Terrifying Sinkhole Opens in Guatemala, Swallows Three-Story Building

nb4 Silver Surfer reference.

this is why we don't devide by zero.

this is why we don't devide by zero.

ugh, what is up with this, first earth quakes, then oil spills, now giant 100 feet deep sinkholes? it's like the earth is actively trying to destroy us...

Who transported a sand worm from Arakis to Earth?

I was thinking Photoshop until I saw the other photos taken from the scene. Usually you don't see one of these big enough to still look like a giant underground cavern when it falls in and eats a house.

this is why we don't divide by zero.

I'm not conspiracy theory nut, but HAARP at work???
Wait...maybe this does make me a conspiracy theory nut lol.

building foundation fail. XD

I knew the Hedron Collider was a bad idea ...

yeah how do you even fix that? When the ground is disappearing from below you what do you do? And one thing i'd like to know even more is where is all that material going? It has to be washing out somewhere?

chihuahua, Galactus can't be far behind...

Whoah. Lets concentrate on the real issue here.

Popsci, why on Earth (or under it now I suppose) are you referencing the Daily Mail?! That's like, as bad as fox news.

It does look kinda fake

it's not fake, and when i first saw this, i also thought of the silver surfer lol

it DOES feel like the Earth is turning against us with these earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, obnoxious oil spills...2012 anyone?

I don't beleive it. You should wait april fool to publish that kind of news.

What I would like to know it´s how that hole came to be? and where is all the material that used to be there, where did it go? We are talking about 175.930 cubic meters of material, thats a lot of dirt to move. And if it was made by water, where did that water drain to? That would mean there is a bigger and deeper problem unde Guatemalan cities. Aldough i dont thik silver surfer has anything to do, i think it´s the predators one day there is no hole, the next day there is a hole.

Somewhere in the Guatemalan countryside, Tom Cruise is doing battle with a 150 foot tall, three legged machine from Mars.

Very scary, looks like something from a horror movie...
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wouldn't it suck to fall asleep, all nice and snuggly on solid earth, only to be woken up by having your roof falling on you, while your floor and bed fall out from under you, all that noise and mayhem, and then darkness....give me bedrock please.

My question is how did it form in a nearly perfect circle? Almost looks man-made.

Usually sink holes aren't that deep, it doesn't make sense to me that the area underground where the wearing away happened would have to move up 100 ft. in order for it to collapse.

Wow, this is crazy! It looks like something out of a sci-fi movie!

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They should send a remote controlled helicopter with a video feed down there. Get more insight on where all that material went.

Any guess to the one guys last thoughts just before his world plummeted and the ground swollowed him whole? Thats like the spontaneous combusting humans...I always wonder what their last thoughts must of been...Is it "Universe Thought Police" or "Ironic Visualization" Poor Guy the walls dont talk.

*SIGH* this will just be another movie opportunity for hollywood. >_>

whats erie is its perfectly circular

Awesome photo.

What I can't believe is how many here seem to be completely in the dark about sinkholes.
They're everywhere , and have always been.

Common geological occurrence. I know the "F*** books" generations have been here a long time now, but you're how many clicks from having a google tab opened before you?

looks like the possible effects of HAARP. google it. learn. its real

There have been 2 sinkholes, one in 2007 and this recent one. The first one was caused by an old drain system which the municipality was on the way to exploring...Ironically, they were considering the rental of a robotic camera to explore it, as there were reports of rumbling sounds. The tragedy happened before the rental decision... For this second sinkholw, the municipality suspects the copious amount of water from the Agatha storm pushed down sand from the also recently volcano eruptions (the night before the storm arrived), clogged the old drains and the rest is in the news. What are they doing? First they are sorrounding the area, will fix the drain pipes and then will fill the whole, no hopes of moving somewhere else though.

@ Nick O

HAARP may be real but to relate this naturally occurring sinkhole is ridiculous.

I doubt that you actually understand how HAARP works.

Yeah that's the ticket we'll "rain" a country to death until we can make naturally unstable land prone to sinkholes, have, more sinkholes with additional rainfall.

If it were something like HAARP, why would they not just cause a quake? or the other more devastating capabilities of it?

The capabilities of the science and your imagination could be put to better use than telling people we are causing something that has been going on naturally for years.

Do you believe we cause sinkholes in the US as well?

Please take your own advice and study the actual capabilities of the device you speak of.

It could do some bad things in the wrong hands, but this wasn't one of them.

It's those pesky Romulans!

Throw Courtney Love in there! Hole in sinkhole!

So where are the "other" photos?

"Believe nothing you hear, and only half of what you see." — Mark Twain

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"100 feet wide by 200 feet deep. That's nearly 175,000 cubic yards. That wouldn't even handle Denver's trash disposal for a week! Fill-er-up!"

anyone else notice this math fail...

It's just like from that Monty Python ep."Er I, I'm afraid the minister's fallen through the Earth's crust...."

Did anyone throw a rope down there to go looking for the missing ministerio?

The Tony Hayward reaction: "It only looks big, but the earth is a very big place. It also looks solid enough. We can fill it with water and make it a public swimming pool."

@Melungeon1
I agree with Nick that it could possibly be HAARP. You are trying to assign a motive("why would they not just cause a quake?"). Why doesn't matter. Is it possible? You can't know any more about what HAARP is capable of than Nick or I unless you work on the project, which I'm doubtful of.

By the way, HAARP could theoretically cause earthquake liquefaction, which could indeed cause unconsolidated soil or sand to flow much like water and Nick was obviously not talking about ALL sinkholes... Just the massive unnatural sinkhole in Guatemala that warranted an international news article...

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the perfect circlular quality and apparent bottomless look make is appear photoshopped. checked google images and found different views and those don't look faked. pretty scary, worse than an earthquake in some ways if you're too close.

Both the size and rarity of the sinkhole have been exaggerated. This sinkhole is 20 meters across and 33 meters deep (from the AP 2-Jun-2010), not "100 feet across by 200 feet deep". This area of Guatemala has these large sinkholes appear every few years. In 2007 a large sinkhole formed only 2-3 miles away (that sinkhole swallowed homes and people).

And all you HAARP conspiracy buffs need to get rid of your tin-foil hats.

Gray birds made it. The same as the crop circle/diagrams.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KoR2t-iM9k&feature=player_embedded

never know I might be correct.

I thought this was photo shopped when I first saw this. Very sad, but sinkholes do happen acroos the globe. Time to move on.

What I would like to know is how in the world did a sinkhole suddenly appear in almost a perfect circle?
It was clearly caused by humans somehow!

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How does something like this happen? They said the storm hit at storm strength for a relatively short period of time, so how does THIS happen? That photo is incredible!
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the silver surfer is here, and soon galactus. oh well, its been nice, civilization and all