Thursday, October 1, 2015

2015 - SEP - Land Subsidence




2015-09-01 - Sinkhole opens and traps worker in Kelowna (Canada):
http://kelowna.myezrock.com/News/Kelowna/2015/09/01/sinkhole-traps-kelowna-worker

2015-09-02 - Sinkhole opens near homes in Moline (Illinois):
http://www.qconline.com/news/local/work-to-begin-on-sinkhole-between-two-moline-homes/article_d1ca4e1f-2b3c-5be5-a205-ec0b5a9e180d.html

2015-09-02 - Sinkhole opens on road in Twin Falls (Idaho):
http://magicvalley.com/news/local/sinkhole-blocks-access-to-centennial-park/article_3f4fa092-a63d-558a-856f-fc61c70a5ff2.html

2015-09-03 - Monumental sinkhole keeps growing at town in the Urals (Russia):
http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/n0388-the-crater-that-keeps-swallowing-up-houses/
http://sputniknews.com/russia/20150903/1026545792/russia-urals-sinkhole-growth.html
http://www.sott.net/article/301077-Sliding-into-the-abyss-Giant-sinkhole-in-Russian-Urals-keeps-growing
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/arts_n_ideas/news/article/sinkhole-at-russian-potash-mine-becomes-gigantic/529307.html

Quote: "A sinkhole near one of the mines in Russia’s Ural Mountains has grown in size at least fivefold since it was first reported last November; the huge abyss keeps swallowing up nearby summer cottages and shows no signs that it will stop getting bigger."

2015-09-03 - Another sinkhole opens on Mancunian Way in Manchester (Britain):
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/second-sinkhole-appears-manchester-yards-6368476
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/a-second-sinkhole-has-appeared-in-manchester-10482691.html
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/second-sinkhole-mancunian-way-manchester-9976613
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/third-sinkhole-opens-up-greater-6374738

2015-09-03 - Sinkhole opens on street in West Lincoln (Canada):
http://www.niagarathisweek.com/news-story/5824471-sinkhole-closes-hwy-20-in-west-lincoln/
http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2015/09/02/sinkhole-closes-road
http://www.610cktb.com/news/2015/09/02/update-sinkhole-closes-section-of-rr-20
http://www.bulletnewsniagara.ca/index.php?p=Sections&id=5433

2015-09-03 - Sinkhole opens on street in Continental (Ohio):
http://wfin.com/sinkhole-discovered-in-putnam-county-village/

2015-09-04 - Sinkholes causing serious problems at airport in McMinn County (Tennessee):
http://www.newschannel9.com/news/top-stories/stories/mcminn-county-dealing-sinking-feeling-at-its-airport-20095.shtml

2015-09-04 - Massive 500,000-pound rock threatening to collapse and damage dam near Flagstaff (Arizona):
http://news.yahoo.com/rock-threatening-crash-down-arizona-dam-155853245.html

2015-09-05 - Large sinkhole opens at Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge (Texas):
http://www.kxii.com/home/headlines/Sinkhole-at-Hagerman-Wildlife-Refuge--324852651.html
http://www.sott.net/article/301222-Large-sinkhole-stops-traffic-at-Texas-wildlife-refuge

2015-09-05 - Sinkhole opens on street in Greensboro (North Carolina):
http://www.greensboro.com/news/local_news/all-lanes-of-east-bessemer-avenue-open-update/article_c78e59d0-4c6a-544d-9e50-3c2b19dddfb8.html

2015-09-07 - Huge sinkhole forms near Sturgeon Creek in Winnipeg (Canada):
http://www.winnipegsun.com/2015/09/07/sinking-feeling-on-ness-avenue
http://globalnews.ca/news/2206822/city-engineers-will-meet-tuesday-to-plan-repairs-for-huge-sinkhole/

2015-09-08 - Landslide hits Tougnifili (Guinea), 7 killed, 12 injured:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=LS-20150909-50013-GIN

2015-09-08 - Sinkhole opens on road in Edinburg (Virginia):
http://www.whsv.com/home/headlines/Sinkhole-Closes-Route-11-Lane-in-Edinburg-325737531.html

2015-09-09 - Sinkhole opens on street in Jackson (Mississippi):
http://www.wapt.com/news/central-mississippi/jackson/sinkhole-opens-up-in-jackson/35166438

2015-09-09 - Sinkhole opens on street in Travelers Rest (South Carolina):
http://www.wmbfnews.com/story/29995184/deputies-sinkhole-causing-traffic-issues-in-tr

2015-09-10 - Huge sinkhole opens, car goes in, in Lanzhou (China):
http://in.finance.yahoo.com/photos/humpback-whales-at-the-uramba-bahia-malaga-natural-park-slideshow/workers-look-car-stranded-sinkhole-street-lanzhou-photo-100010745.html

2015-09-10 - Sinkhole opens on street, traps pickup, near museum in Houston (Texas):
http://www.khou.com/story/news/traffic/2015/09/10/pickup-gets-stuck-in-large-sinkhole-near-museum-district/71991096/
http://www.houstonlocal.news/sinkhole-opens-under-pickup-truck-near-medical-center/7927
http://www.chron.com/houston/article/Sink-hole-swallows-pickup-6495360.php
http://www.scoopnest.com/user/KHOU/641910495323271168

2015-09-10 - Sinkhole opens on street, partially swallows heavy truck, in coastal Hong Kong (China):
http://hongkong.coconuts.co/2015/09/10/5-metre-wide-sinkhole-almost-swallows-lorry-worker-rescued
http://www.sott.net/article/301469-Five-metre-deep-sinkhole-almost-swallows-lorry-worker-rescued-Hong-Kong

2015-09-11 - Sinkhole opens in Bluff City (South Carolina), car goes in, woman killed:
http://www.wcyb.com/news/car-in-sinkhole-in-bluff-city/35227276
http://www.heraldcourier.com/news/car-falls-in-bluff-city-sinkhole/article_7a676a2a-58cc-11e5-bf3d-2bd066ad624c.html

2015-09-13 - Sinkhole continues growing in parking lot in Weatherford (Oklahoma):
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/state/sinkhole-threatens-old-car-dealership-in-weatherford/article_57481dbf-eb15-552e-9765-84895ad4c8d6.html

2015-09-14 - Huge sinkhole opens again on Mancunian Way in Manchester (Britain):
http://www.key103.co.uk/localnews/mancunian-way-sinkhole-is-expanding/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/manchester-road-hit-sinkhole-closes-6446780
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/mancunian-way-closed-after-sinkhole-10059032
http://www.itv.com/news/granada/2015-09-15/mancunian-way-road-closed-after-huge-sinkhole-expands-during-repair-work/
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breakingnews/offbeat/road-closed-as-mancunian-way-sinkhole-reappears-31529196.html
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/road-closed-as-mancunian-way-sinkhole-reappears/ar-AAejD8i
http://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-press-and-journal-inverness/20150916/281870117226648/TextView

Note: The sinkhole that wouldn't die!

2015-09-15 - Sinkhole opens in parking lot, traps garbage truck, in coastal Brooklyn (New York):
http://nypost.com/2015/09/15/sanitation-truck-gets-stuck-in-sinkhole-on-parking-deck/
http://abc7ny.com/news/truck-stuck-in-hole-as-officials-debate-how-to-remove-it/985079/
http://ditmasparkcorner.com/blog/crime/garbage-truck-stuck-in-sinkhole-in-flatbush-parking-lot
http://abc7ny.com/news/truck-falling-into-sinkhole-in-flatbush/985079/
http://www.sott.net/article/301845-Truck-falls-into-sinkhole-in-Brooklyn-New-York

2015-09-15 - Sinkhole opens along the Canyon Springs Grade near Twin Falls (Idaho):
http://newsradio1310.com/second-sinkhole-forms-below-canyon-grade/

2015-09-16 - Drone film gives terrifying glimpse of massive and growing sinkhole in northeast Russia:
https://www.rt.com/news/315493-russian-crater-sinkhole-drone/
http://www.sott.net/article/302020-Drone-film-gives-terrifying-glimpse-of-growing-sinkhole-in-northeast-Russia

Note: I hope nobody is living in that house right on the edge of that giant crater...

2015-09-17 - Two sinkholes open along road in Steinhatchee (Florida):
http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/More-Sinkholes-Open-in-Taylor-County-327874621.html

2015-09-20 - Huge sinkhole opens up on road in Brentwood (Britain):
http://www.sott.net/article/302292-Huge-sinkhole-opens-up-on-road-in-Brentwood-UK
http://www.brentwoodgazette.co.uk/Sinkhole-appears-Ongar-Road-Brentwood-roadworks/story-27833947-detail/story.html

2015-09-20 - Part of mountain collapses and causes landslide, buildings damaged, in Mecca (Saudi Arabia), 2 injured:
http://www.hoteliermiddleeast.com/24806-makkah-mountain-collapses-causing-landslide/

2015-09-21 - Parking lot suddenly collapses in coastal Haikou (China):
http://www.scoopnest.com/user/bbcweather/645962702146433024
http://strangesounds.org/2015/09/parking-lot-collapse-haikou-china-sinkhole-landslide.html
http://www.sott.net/article/302473-Huge-sinkhole-opens-up-in-Haikou-China

2015-09-21 - Sinkhole opens on Route 28 in Salem (New Hampshire):
http://www.wmur.com/news/sinkhole-opens-up-on-route-28-in-salem/35399484
http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/30081928/sinkhole-opens-on-rt-28-in-salem-nh
http://myinforms.com/en-us/a/16720181-sinkhole-opens-up-on-route-28-in-salem/
http://www.eagletribune.com/news/new_hampshire/sinkhole-slows-traffic-on-route-in-salem-n-h/article_7c8f2211-ad02-5de5-b1ff-2f1538c5e550.html

2015-09-22 - Sinkhole opens on street in Melton (Britain):
http://www.meltontimes.co.uk/news/business/business-news/mystery-sinkhole-appears-in-melton-street-1-6968674

2015-09-23 - Sinkhole opens at airport on the island of Rhodes (Greece), people stuck:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brit-holidaymakers-trapped-greek-airport-6498078
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/607369/Greece-travel-chaos-Rhodes-Airport-sinkhole-delays
http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/72362772/runway-sinkhole-causes-delays-at-greek-airport
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/wedding-party-stranded-overnight-greek-10118679
http://www.scoopnest.com/user/MENnewsdesk/646686489833807872

Quote: "Planes have been unable to land or take off from the island of Rhodes after a hole emerged on the tarmac..."

2015-09-23 - Sinkhole opens on street in Union Township (Ohio):
http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/clermont-county/mt-carmel-tobasco-road-sinkhole-repaired
http://www.fox19.com/story/30095374/union-township-sinkhole-temporarily-covered
http://www.wlwt.com/news/emergency-repairs-made-on-clermont-co-road-after-video-of-large-hole-surfaces/35419766

2015-09-24 - Sinkhole closes Huffs Island Park in Pine Bluff (Arkansas):
http://www.thv11.com/story/news/local/pine-bluff/2015/09/24/sinkhole-closes-huffs-island-park-in-pine-bluff/72754020/

2015-09-25 - Sinkhole opens beneath home, home condemned, in Mountain View (Utah):
http://www.moabsunnews.com/news/article_3cab8cd2-62ce-11e5-8c31-f3614bf1b724.html

Quote: "Lifelong Moab resident Phillip Mosher was enjoying a Sunday afternoon on the flagstone patio of his Doc Allen Drive home when the leg of his chair suddenly disappeared into the ground. 'I picked up the chair to look down into the hole and it just kept going,' Mosher said. 'I've never seen anything like this in Utah.'"

2015-09-25 - Sinkhole opens on Highway 401 in Kingston, Ontario (Canada):
http://www.kingstonregion.com/news-story/5931925-sinkhole-closes-highway-401-near-joyceville-road/
http://www.sott.net/article/302693-Sinkhole-causes-traffic-delays-on-Highway-401-in-Kingston-Ontario

2015-09-25 - Road subsiding in Blackley (Britain):
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/another-sinkhole-council-investigate-claims-10126231

2015-09-26 - Huge sinkhole opens and swallows car, caravan and RV trailer near beach in coastal Inskip Point (Australia):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=LS-20150927-50263-AUS
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-27/major-sinkhole-swallows-vehicles-on-qld-coast/6807536
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/27/sinkhole-swallows-car-and-caravan-at-queenslands-inskip-point-campsite
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/car-and-caravan-in-sinkhole-at-qld-beach/story-fni0xqi4-1227545675953
http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/car-and-caravan-in-sinkhole-at-qld-beach/story-e6frfku9-1227545675953
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1217203/Giant-sinkhole-swallows-car-caravan-camping-trailer.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/72452439/Giant-sinkhole-swallows-vehicles-at-Queensland-camp-ground
http://www.sott.net/article/302726-Sinkhole-swallows-vehicles-at-Queensland-camp-ground
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11519765
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.co.nz/2015/09/sinkhole-in-queensland.html

Quote: "A camper at a popular Queensland beach has described the terrifying speed with which a sinkhole swallowed a car, caravan and camping trailer. The 150-by-50 metre sinkhole opened up at the Inskip Point camping area near Rainbow Beach about 11pm on Saturday. Authorities say the hole is now three metres deep and takes in a large part of the MV Beagle camp site."

Quote: "One camper, Melanie Wotherspoon, described the experience in a Facebook post. 'Yep, can’t believe we made it out,' she wrote. 'I thought we were goners for sure, was truly scary how fast it came into our campsite and swallowed it up.'"

Quote: "Holiday-maker Casey Hughes told ABC the sinkhole 'sounded like a thunder noise' as it opened up."

Note: A large chunk of land slid into the ocean in 2013 at coastal Whidbey Island (Washington), mentioned in the 2013-03-27 update. Three mysterious water-spewing sinkholes have formed at a beach in coastal Exmouth (Britain), last mentioned in the 2015-08-10 update. All around the planet, methane clathrate deposits are located along coasts, as shown in these maps. In some cases, erosion has covered parts of some of these deposits with land over the ages. As those coastal methane clathrate deposits dissociate (melt), they transform from a solid (of a sort) into water and methane gas, and then the land above or nearby may subside or slough off into the ocean. Is that what happened at Whidbey Island, in Exmouth in Britain and/or here on the coast in Australia? I don't know, but events like these are certainly worth paying attention to.

Another concern as the coastal clathrates melt is that methane is an explosively flammable gas, and if enough of it bubbles out of the sea and the wind carries it onto the coast, then fires and explosions are apt to be a problem. There have already been numerous coastal infernos and explosions, some monumental, and this surely has something to do with methane and hydrogen sulfide blowing ashore.

So, things to look for and especially near coasts: extraordinary fires and explosions, land subsidence, strange odors like the foul smell that recently hit coastal Staten Island (New York), mentioned in the 2015-08-28 update, and anomalous deaths of both animals and people...

2015-09-26 - Landslide hits the island of Sri Lanka, some homes destroyed, 6 people killed:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=LS-20150926-50245-LKA
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/09/26/430806/SriLanka-landslide-Central-Province-
http://www.sott.net/article/302718-Landslide-in-Sri-Lanka-kills-seven-in-Central-Province

2015-09-27 - Sinkhole opens on West Friendly Avenue in Greensboro (North Carolina):
http://www.greensboro.com/news/local_news/sinkhole-opens-on-west-friendly-avenue-updated/article_047290d6-4de6-5187-8e5b-68882a4775b8.html

2015-09-28 - Rockslide damages Walmart in Breathitt County (Kentucky):
http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Breathitt-Co-Walmart-closed-after-being-pounded-by-rockslide--329743111.html

2015-09-29 - Huge sinkhole eats section of highway in coastal Melbourne (Australia):
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3252934/Sinkhole-Melbourne-swallows-three-road-lanes-Caulfield-North.html
http://www.sott.net/article/302849-Huge-sinkhole-opens-up-across-3-lanes-of-road-in-Melbourne-Australia
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-29/road-closed-in-melbournes-south-east-after-sinkhole/6812780
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/sinkhole-swallows-three-road-lanes-on-busy-caulfield-road-20150928-gjwx4l.html

Quote: "A burst water main has opened up a sinkhole on a busy Melbourne road..."

Note: Or did a sinkhole opening up cause the water main to crack and rupture? No way to know...

2015-09-29 - Hillside and parking lot collapse in Boone (North Carolina):
http://www.wbtv.com/story/30133186/homeless-vet-barely-escapes-when-rain-causes-boone-hillside-parking-lot-collapse

2015-09-29 - Sewer line breaks, sinkhole forms, in coastal Palmetto (Florida):
http://www.bradenton.com/2015/09/28/6015129_sinkhole-partially-closes-road.html?rh=1

2015-09-29 - Building collapses in Guntur (India), 2 killed:
http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/two-of-family-killed-in-building-collapse-115092900480_1.html
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/death-toll-in-building-collapse-in-guntur/article7701196.ece
http://ipresspage.com/news/two-killed-in-building-collapse-in-guntur

2015-09-30 - Large sinkhole closes Blair Road in Falls Church (Virginia):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dr-gridlock/wp/2015/09/30/large-sinkhole-closes-road-in-falls-church-area/

2015-09-30 - Sinkhole opens on street in Enid (Oklahoma):
http://www.enidnews.com/sinkhole-hazard-causing/article_f56b4438-66c5-11e5-af31-cbf90fa6d4d7.html
http://www.enidnews.com/news/update-city-investigating-cause-of-sinkhole/article_f56b4438-66c5-11e5-af31-cbf90fa6d4d7.html

2015-09-30 - Sinkhole opens on road in Citrus County (Florida):
http://www.tbo.com/news/traffic/possible-sinkhole-closes-nb-us-19-in-citrus-county-20150929/
http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-citrus-hernando/possible-sinkhole-forms-off-us-19-in-citrus-co

2015-09-30 - Sinkhole opens on road in Sullivan County (Tennessee):
http://wjhl.com/2015/09/30/20-foot-sinkhole-found-in-sullivan-county/

2015-09-30 - Ground subsides, magnitude 3.1 earthquake hits Groningen Province (Netherlands):
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2015/10/groningen-hit-by-strongest-earthquake-this-year/
http://www.sott.net/article/303044-Strongest-earthquake-this-year-recorded-for-Groningen-Netherlands

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