Sinkhole: You have got to be $hitting me!!!

[Matt308]

Is this the most scary thing you have every seen in your life? Looks like something out of a Stephen King movie.
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In this photo released by Guatemala's Presidency on Monday May 31, 2010, a sinkhole covers a street intersection in downtown Guatemala City, Monday May 31, 2010. A day earlier authorities blamed the heavy rains caused by tropical storm Agatha as the cause of the crater that swallowed a a three-story building but now say they will be conducting further studies to determine the cause. Last April 2007, another giant sinkhole in the same area killed 3 people.(AP Photo/Guatemala's Presidency, Luis Echeverria)
10:40 p.m. ET, 4/7/10

 

[evangilder]

Holy crap!

 

[Velius]

I heard about this earlier. Looks strange to see that kind of hole there- almost unreal looking. I wonder how deep that is.

 

[ccheese]

Unreal !!

Charles

 

[vikingBerserker]

Imagine waking up to that in your front yard.

 

[RabidAlien]

Hmmmm...call me skeptical, but the sides of that hole look WAAAAAAAAAAY too perfect to be natural. Photoshop or something man-made, perhaps? Or one heck of a mole problem. Could be wrong though...wouldn't be the first time!

 

[GrauGeist]

What the...?

That looks like the result of a worm-hole out of a movie or something!

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

HOLY COW!!!!! What a hole!!!

 

[gumbyk]

I had the same thought, RA.
But Nat Geo have an article on one that occurred in 2007: Photo in the News: Giant Sinkhole Swallows Guatemala Homes

as well as this one: Sinkhole in Guatemala: Giant Could Get Even Bigger

so it looks legit, but weird.

 

[N4521U]

Is the Silver Surfer in the area? Any one seen him flyin around?

 

[imalko]

 

[RabidAlien]

Thanks for that, Gumbyk! So, looks legit. Daaaaaang!

That black spot at the bottom is way too abrupt to just be shadows forming, looks like the hole opens out into a cavern or something. I think I'd be packing my suitcase right about now, living above that monster!!!

 

[Gnomey]

Yeah, first thing I did was see if it was fake, it doesn't appear to be.

But f*ck that is a scary hole.

 

[Wayne Little]

Strewth!

 

[mudpuppy]

Anyone that's lived in the mountains around here knows there are sinkholes popping up from time to time due to the limestone caves underneath just collapsing...but it is a sink hole. It sinks, falls in...slowly. If its real quick it may drop a few feet in a day and then more over a week or two.
This monstrosity is not a sinkhole, even if they call it that. Hell's Elevator would be a more fitting name for this catastrophe.

I'd like to see some pics from a RC camera drone of the interior!
Derek

 

[Colin1]

This monstrosity is not a sinkhole...

I think the Silver Surfer was responsible...

 

[Lucky13]

That bl**dy thing makes my hair stand on my neck!

 

[Thorlifter]

That just looks so strange. I looks like God took a big drill and just dug a hole.

 

[timshatz]

That is really scary. Saw it yesterday and....

Questions:
1. How deep?
2. How much bigger (somebody already said probably a lot)?
3. How many more around (if there is a cavern)?
4. How fast can I get the hell out of dodge if I live in that neighborhood?

 

[Njaco]

I think I posted a pic of the 2007 hole in my "Amazing" pics thread. These things are real - real scary! Of course I can think of better areas for this to happen that Guatamala.