30 times the earth opened up (31 photos)

In recent years, news of failures appears in one, then in other part of the world. It seems that the earth is already difficult to bear the weight human buildings, factories, plants, pavement. That's just a few examples of how under the feet of people suddenly opened up Earth.





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A road collapsed after a storm near the village of Palo Blanco on the Spanish island of Tenerife November 23, 2009.

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Local residents inspect the road that collapsed during floods in Toowoombuy, a city west of Brisbane, on January 10, 2001.

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This sinkhole was caused by a water main break in Chicago, Illinois on April 18, 2013.

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Rescuers carry out the body of a victim of a road failure in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China, May 21, 2013.

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On January 28, 2013, the technician digs in a funnel the size of about 100 square meters in area and about 10 meters deep.

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This hole formed overnight in Beijing on April 26, 2011.

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In the summer of 2012, a large sinkhole formed on East Monument Street in Baltimore.

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Summer Bay Hotel in Claremont, Florida on August 12, 2013 d. The guests had only 10-15 minutes to run out of the falling building.

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A car with two passengers fell into a sinkhole in Baltimore on April 28, 2004.

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A woman looks into a 3m by 3m hole that was created in her driveway in March 2003.

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A car that fell into a big sinkhole in Minnesota. June 20, 2011

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A helicopter over a crater 36 meters wide and 54 meters deep in New Wales on June 29, 1994.

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Cars in the sinkhole formed by the collapse roads to a system of underground caves in the southern Italian city of Gallipoli, March 30, 2007.

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March 12, 2008 This dip was caused by a storm that sank many boats and caused extensive damage to settlements in the area Bay of Biscay.

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Passers-by look at the collapsed section of the Shunwei Road in Nanchang, China's Jiangxi province, on April 25, 2007.

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A sinkhole near the Qingquan Primary School in Dachengqiao City, Ningxiang Province, on June 15, 2010.

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The crater, which, according to the Libyan authorities, was formed in as a result of coalition airstrikes, visible in the area of ​​the Bab al-Aziziya complex in Tripoli on 12 May 2011.

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The truck fell into a sinkhole after part of the structure bridge collapsed into a river in Changchun, Jilin province on May 29, 2011.

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Site collapse beforehorns in Ostrowiec-Swietokrzyski, South Poland, December 19, 2012 due to the formation of a funnel measuring 10 meters deep and 40 meters wide.

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Rescuers use a crane to pull a bus out of a sinkhole in Lisbon on November 25, 2003.

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A firefighter stands next to a fresh sinkhole in Taiyuan, Shanxi, December 26, 2012.

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People stand at a sinkhole in Fukou County, Hunan Province, January 12, 2013.

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The wreckage of a residential building and a destroyed road in the village Nachterstedt, where on July 18, 2009 a huge sinkhole formed. Three residents are still unaccounted for.

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The sinkhole blocked the San Diego National Highway 15 exit on February 24, 1998.

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Tsunami hit Nagapattinam, a city in the Indian state Tamil Nadu, December 27, 2004 causing numerous failures.

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Workers close up a gap in a road in Xi'an, Shaanxi, on May 27, 2012.

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Police officers inspect a crater in Hefei, Anhui on August 8, 2009.

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A car is lifted from a crater in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, September 7, 2008.

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Rescuers on the road in Ludi, Hunan province, June 18, 2013 of the year. The surface of the road sank after driving on it truck.

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A tank truck falls into a crater on a road in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, on July 27, 2013.