The Gates of Hell Just Opened In Guatemala

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This sinkhole appeared last sunday in a street intersection of Ciudad de Guatemala.

A sinkhole is a natural depression caused by the removal of underground soil by water. Usually, it happens when the substrate is formed by limestone, carbonate rock, salt beds or any other rock that is easily eroded by water streams. The process could be slow, but sometimes the land just cracks open without notice. In this case, it happened suddenly, swallowing an entire house. The cause: Massive underground water torrents created by tropical storm Agatha.

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Sinkholes' size ranges from low terrain depressions to hundred of meters. Unlike the similar sinkhole that killed two teens in 2007. Some neighbors claim that a whole three-story building and a house fell into the hole.
Updated: The sinkhole swallowed a clothing factory. No deaths or injuries have been registered.

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Source: http://gizmodo.com/5551916/the-gates-of-hell-just-opened-in-guatemala
 
Saw this on Yahoo! like 4 days ago. Shocking when you think that it can suddenly come and just swallow you. ;_;
 
Yeah indeed, although this won't happen in Belgium, not many nature ramps can hit us.
 
I doubt it is close to hell being only a hundred feet deep anyways. And this is really old, happened like 8 days ago.
 
^ Well some people didn't know about it, and I just found out about it a little bit late.
 
How is he supposed to feel? There's a sinkhole in the city where his parents live, it isn't some sort of a personal tragedy to him lmao.
 
Andre said:
How is he supposed to feel? There's a sinkhole in the city where his parents live, it isn't some sort of a personal tragedy to him lmao.
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How do you know he doesn't have anything to say about it or something? Lol
 
GPow69 said:
Andre said:
How is he supposed to feel? There's a sinkhole in the city where his parents live, it isn't some sort of a personal tragedy to him lmao.
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How do you know he doesn't have anything to say about it or something? Lol
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I think they'll be like "Oh, it's just a hole in the middle of the city which just ate a part of a house. Nothing important." :troll:
 
In Poland there is a pretty big flood right now, but I don't care about it until it comes to my house and takes my PC.
 
Avalkiz said:
In Poland there is a pretty big flood right now, but I don't care about it until it comes to my house and takes my PC.
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That's the right attitude!
 
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