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This is the sinkhole which has appeared at the Port of Liverpool £400m (Liverpool 2) container terminal
Liverpool Echo   15 February 2017   United Kingdom   Europe  
The sink hole at the Port of Liverpool (source: Liverpool Echo)
<p>This is the sinkhole which appeared at the Port of Liverpool’s £400m Liverpool2 container terminal.</p><p>The hole appeared at the new port complex, which opened in November and the area had to be sealed off.</p><p>The ECHO has now been sent a photograph ...
Japan fixes vast Fukuoka city sinkhole – in two days
The Guardian   15 November 2016   Japan   Asia  
This combination of two photos show a sinkhole on a road in Fukuoka on 8 November and the repaired same road on 15 November. Photograph: AP
<p>The 30 metre hole was repaired in 48 hours, although health and safety checks delayed the reopening.</p> <p>A section of road in the centre of the Japanese city of Fukuoka has reopened just days after a sinkhole opened up outside a busy railway station ...
Seven houses evacuated in Ripon after huge sinkhole appears
The Guardian   10 November 2016   United Kingdom   Europe  
Sinkhole (surce: the Guardian/Andrew Jackson)
<p>Seven houses have been evacuated after a sinkhole appeared in gardens in a North Yorkshire market town dubbed the sinkhole capital of Britain.</p> <p>Emergency crews were called to the 20-metre wide (66ft) hole in Magdalen&rsquo;s Road, Ripon, on Tuesday ...
Huge sinkhole swallows street in Fukuoka (video)
BBC NEWS   08 November 2016   Japan   Asia  
Aerial view of sinkhole (source: KYODO/REUTERS)
<p>A giant sinkhole swallowed a five-lane street in the centre of one of Japan's biggest cities on Tuesday morning.</p><p>The collapse began at around 05:00 local time (20:00 GMT Monday) near Hakata Station, the busiest in Fukuoka city in the southern island ...
The sinkhole so big you can fit the Shard inside: Giant underwater cave billed as 'the world's deepest' is found in the South China Sea
Daily Mail   26 July 2016   China   South China Sea  
Beautiful: Chinese researchers claimed on Friday they have found the deepest underground sinkhole
<p>A giant underwater sinkhole found in the South China Sea is believed to be the deepest in the world.</p> <p>The finding was announced on Friday by researchers from China, reported Huanqiu.com, an affiliation to People's Daily Online.</p> <p>Dubbed the 'Dragon ...
Dozens of trains cancelled causing rush hour travel chaos after 50ft deep sinkhole opens up beneath tracks
Mirror   19 July 2016   UK   London  
Commuters have been told to avoid London Bridge station after a sinkhole opened up near Forest Hill
<p>Lines between London Bridge and East Croydon, south London, were taken off service, with the hole - which is six feet wide - opening up in Forest Hill, south east London just after 1pm</p>
Filed under: Natural Hazards
Could the sinkhole on the A1 be the result of a mine collapse?
Chronicle Live   28 June 2016   UK   Gateshead  
Video available The A1 northbound is closed following the appearance of a sinkhole in between junction 67 Lamesley and 68 Lobley Hill of the A1 motorway
<p>One of the region&rsquo;s busiest roads has been left in chaos following a &lsquo;sinkhole&rsquo; emerging in Gateshead.</p> <p>The hole, which was around 5m by 5m square, was reported late on Saturday night and on Sunday a stretch of the northbound carriageway ...
LRT tunnel work to resume this week after sinkhole flooding
CBCnews   22 June 2016   Canada   Ottawa  
woman looks down at the sinkhole that swallowed a stretch of Rideau Street in downtown Ottawa on June 8. Rideau Transit Group said on June 20 it expects to reopen Rideau Street in a week. (Susana Mas/CBC )
<p>Excavation of the tunnel at Rideau Station is set to resume this week, after work stopped on June 8 when the tunnel flooded following a watermain break that led to the sinkhole on Rideau Street.</p>
Filed under: Construction News
Geohazard: Giant sinkholes near West Texas oil patch towns are growing -- as new ones lurk
Science Daily   15 June 2016   USA   Texas  
Measurements from satellite radar images of two giant West Texas sinkholes Credit: Jin-woo Kim, SMU
<p>Two giant sinkholes that sit between two West Texas oil patch towns are growing -- and two new ones appear to be lurking, say geophysicists. Satellite radar images reveal substantial ground movement in and around the infamous sinkholes near Wink, Texas ...
Filed under: Natural Hazards
Sinkhole shuts down all NB I-5 lanes in San Joaquin County
KCRA   01 June 2016   USA   San Joakin county  
A sinkhole that started out 1 foot in diameter Tuesday morning, grew to stretch across the majority of the northbound Interstate 5 lanes near Tracy.
<p>The interstate is shut down at the Highway 132 offramp, and traffic is being diverted onto northbound Highway 33 and back onto northbound I-5.</p> <p>The closure began about noon Tuesday and is estimated to last until sometime Thursday afternoon, officials ...