A 20m bottomless sinkhole opens its maw in Sichuan village

Want China Times, Staff Reporter 2013-03-03

The hole. (Internet photo)

A sinkhole gaping 20 meters across appeared in a village of west China's Sichuan province after 6 days of strangle rumbling noises under the earth, according to Chinese-language news website wccdaily.com.

How deep the hole goes, no one knows. After 15m, the center of the hole continues to plunge down. Rocks drop silently into its depths.

Apparently, the sinkhole had been widening out from a a smaller one since last September, said Huang Dajin, who lives near the pit. First he heard tremors; the small hole sunk wider and deeper until it became the monster hole it is now, after 6 days of the sound of falling rocks and earth, said Huang.

These pits are common in the village but the 20-meter hole breaks the record, said local geologists. The soft earth in the region is vulnerable to rapid erosion from rain, especially after the 2008 earthquakes, so much so that "you can see a sinkhole every 50km in the village," said geologists.

Though the sinkhole, situated relatively far away from residents, will not cause any immediate damage, it should be filled or it will could sink further when the rainy season comes, said geologists.　

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Huang Dajin　　黃大金

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2013 - Predictions > (The Archangel Uriel by Jennifer Hoffman)

“…  Earth Changes — The dramatic, chaotic and devastating earth changes that have long been predicted still have some potential of happening; however, we have averted many of them. Some of the earth changes I see for 2013 are natural, others are due to man-made activities. There are several active volcanoes around the Philippines, in part of southeast Asia, in Yellowstone that will cause global concern and a long dormant volcano in Australia that will appear unexpectedly in late August or September.

Of greater concern are the sinkholes that were mentioned in 2012 and will appear in greater numbers in 2013. Many of these are caused by drilling, frakking and other known and hidden activities that disrupt the earth’s substrata. I see these happening in the Middle East, especially Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iraq and in the United States, around the Gulf Coast, the areas around Ohio, Pennsylvania and Kentucky, Nevada and Illinois (currently, frakking is supposedly not being done in Illinois but I believe that it is poised to start in 2013 and once it does the appearance of sinkholes will be immediate, to the extent that the damage frakking creates can no longer be hidden). Some of these will be very large and open quickly. There will be significant properly losses and some loss of life. …”