Sinkholes

“We Don’t Know What Happened” St. Louis Officials Clueless As Downtown Sinkhole Swallows Car

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– “We Don’t Know What Happened” St. Louis Officials Clueless As Downtown Sinkhole Swallows Car:

In a development that should send a chill down the spine of every citizen of St. Louis  – especially considering the city’s efforts to revitalize its violence-plagued downtown – a sinkhole spontaneously appeared in the city’s downtown, swallowing a car that had been parked street side.

And even more concering, city officials say they have no idea how it happened.

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Russia: Giant Hole Opens Up In Siberian Village Whose Name Means ‘End Of The World’ (VIDEO)

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FYI.

Mysterious giant hole suddenly appears in Siberia

– Mysterious giant hole suddenly appears in Siberia (SPLOID, July 16, 2014)

– Giant Hole Opens Up In Russian Village Whose Name Means ‘End Of The World’ (VIDEO) (Now The End Begins, July 15, 2014):

Enormous crater appears suddenly in part of Russia whose name translates as ‘the end of the world’

“And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.” Revelation 9:1,2

To put it mildly, scientists around the world are baffled and flocking to a remote region in Russia to investigate why an enormous hole hundreds of feet deep has suddenly appeared in the Yamal Peninsula region of northern Russia by Siberia. To further cause excitement, the name ‘Yamal’ translates out top mean “the end of the world”.

An urgent expedition will leaves tomorrow to probe a giant crater that has appeared in gas-rich northern Siberia. Extraordinary aerial images show a mysterious hole which experts say may be up to 262 feet wide, in the Yamal Peninsula of northern Russia.

‘A scientific team has been sent to investigate the hole and is due to arrive at the scene on Wednesday,’ The Siberian Times has reported. The cause of the hole’s sudden appearance in Yamal – which translates as ‘the end of the world’ – in the far north of Siberia is not yet known.

There has been web speculation about the crater indicating ‘the arrival of a UFO craft’. Experts say that the darkening around the inner rim of the crater indicates ‘severe burning’ which scorched its edges.

Louisiana: Massive Sinkhole Could Be Catastrophic, Close To 1.5 Million Barrels Of Liquid BUTANE (Video)

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– Louisiana probes cause of massive bayou sinkhole (CNN, Aug 1,, 2012):

Louisiana officials are investigating whether an underground salt cavern may be responsible for a large sinkhole that has swallowed 100-foot-tall cypress trees and prompted evacuations in a southern Louisiana bayou.

The state’s Department of Natural Resources ordered Texas Brine Company, which mines the cavern, to drill a well into the cavern to see whether it caused the dark gray slurry-filled hole nearby.

Measurements taken Monday showed the sinkhole measures 324 feet in diameter and is 50 feet deep, but in one corner it goes down 422 feet, said John Boudreaux, director of the Office of Homeland Security in Assumption Parish, about 30 miles south of Baton Rouge.

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Spectacular Sinkholes in China: Are there any reasonable explanations?

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Must see:

– Tropical Storm Agatha floods kill 150, cause gigantic sinkhole in Guatemala City

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On June 4 the road surface suddenly collapsed on the Zhejiang Huang Qu Nan highway

After the spectacular picture of a sinkhole in Guatemala caused by tropical storm Agatha, the Chinese internet has been abuzz with reports of large numbers of the eerily circular formations suddenly appearing across China.

Even straight-laced old Xinhua has got the bug, reporting (in one of those sensationalist, stability-busting headlines for China’s state news agency is renowned): “Cave-ins found in many areas of China”

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On May 27th Mr. Hou discovered a sinkhole while irrigating his rice field

I’m sure there are lots of excellent geological, meteorological and man-made reasons why these things appear – earthquakes, droughts, old coal mine workings – but that would be far too boring for the febrile minds of China’s 400m netizens.

And looking at the pictures, I half-share their collective shiver of anticipation that these things are unnatural portents of catastrophe.

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On April 27, several sinkholes appeared one after another in Yinbin City

The end-of-the-world-is-nigh movie 2012 (was that the worst film ever made?) was a big hit in China, so it’s no surprise that lots of the discussion of these apparitions in the earth make reference to that.

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