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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!(July 12) -- For the second time in two months, the ground has suddenly opened up and claimed a prize. Residents of a Tampa, Fla., condominium complex were evacuated from their homes on Sunday after a 20-foot-wide sinkhole appeared in a parking lot, taking a Toyota Camry along with it. Eleven families at the Bordeaux Village Condominiums have been forced to relocate as crews work on stabilizing the growing hole, the St. Petersburg Times reported. As Surge Desk's Carl Franzen reported after a massive sinkhole swallowed an apartment building in Guatemala, sinkholes are fairly common both ...
Could the giant, 60-feet wide, 30-story-deep sinkhole that has already swallowed a building and claimed the life of at least one man in Guatemala City be increasing in size and appetite? That's the theory posited by at least one expert, Dr. James Currens, a hydrogeologist from the University of Kentucky who was interviewed on Tuesday by National Geographic. According to Currens, "depending on the makeup of the subsurface layer, the Guatemala sinkhole 'could eventually enlarge and take in more buildings.'" The phenomenon of rapidly growing sinkholes is well documented, but the Guatemala case ...
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