Florida Sinkhole and Other Headline Makers (Photos)

A photo gallery of significant sinkholes that have formed around the world in recent years.
Florida Sinkhole and Other Headline Makers (Photos)
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Florida sinkhole: Sinkholes, like the one that swallowed a man in his Florida bedroom on Feb. 28, are usually caused by the chemical dissolution of rocks like sandstone. They may form very slowly or quickly, and at times are hastened by human activity like a burst water main.

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Workers usemachinery to fill in a sinkhole that buildings collapsed into near a subway construction site in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong province on Jan 28, 2013. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

Workers usemachinery to fill in a sinkhole that buildings collapsed into near a subway construction site in Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong Province, on Jan. 28, 2013.

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Debris in a sinkhole that buildings collapsed into near a subway construction site in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong province. The hole measured about 1,000 square feet across and was around 30 feet deep, but no one was killed, according to a state media report.  (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

Debris in a sinkhole that buildings collapsed into near a subway construction site in Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong Province. The hole measured about 1,000 square feet across and was around 30 feet deep, but no one was killed, according to a state media report. 

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A construction crew removes part of the road on Fifth Avenue after a water main break in the Flatiron District in New York City on Feb. 1, 2013. 

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Louisiana's massive sinkhole, near Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou on Nov. 25, 2012. (Source: Louisiana Governor's Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness, Gohsep.la.gov)

Louisiana’s massive sinkhole, near Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou on Nov. 25, 2012. 

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An aerial view photo shows sinkholes created by the drying of the Dead Sea, near Kibbutz Ein Gedi, on Nov. 10, 2011. The Dead Sea is one of the sites candidate of other 28 sits in a international online campaign votes to select the new Seven Wonders of World Heritage Sites. (Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images)

An aerial view of sinkholes created by the drying of the Dead Sea on the sea’s western shore near Kibbutz Ein Gedi in Isreal on Nov. 10, 2011. The Dead Sea is one of the sites candidate of another 28 sites in an international online campaign voting to select the new Seven Wonders of World Heritage Sites.

<a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/07/120809748_sinkhole.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-355135" src="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/07/120809748_sinkhole-633x450.jpg" alt="A man inspects a sinkhole inside  a house on July 19, 2011 north of Guatemala City.  When neighbors heard the loud boom overnight they thought a cooking gas canister had detonated. Instead they found a deep sinkhole the size of a large pot inside a home in a neighborhood just north of Guatemala City.  The sinkhole was 12.2 meters (40 feet) deep and 80 centimeters (32 inches) in diameter. (Johan Ordonez/AFP/Getty Images)" width="590" height="419"/></a>
A man inspects a sinkhole inside  a house on July 19, 2011 north of Guatemala City.  When neighbors heard the loud boom overnight they thought a cooking gas canister had detonated. Instead they found a deep sinkhole the size of a large pot inside a home in a neighborhood just north of Guatemala City.  The sinkhole was 12.2 meters (40 feet) deep and 80 centimeters (32 inches) in diameter. (Johan Ordonez/AFP/Getty Images)

A man inspects a sinkhole inside a house on July 19, 2011, north of Guatemala City, Guatemala. When neighbors heard a loud boom in the night, they thought a cooking gas canister had detonated. They instead found a deep sinkhole the size of a large pot inside a nearby home. The sinkhole was 12.2 meters (40 feet) deep and 80 centimeters (32 inches) in diameter. 

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Workers use excavators to fill in a sinkhole which occured overnight on Shiliuzhuang road, in Beijing on April 26, 2011. A section of the road collapsed beneath a truck, slightly injuring the driver and a passenger, who both jumped out the vehicle beforeit sank into the hole. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

Workers use excavators to fill in a sinkhole that formed during the night on Shiliuzhuang Road, in Beijing on April 26, 2011. A section of the road collapsed beneath a truck, slightly injuring the driver and passenger, who both jumped out the vehicle before it sank into the hole.

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A truck lies in a sinkhole which occured overnight on Shiliuzhuang road, in Beijing on April 26, 2011.   (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

A truck lies in the sinkhole that formed during the night on Shiliuzhuang Road, in Beijing on April 26, 2011.

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A sinkhole caused by a broken water main collapsed part of Friendship Blvd, swallowing a car on Dec. 3, 2010. No one was injured in the accident. (Logan Mock-Bunting/Getty Images)

A sinkhole caused by a broken water main collapsed part of Friendship Boulevard in Chevy Chase, M.D., swallowing a car on Dec. 3, 2010. No one was injured in the accident.

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 A massive, approximately 200' x 240', sinkhole opens up and tears apart the pavement of Soledad Mountain Road, October 3, 2007 in the Mount Soledad neighborhood of La Jolla near San Diego, California.  The landslide has damaged or destroyed reportedly 6 homes and forced the evacuation of at least 20 others.  (Photo by Kent Horner/Getty Images)

A massive sinkhole, approximately 200 feet by 240 feet, opened up and tore apart the pavement of Soledad Mountain Road on Oct. 3, 2007, in the Mount Soledad neighborhood of La Jolla near San Diego, Calif. The landslide reportedly damaged or destroyed 6 homes and forced the evacuation of at least 20 others.

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A 42,000-pound Los Angeles Fire Department fire truck protrudes from a sinkhole on September 8, 2009 in the Los Angeles, California community of North Hollywood. Firefighters were dispatched to a 6-inch cast-iron main under a residential street before sunrise. Upon approach, the driver saw a large amount of water in the darkness and was backing when the truck fell into the ground. The firefighters were not hurt in the accident. Officials have not yet determined if the break is related to a broken 95-year-old 64-inch pipe in neighboring Studio city.  (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

A 42,000-pound Los Angeles Fire Department firetruck protrudes from a sinkhole on Sept. 8, 2009, in the Los Angeles, Calif., community of North Hollywood. Firefighters were dispatched to a 6-inch cast-iron main under a residential street before sunrise. Upon approach, the firetruck driver saw a large amount of water in the darkness and was backing up when the truck fell into the ground. No firefighters were hurt in the accident.

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Trucks lay fallen over the rubble of the collapsed 'Pinheiros' subway station in Sao Paulo, Brazil 15 January 2007. Rescuers are dugging through tons of rubble in search of as many as seven people believed buried inside a giant sinkhole that opened at a construction site in South America's biggest city. Brazilian officials said a passenger minivan had fallen to the bottom of a 40-meter (130-foot)-deep pit dug to facilitate delivery of supplies for workers building an underground railway line. The lip of the hole gave way to a landslide, taking with it vehicles on a roadway around the edge and dumping tons of earth, asphalt and concrete atop them. (Mauricio Lima/AFP/Getty Images) Mauricio Lima

Trucks lay fallen over the rubble of the collapsed Pinheiros metro station in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on January 15, 2007.

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YouTube screenshot of a Florida sinkhole in this file photo.

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The ground collapsed just outside a middle school in Tantuo Village of Nanning, Guangxi, China, in this file photo. Later, four nearby villages successively developed sinkholes of various sizes.