.: Hundimiento Zona 2

Topic The End of the World (By Cif!, Tuesday 1 June 2010 @10:38) Contribution by tobozo

«a massive, spontaneous sinkhole (”hundimiento”) that appeared today in Zone 2 of Guatemala City, after overwhelming saturation of rains from tropical storm Agatha. Not Photoshop, sadly: these happen from time to time during major storms in part because of unstable geology»

Source: boingboing.net
See also: flickr.com
and also: picture of the 2007 sinkhole
and: Some scientific explanation (fr)

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