Sinkhole in Guatemala

[Irving]

This is pretty crazy. Probably the biggest one I've ever seen.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...world-science/

[theGinsue]

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?

[esaabye]

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]

that's impressive

[rondog]

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.

[jake]

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.

[SU405]

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.

[BigBear]

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.

[argonstrom]

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...

[clublights]

Tropical Moles....

They grow very big.

If it made *THAT* hole........


I think we are gunna need bigger guns............. much much bigger guns.