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The 2010 Guatemala City sinkhole was a disaster on 30 May 2010, in which an area approximately 20 m (65 feet) in diameter and 90 m (300 feet) deep collapsed in Guatemala City's Zona 2, swallowing a three-story factory.
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Jun 12, 2013 · But no one was prepared for anything like this. On Sunday, May 30, 2010, an enormous hole, 60 feet wide and 30 stories deep, opened up in the middle of Guatemala City, swallowing a three-story ...
Jun 2, 2010 · If there is not enough support for the land above the spaces, then the ground collapses and results in a sinkhole. Natural depressions that collect water and man-made structures such as houses and ...
Jun 5, 2010 · Guatemala Sinkhole Not a Sinkhole. Natural sinkholes generally form when heavy, water-saturated soil causes the roof of an underground limestone cavity to collapse, or when water widens a natural ...
Oct 9, 2019 · The Guatemala City sinkhole, estimated to be 60 feet (18 meters) wide and 300 feet (100 meters) deep, appears to have been triggered by the deluge from tropical storm Agatha.
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Jun 1, 2010 · From the air, the giant Guatemala City sinkhole appears so perfectly round and deep that photos of it almost look doctored. Up close on the ground, “the only way to describe is to say it’s ...
Jun 1, 2010 · The sun emerged Monday in hardest-hit Guatemala, where officials reported 123 dead and at least 90 missing. In the department of Chimaltenango - a province west of Guatemala City - landslides ...
