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Three storey building swallowed by giant sink hole

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Storms in Guatemala caused by Tropical Storm Agatha have left a trail of devastation, most notably the giant sink hole that has swallowed up a three storey building. The city was ravaged by high winds, torrential rain and deadly mudslides during the storm, which was when the hole appeared. It is believe that one man was in the building when it was swallowed up, whilst other remain missing.

Three storey building swallowed by giant sink hole

The storm which is the first named storm of the 2010 Pacific season caused devastation in Guatemala and neighboring El Salvador at the weekend after dumping more than three feet of rain, officials have reported that Agatha has killed at least 146 people with 53 still missing across Central America.

The sink hole which appeared near a downtown intersection swallowed up an area which was larger than the street of an intersection, locals believe that a poor sewage drainage system was to blame for the sinkhole. It is similar to on which opened up nearby last year and can appear suddenly but are thousands of years in the making, geologists said. As rainwater gradually eats away at the porous rock such as limestone that is beneath the surface it becomes weakened and creates a honeycomb of caverns and caves, these can become packed with mud and it is believed that floodwater may have flushed away that mud, causing the ground above to collapse.

Picture courtesy of horslips5

14 Comments

  • i am feeling really shocking on seeing this news .i hope that nothing like this would happen in next days
    bhavya tyagi wrote on 3rd June 2010
  • i have a hard time believing this picture..
    God wrote on 14th June 2010
  • where does the hole stop?
    God wrote on 14th June 2010
  • it is really a shocking news.. it's unbelievable.. how can a hole,as big as that suddenly appear at the center of a road..
    zsc_jinx wrote on 8th July 2010
  • hmm, this picture looks unreal? are u serious? is this how it really looked??!!! wow, so mamny distasters happening today.
    SCOODLE wrote on 13th August 2010
  • i really think it is unreal but if it was real i will be really scared
    Anime Rox wrote on 10th September 2010
  • LORD HAVE MERCY
    MWANJE NICHOLAS wrote on 23rd September 2010
  • Wow! It looks so unreal but then again. I wonder if there wiil be a hole again?
    Michelle wrote on 20th October 2010
  • oh my go its not real if it is how come its not all over the news on tv and why would people say because of poor souge
    chloe wrote on 21st October 2010
  • This is Photo shoped my Uncle is a expert photographer and we zoomed into this and you can see that the lines in the hole dont match up with the street! it was placed in there! plus the building that its by would have collasped by the intergity of the building! its to week to hold it up like that it would have crumbled and fell! Fake!
    Cullen wrote on 18th November 2010
  • This is so creepy is it real or not if it is i am scared because this could cause the world to die!!!!!!!!!
    Kory chavez wrote on 22nd November 2010
  • My family is from guatemala and yes it is real. By the way, chloe, this was all over the news.
    Jennifer wrote on 4th May 2011
  • I don't think the picture is real at all. I mean, it sure looks like computerized. Anyway, there must have been some water pipes or stuff like that in the way, right? Hmm...
    sw33yz wrote on 23rd June 2011
  • I tried to look for the hole on google earth but there's none. That proves that this is not true.
    Mejje wrote on 1st July 2011

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