Giant sinkhole opens in Germany (1 Viewer)

[Phette]

Repairs are to begin Wednesday on a 65-foot-deep (20 meters) sinkhole that opened in the eastern German town of Schmalkalden on Monday, local authorities said.
The sinkhole, which measured more than 130 feet (40 meters) across, swallowed a car and forced the evacuation of 25 people in nine houses, the regional newspaper Thueringer-Allegemeine reported.
Officials told the paper more than 1,000 truckloads of gravel would be needed to fill the hole.
Residents reported hearing a loud roar as the earth gave way early Monday morning, according to the newspaper report. The cause of the sinkhole had not been determined.
Jürgen Reinholz, environment and agriculture minister for the state of Thuringia, said natural causes were suspected, according to Spiegal Online International.


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http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/02/giant-sinkhole-opens-in-germany/

 

[p4irs]

yeah..pretty fucked up

 

[matahari]

Those things are scary as fuck considering they can happen anywhere at anytime.

 

[wino]

^ I rekon the last one was better

 

[Jason]

Those things are scary as fuck considering they can happen anywhere at anytime.

Waiting for an even bigger one to happen in SF. That whole city is one big unstable sinkhole.

 

[aRyan]

I'd be pretty pissed off if I found a gigantic hole in the middle of my street one monday morning.

 

[dennis]

for a second,i thought it said "stinkhole", and started thinking of some of the female members here.

 

[Jason]

Hitler's Revenge. He found spinning in his non-existent grave too boring.