70 foot wide sinkhole behind house in China

Comment #14

temptustoo — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 07:53:56 GMT

that is what happens when you have a leaky faucet... LOL.. creates a sink hole.. heee heee..

Comment #13

JAP69 — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 05:38:19 GMT

I will go with the salt well or cavern theory also. With the sound of moving water down there hints to me of an underground stream or river. The roof of the cavern may have washed away enough to weaken it.

Comment #12

Tenaj — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:15:53 GMT

I'm going with the salt well explanation.

Comment #11

phileight — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:12:12 GMT

Sichuan province was once one of China's leading salt producers, from very deep wells, long before wells were cased. would like to know if this was an old salt well site?

Comment #10

time*treat — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:49:53 GMT

Yeah, and the burglar's family sues for wrongful death and wins ... like in the U.K.

Comment #9

joker17 — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:26:41 GMT

Dog is missing....no dinner tonight.....

Comment #8

Rick G — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:52:21 GMT

@time*treat: pity the prowler who fell into that hell-hole last night....and the neighbor is missing a dog...lol!

Comment #7

time*treat — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:03:29 GMT

How do you see something like that at 2am?

Comment #6

sully16 — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:03:51 GMT

maybe this will be a bigger eye opener.

Comment #5

Rick G — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:47:15 GMT

Wow, is that thing deep! Lots of perfectly round sinkholes showing up lately. Didn't realize Ma Nature did things so precisely. Is that the angels I hear? ;-)

Comment #4

joker17 — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:42:36 GMT

All they have to do now is to build a huge Wok and fit it into the hole. General Tso chicken for the whole town.....

Comment #3

MADDOG10 — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:37:32 GMT

Holy Sheite, talk about a swiming hole ?....

Comment #2

sully16 — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:33:58 GMT

wow,I wonder if they were digging a hole to America.

Comment #1

JAP69 — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:00:08 GMT

Pretty risky to be standing near the edge there. You go down un forget it.

Original Blog Entry: 70 foot wide sinkhole behind house in China

joker17 — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:29:50 GMT

17 January 2011, 11:03

A Chinese family had to leave their home after a giant sinkhole suddenly opened up in their backyard overnight.

The hole is nearly 70ft wide and nobody has so far even been able to measure how deep it is.

Zhang Fengrong, 58, of Leshan, Sichuan province, said he suddenly heard a roaring sound at 2am.

He stepped outside and was amazed to see the giant hole opening up, and getting closer and closer to his house.

At first, it was only 10ft wide, but witjhin 24 hours it had reached it's current size - and the family say they will lose their home if it gets any bigger.

Zhang said he had tried to measure the depth of the pit by letting down first a 130ft rope, then a 200ft rope, but they still hadn't reached the bottom.

We can hear the sound of water when we stand on the edge of the hole, but when we throw down stones we don't hear them land or splash, he added.

The family are temporarily living in two rooms offered by the village office, and neighbours have helped them move most of their belongings from the house.

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