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November 2nd, 2010
10:24 AM ET
Giant sinkhole opens in Germany
Repairs are to begin Wednesday on a 65-foot-deep (20 meters) sinkhole that opened in the eastern German town of Schmalkalden on Monday, local authorities said.
The sinkhole, which measured more than 130 feet (40 meters) across, swallowed a car and forced the evacuation of 25 people in nine houses, the regional newspaper Thueringer-Allgemeine reported.
Officials told the paper more than 1,000 truckloads of gravel would be needed to fill the hole.
Residents reported hearing a loud roar as the earth gave way early Monday morning, according to the newspaper report. The cause of the sinkhole had not been determined.
Jürgen Reinholz, environment and agriculture minister for the state of Thuringia, said natural causes were suspected, according to Spiegel Online International.
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Jürgen Reinholz just announced that instead of gravel they will fill it up with water and finally give the community the pool they have ben asking for.
In France they call that a pension plan
Wouldn't it be prudent to figure out what caused the sinkhole, before filling it?
Obviously, YOU don't work for the government.
Harry,
You're right, it is necessary to know what caused the sinkhole before one fills it up, but unfortunately, that's rarely the case. I'm a geologist and I've seen too many incidences whereby people have ignored the underlying geological processes that trigger events like this, and they end up wondering why their solutions never work.
One example involved a sinkhole that formed in a city nearby where I lived. Now, where I live and where this occurred is in what's known as a karst environment...an area with soluble bedrock, like limestones and dolomites. Basically where a lot of caves and sinkholes forms as the bedrock is dissolved away. Well, the local government and civil engineers decided to fill the sinkhole up with gravel and dirt and patch it up. Well, fortunately, thus far, nothing bad has happened, but people often complain that when they drive over the area, they can feel the ground vibrate a little. I've not drove over there...I'm not brave enough. lol, but I think it'll only be a matter of time before something much larger opens up and it'll be interesting to see how they handle that.
I like Steve's answer, it also seems that the most recent sink whole's over the past year or so are @ a road.... were they have excavated and put in Storm and sewage sewers, water lines, and under grown wires.
Lisa – "under grown wires" – hmmm how about "under ground wires".
It was aliens. End of story.
BS. Nancy Pelosi was nowhere near Germany this week.
No, silly! Someone obviously googled 'google' and that caused a small black hole which made that whole part of the neighborhood disappear.
@Chad. Huh! what's your point.
Nice one Chad.
It was aliens, end of story.
The deficit has struck again : )
Here comes the Locust Horde.
Someone should really go down and see if they can find Mel Gibsons career
sweet!
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The author of the article said "swallowed". You said "someone should go down".
Beavis and Butthead return.
I live near this place and I can confirm, that the officials there found strong evidence that this whole is less probably caused by mining (because this area has never been active mining ground), but rather by an underground salt reservoir that got washed out by water. Over the years this must washed out the ground, thus leaving the whole that now everybody can observe.
"Hole, not "whole", unless you're talking about the whole hole, and not a part of the hole.....
Thanks for your observation. My son lives in Schmalkalden and I appreciate information from a local source. I do hope the city leaders get to the bottom of this event:)
@John: Can you have a part of a hole?
@ Jimmy: Sure thing.... if it's a donut hole.
John, let's see you write a sentence in German. I'll wait....
@John. It could be that the 'W' is silent
Didn't a similar sinkhole happen in Guatemala? What happens when these sinkholes meet? Who's a sinkhole? Are you a sinkhole?
Now you know where to find your peanut of a brain.
Wait. I thought this was supposed to be an article about the U.S. economy.
Now that's what I'd call 'optimism'
Dump the entire Senate and House into it, then fill it in with concrete.....something accomplished!
Mightn't be such a bad idea, but then who runs the country, the KKK??
Not unless the hole ends in Hell will it be deep enough for the House and Senate.
Yes, We Can!!
Perfect analogy to our economy. Sinkhole.
Shouldn't that person at least pull their car into the garage?
this is what happens when you cut down every tree.
a friend of mine who works for monsanto says they toss a handful of monsanto seeds onto farms and when the seeds spread they sue those farms for using monsanto seeds illegally. i just bought the stock.