Sinkholes form when underground rock, often limestone or dolomite, is eroded by acidic water. This erosion creates cavities ...

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a sinkhole is a depression in the ground that has no natural external surface drainage. They typically form when the ground beneath an area slowly ...

In the last four days the immediate Joplin area has received 6-7” of rain according to local measurements. That much water could cause grounds to shift ...

INDIANAPOLIS — North German Church Road, just south of East 21st Street on Indy's east side, was closed Sunday morning after a water main break caused a sinkhole to form. In a viewer-submitted photo, ...

The Kunkel tract is one of three possible sites on the high school campus. Excavators found 14 sinkholes when it was leveled ...

And caves form and caverns form, and when a cavern erodes all the way to the surface, it collapses and forms a sinkhole. The ones in Lake Huron, that is exactly what we’re seeing. We really haven’t ...

He had his previous home of three decades in Mount Washington condemned and demolished, after discovering it was built on top of a sinkhole. “No one told me anything,” Besednjak said. “I just thought ...

This is a sight many Pittsburghers will always remember. Monday marked five years since the infamous downtown Pittsburgh sinkhole partially engulfed a Port Authority bus along 10th Street.

Despite the National Government giving money to Merafong to repair sinkholes in Khutsong, some of the work was not done.

They say that sinkholes form when the ground surface is no longer supported by soil and factors like heavy rain, wastewater flow from broken sewer lines, or the weight of fast-moving vehicles ...

Initial findings suggest that the sinkhole by the roadside near a mall at Jalan Tun Jugah here may have been caused by a leak from a rain gutter downpipe connected to the mall’s car park, said Sarawak ...