source)
(May 1) A large sinkhole, 15 feet wide and six feet deep, has been patched up after a water main burst and sent a geyser shooting out on Glen Drive in Huntington Beach in Orange County, California. (Source)
(May 1) A massive sinkhole, 5 meters in diameter and 30 meter deep, appeared suddenly in the town of Erzincan Doruksaray in İliç district of Turkey. (Source) On New Year’s Day, a massive sinkhole, about 30 meter deep and 15 meter wide, appeared overnight in the city of Zonguldak in Gelik district in Turkey. (Source)
Sinkholes: April 2012
Sinkholes increasing: The earth continues to shift and crack
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