An anonymous reader recently alerted me to the remarkable sinkhole that opened up in the middle of Guatemala City on Sunday. (Thanks, Anonymous!) It's sixty feet across. And THIRTY STORIES DEEP. And it could get bigger! I've posted about this kind of phenomenon before, but the National Geographic's pictures of the latest sinkhole are absolutely amazing.
According to the experts at NG, "Sinkholes are natural depressions that can form when water-saturated soil and other particles become too heavy and cause the roofs of existing voids in the soil to collapse."
OK, I kinda buy it. But what's an "existing void in the soil?" Are we talking underground caverns, here? Enormous natural chambers thirty stories underground?
'Cause if that's what we're talking about, I have one simple question. How do we know they're empty?
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OMG! I smell another secret city . . . . . . . . .
I heard about this yesterday. It swallowed a 30 story building!!!!!!! I hope there's a shadow city down there!
When I first saw that image I was like "HOAX!" but I tend to believe NatGeo, and there are too many images.
I sure wouldn't want THAT to open up in the nearest city. I can just picture going to the library and looking into a giant hole. :P
:O That's so exciting? Why does it always seem like these things are happening some where else?! Not fair... I wish I could go and explore it xD
When I first saw that image I was like "HOAX!" but then i read it here! :P
guatemala seems to be the place for sinkholes. if you type in 'sinkhole' in the little search bar in the top left corner, there is an old post about another sinkhole in guatemala. it even has a similar heading/title.
how odd.
I saw that picture in the newspaper! The sinkholes (there are more than one) were caused by a tropical storm that went through the area.
I heard about this on world news! It is so weird! But very interesting! I worried about the people who owned the property.
Lets all go over there and climb down inside it!
Jeez it looks like it just ends right there with no bottom! :O
We should all meet there and repel down there and find out.:)
yesSSSS!!!!!! lets all go explore the sink hole!!
I'm going to new york this sunday!!!!!!!!!! *off topic*
I was going to send you this! but then I didn't have time, But know that I thought of you when I saw it.
Must be a really big rabbit to make a hole like that. Curiouser and curiouser.
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What makes it so perfectly . . . round? I wonder if one has ever opened up right under someone. How quickly do they form, does anyone know?
just wondering... will there b a third kiki strike book?
so awesome! wish it was in calif though.....
When I heard about it first, I immediatly thought of Kiki Strike! It's so amaizing and scary with those giant holes showing up! @montana irregulars Wow! Did it swallow a 30 story building?! That must have been terrifying being in that building! Waaa! It's so... Waaa!
Ooh. :O
This sounds like some sort of secret entrance to the Aztec underworld (Mictlan). Maybe Mictlantecuhtli or Mictlantecihuatl decided to open it up. But why?...
*has overactive imagination and loves learning about underworlds*
This is one mystery that I HAVE TO SOLVE! Isn't there a way that people can go down there and investigate or something? I just want to go to the bottom and have a look.
WOW! thats terrifying and amazing and extremely intriguing!!!!
SHADOW CITY HERE WE COME!
--eloise
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