This is the moment when a huge sinkhole suddenly appears in a pavement, swallowing a pedestrian whole. A CCTV camera caught the incident as it unfolded in Recife, Pernambuco state, north-eastern Brazil on the morning of 5th September. Footage shows how the pedestrian takes a step with his left foot,…
This is the moment a shop owner talks on the phone outside his store and the ground collapses underfoot, sending a vending machine tumbling on him in the 20-foot sinkhole. The incident was filmed in the neighbourhood of Kadokoy in the north-western Turkish city of Istanbul, and the video has…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqmrTlpVUbc This is the moment a large building suddenly disappears in a gaping sinkhole that has been blamed on illegal mining in the area. Three houses collapsed in the sinkhole in the town of Zaruma in the southernmost Ecuadorian province of El Oro on the evening of 15th December. Christian…
This is the moment shocked residents film a huge sinkhole that swallowed an entire section of a main road in China. The sinkhole appeared on a main road in Yichuan County in the city of Luoyang in the Chinese province of Henan last week. According to local media, the collapse…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pth4GP3N7DM Two dogs that fell into a huge sinkhole in a Mexican field have been rescued. The sinkhole formed on farmland in the rural region of Santa Maria Zacatepec in the Mexican state of Puebala at the end of May, and the local Civil Protection authority urged residents to not…
