Giant Sinkhole in Guatemala

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Tropical storm leaves more than 115 dead in Central America - CNN.com

This looks like the type of endless black hole you'd see in a bad sci-fi movie.

"Residents told CNN that a three-story building and a house fell into the hole." WTF?
 


When I first saw the picture earlier in the day on CNN's website I thought for sure it was fucking shopped. Blows my mind.
 
Shit looks real to me.

And from this quote it looks like they are used to it. >>>>>> "A similar hole opened up nearby last year, they said."
 
I wonder what the estimated chance of dieing from a sink hole is?

Do people ever go into the sink holes to get the bodies back and investigate them?
 
They better be careful - the dinosaurs in the middle of the earth can come out of shit like that.

I'm slow - and didn't read the articles or anything - but wtf does a tropical storm create a sink hole like that? Like a downwards mud slide or something?
 
Would be crazy to be in your house and feel a sudden free fall. Look out the window and see dirt, roots and a disappearing sky.

but I think you would know before you made it to the winder
 
FTC-Hater said:
The last one was around 100m (or double the Statue of Liberty).

Not sure about this one. But would probably be around the same.
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I read earlier (maybe on the wiki page about the city) that it's 60 metres deep and 30 metres wide!

Got to feel kind of sorry for the one guy that guy sunk though...
 
I read on National Geographic earlier that they thought it was about 300 feet deep but it doesn't look like anybody knows for sure yet. I'm not sure if anybody is getting too close to it, I guess they think it could grow larger and they aren't sure how they are going to fill it yet.
 
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