View Full Version : Sinkhole in Guatemala
This is pretty crazy. Probably the biggest one I've ever seen.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/06/100601-sinkhole-in-guatemala-2010-world-science/
http://s.ngeo.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/211/cache/guatemala-city-sinkhole_21110_600x450.jpg
theGinsue
06-02-2010, 13:32
I saw this from work yesterday and thought about posting about it.
That hole is absolutely amazing. It appears to be almost perfectly round and looks smooth enough to have been bored out with a super-sized post hole digger.
What is really cool is that is looks like the earth's crust is a few hundred feet thick and then there is nothing below it but sdarkness.
Supposedly a business and a home were lost in that sinkhole - is that what everyone else is hearing?
I saw this from work yesterday and thought about posting about it.
That hole is absolutely amazing. It appears to be almost perfectly round and looks smooth enough to have been bored out with a super-sized post hole digger.
What is really cool is that is looks like the earth's crust is a few hundred feet thick and then there is nothing below it but sdarkness.
Supposedly a business and a home were lost in that sinkhole - is that what everyone else is hearing?
Tropical Moles....
They grow very big.
cowboykjohnson
06-02-2010, 13:42
that's impressive
Story says it ate a 3-story building, but it must have been a small one. Looks like most of the hole is under the streets and intersection. Fawk of a hole though! Gonna take a lot of dump trucks to fill that one up. Good place to dump earthquake and hurricane debris.
Can you imagine taking a stroll down this portion of the street when that thing caved? Kind of like that old biblical bs being swallowed up by the earth and all that jazz,lol.
Would definitely be interesting to send a few goelogists and other folks down there and check 'er out.
Science has proven a lot of the "Bible BS" btw.... but that is a discussion not for this thread.
clublights
06-02-2010, 14:23
Tropical Moles....
They grow very big.
If it made *THAT* hole........
I think we are gunna need bigger guns............. much much bigger guns.
Story says it ate a 3-story building, but it must have been a small one. Looks like most of the hole is under the streets and intersection.
The upper left-hand quadrant of the hole looks to be where the building was. It took it out really neatly though, and apparently only one fatality.
when I first saw this I thought it was a photoshop.
when I first saw this I thought it was a photoshop.
Me too, or one of those 3d chalk art things.
bellavite1
06-02-2010, 17:03
Me too, or one of those 3d chalk art things.
Reminds me of a couple of chicks I used to know...[Coffee]
Reminds me of a couple of chicks I used to know...[Coffee]
Oh they must have been Civil Engineers.
patrick0685
06-02-2010, 17:12
If it made *THAT* hole........
I think we are gunna need bigger guns............. much much bigger guns.
i always need bigger guns[UZI]
actually I believe the hole was made by the infamous tremor....[Coffee]
one hell of hole, looks so round and perfect it almost appears fake
Reminds me of a couple of chicks I used to know...[Coffee]
like a 5 gallon bucket...[Help]
I wonder how many volunteers they've had to be lowered down in there by a crane, to check it out and video, etc. Ain't gonna be me.
theGinsue
06-02-2010, 22:55
when I first saw this I thought it was a photoshop.
Me too, or one of those 3d chalk art things.
Yup, me too! Funny, twenty years ago we would have been in awe but taken it at face value.
argonstrom
06-02-2010, 23:28
Can you imagine taking a stroll down this portion of the street when that thing caved?
I'd just dump my camping gear, cry, and think about happier times...
Oh, wait...
;)
Crazy, that hole is wild. A perfect circle? Creepy man.[Coffee]
I'd just dump my camping gear, cry, and think about happier times...
Oh, wait...
;)
[ROFL1]
[Beer]
theGinsue
06-03-2010, 09:00
Crazy, that hole is wild. A perfect circle? Creepy man.[Coffee]
I love how the corner of that one building (9 o'clock - 10:30 in the pic) is hanging over the hole. I'm guessing the occupant of that office left a brown mark in their pants.
Every time this happens, no one ever goes down there with a camera and some lights and it pisses me off. At least drop a road flare down there or something.
All the sinkholes lead to DIA so anyone who goes down them ends up toiling in the lizards' underground factories.
That sink hole looks like it leads straight to China.
Every time this happens, no one ever goes down there with a camera and some lights and it pisses me off. At least drop a road flare down there or something.
I know. I said this would be a geologists dream.... Time to go spelunking.
Who wants to rappel in first?
I think we are gunna need bigger guns............. much much bigger guns.
Rutger Hauer?
That sink hole looks like it leads straight to China.
It doesn't, it comes up in the Indian Ocean. Every time I have tried, the holes always come up in the ocean.
That is one thing that a globe has over Google maps.
http://www.ubasics.com/dighole/
here in CO we'd end up in the middle of the indian ocean.
same with guatemala
Spain to New Zeland = cool
http://www.ubasics.com/dighole/
I was going to search for this link after Stuart's comment about a Globe being better than Google Earth for this reason ;)
If you could build a perfectly straight tunnel through the earth between any two points, and use a train to travel through the tunnel that has zero friction, it would take 42 minutes to get to any point on earth. Your rate of speed would be determined by gravitational pull, and gravity would also decelerate you to arrive at the exact same spot ASL. In theory, anyway.
In 1966, mathematician Paul Cooper (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul_Cooper_%28mathematician%29&action=edit&redlink=1) theorized that the fastest, most efficient way to travel across continents would be to bore a straight hollow tube directly through the Earth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth), connecting a set of antipodes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipodes), evacuate it (remove the air), and then just fall through. The first half of the journey consists of free-fall acceleration, while the second half consists of an exactly equal deceleration. The time for such a journey works out to be 42 minutes. Remarkably, even if the tube does not pass through the exact center of the Earth, the time for a journey powered entirely by gravity always works out to be 42 minutes, as long as the tube remains friction-free, as while gravity's force would be lessened, so would the distance traveled at an equal rate.[5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_%28number%29#cite_note-4)[6] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_%28number%29#cite_note-5) The same idea was proposed by Lewis Carroll (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll) in Sylvie and Bruno (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvie_and_Bruno), volume 2, chapter 7, without calculation.
Certainly a Big ass hole.
Kewl, so if I lived just south of Prince Albert National Park in Sasquatch, Canada and fell through the earth... I'd have my very own island! lol
patrick0685
06-03-2010, 16:03
has anyone heard how big it is yet? i wanna explore[Beer]
I never see follow ups on these sink holes. Probably because third world countries have better crap to do than looking around in holes. heh.
I never see follow ups on these sink holes. Probably because third world countries have better crap to do than looking around in holes. heh.
yeah they usually live in em so exploring has no merits.
theGinsue
06-03-2010, 16:18
I know. I said this would be a geologists dream.... Time to go spelunking.
Spelunking? Does it still count as slelunking if the "cave" is big enough to play a game of baseball in it?
http://www.ubasics.com/dighole/
here in CO we'd end up in the middle of the indian ocean.
same with guatemala
The Indian Ocean is bigger than I though it was.
has anyone heard how big it is yet? i wanna explore[Beer]
Last I heard, it's somewhere in the 300ft deep area.
One guy tried bungee jumping into it, and found it a rather frightening experience.
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b150/rinselman/funnies/bungeejumper.jpg
yeah they usually live in em so exploring has no merits.
LOL. I bet Osama Bin Laden is in the sink hole.
Theory is that they are like black holes, jump in and who knows where you will end up.
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