Amusing Planet

Showing posts with the label Sinkholes

Deep down El Zapote cenote, a 50-meter-deep water-filled sinkhole in Quintana Roo, Mexico, on the Yucatan Peninsula, stalactites take a diff...

The city of Berezniki, in Russia’s Ural mountains, is slowly sinking into the earth. The city of more than 150,000 individuals was built dir...

Cerro Sarisarinama is a table-topped mountain called a tepui , in Jaua-Sarisariñama National Park at the far south-west of Bolívar State, in...

In the last few years, news of unexpected sinkholes swallowing cars, houses and people have made headlines with disturbingly high frequency....