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Giant sinkhole in Guatemala

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A huge sinkhole in Guatemala City, Guatemala, crashed into being on Sunday, reportedly swallowing a three-story building—and echoing a similar, 2007 sinkhole in Guatemala.

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.

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."

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Fuck me... :eek:

I told Javier not to divide by zero, but he just wouldn't listen

Javier, screw that it's the silver surfer

And deep enough to hold two Statues of Liberty stacked on end. ;)

Javier called. He said it was really goddamn dark down there and the Mole Men keep trying to eat him

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Originally Posted by Zulu Two Six (Post 14081)

Javier, screw that it's the silver surfer

Nothing can escape the power of Galactus, Devourer of Worlds!

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Originally Posted by Excalibur (Post 14092)

Nothing can escape the power of Galactus, Devourer of Worlds!

I can.

Step 1: Locate bathroom

Step 2: Go into bathroom

Step 3: Lock the fucking door

Step 4: Don't open the door

^
Step 5: Take a really, really long shit.

Dear god! That thing looks like an orbital satellite blew a whole in the ground!
What's at the bottom of that thing?

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Originally Posted by ManiacallyChallenged (Post 14167)

Dear god! That thing looks like an orbital satellite blew a whole in the ground!
What's at the bottom of that thing?

Javier, a cell phone, and a bunch of very hungry Mole Men

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Originally Posted by S&Wshooter (Post 14170)

Javier, a cell phone, and a bunch of very hungry Mole Men

And supposedly a 3-story building, but so far that's "unconfirmed".

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Originally Posted by S&Wshooter (Post 14094)

I can.

Step 1: Locate bathroom

Step 2: Go into bathroom

Step 3: Lock the fucking door

Step 4: Don't open the door

Reminds me the Jurassic Park´s T-rex scene...

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Originally Posted by Markost (Post 14267)

Reminds me the Jurassic Park´s T-rex scene...

LOL. Did you know that in the book, that guy wasn't a pansy, punched a raptor to death and didn't get eaten by a T-Rex? That was actually some other guy

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Originally Posted by S&Wshooter (Post 14268)

LOL. Did you know that in the book, that guy wasn't a pansy, punched a raptor to death and didn't get eaten by a T-Rex? That was actually some other guy

Yeah, a part that they SADLY left out of the movie

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Originally Posted by Excalibur (Post 14285)

Yeah, a part that they SADLY left out of the movie

It would have made my childhood just that much more awesome.

*rawr!*
"Shut your bitch mouth!"
*sound of raptor being punched in it's bitch mouth*

both the books were nothing like the movie.
except the second one, it was vaguely similar

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Originally Posted by Zulu Two Six (Post 14299)

both the books were nothing like the movie.
except the second one, it was vaguely similar

The first book ends with the Costa Rican Air Force destroying the island, but... this country don´t have armed forces since 1948...

Costa Rica has an Airforce? Next thing you'll tell me is that Cuba has a Navy

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Originally Posted by Excalibur (Post 14335)

Costa Rica has an Airforce? Next thing you'll tell me is that Cuba has a Navy

They do. Sorta

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Originally Posted by S&Wshooter (Post 14336)

They do. Sorta

Some old Stenka ships and other soviet junk rusting in the docks.

Does Japan still have a military?

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Originally Posted by Swordfish941 (Post 14352)

Does Japan still have a military?

Not really. Just a few guys with Howa's

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Originally Posted by RockRacer (Post 14395)

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This thread is hilarious!

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Best thing about it is that e aren't even really trying to be funny