End Of The World Is Near!

[iggs111]

Following pictures are from a sinkhole in Guatemala. I know they look photo shopped but they are indeed real. The end is near folks.

The sinkhole has likely been weeks or even years in the making—floodwaters from tropical storm Agatha caused the sinkhole to finally collapse, scientists say.

The sinkhole appears to be about 60 feet (18 meters) wide and about 30 stories deep, said James Currens, a hydrogeologist at the University of Kentucky.


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.

Another way sinkholes can form is if water enlarges a natural fracture in a limestone bedrock layer. As the crack gets bigger, the topsoil gently slumps, eventually leaving behind a sinkhole.

It's unclear which mechanism is behind the 2010 Guatemala sinkhole, but in either case the final collapse can be sudden, Currens said.

(Related: "Sinkhole Holds 12,000-Year-Old Clues to Early Americans.")

2010 Guatemala Sinkhole Could Grow

A ruptured sewer line is thought to have caused the sinkhole that appeared in Guatemala City in 2007.

The 2010 Guatemala sinkhole could have formed in a similar fashion, Currens said. A burst sanitary or storm sewer may have been slowly saturating the surrounding soil for a long time before tropical storm Agatha added to the inundation.

"The tropical storm came along and would have dumped even more water in there, and that could have been the final trigger that precipitated the collapse," Currens said.

Depending on the makeup of the subsurface layer, the Guatemala sinkhole "could eventually enlarge and take in more buildings," he said.

Typically, officials fill in sinkholes with large rocks and other debris. But the 2010 Guatemala sinkhole "is so huge that it's going to take a lot of fill material to fill it," Currens said.

"I don't know what they're going to do."

[iggs111]

there used to be a 3 story house where that sinkhole is now.......

"And from a giant hole on the ground, evil will return back to the surface."

Revelation 12:23

[pwherr]

Big fuking hole

[iggs111]

Originally Posted by pwherr

Big fuking hole

lol yea that's a good way to put it

[ParrotHead]

Better get out and start living then

[iggs111]

Originally Posted by ParrotHead

Better get out and start living then

[Bisket]

Iggs just reduced his daily sleep to one hour

[iggs111]

Originally Posted by Bisket23

Iggs just reduced his daily sleep to one hour

Hahaha

[secondbase]

that is one scary picture

[Triballife]

What gets me is that its about 30 stories deep

We had one up here in Quebec in May.

As the shock of losing an entire family swallowed by a sinkhole fades, neighbours are returning to their homes. Residents of the rural Quebec town of St.-Jude are now mourning for Richard Prefontaine, his wife, Lyne Charbonneau and their daughters, Anaïs and Amélie.


The Préfontaine family gathered in front of their basement television Monday evening to watch the Habs face off against the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game Six of the playoffs. Relatives said they were big fans and would have been most definitely cheering the team on from their home in Saint-Jude, Quebec.

Like thousands of other families across the country, they had probably just cheered Michael Cammalleri and Jaroslav Spacek’s goals halfway into the second period, when the score was still 3-2 Canadiens when the earth moved.

At about 9:30 p.m., a landslide swept the Préfontaine home about 30 metres from where it stood and sucked it into a nine metre-deep hole filled with mud. When their bodies were pulled from the basement yesterday evening, at least two of them still sitting on the family couch.


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[GFootsXtreme]

3rd world engineering at it's worst!

wtf they build a whole city nobody surveyed the ground underneath???????