Sinkhole in Guatemala City

[johnastovall]

This astonishingly unnerving photograph was posted today on the Flickr.com feed of the Guatemalan goverment and shows a seemingly bottomless sinkhole that opened up on Sunday in Guatemala City as a swath of Central America was drenched by tropical storm Agatha.

[Dobick]

that looks very manmade.

perfectly round and only at the intersection. There is more to this than is being said. This looks more like a failed civil engineering project than a natural occurance, like possibly an infrastructure/under street sewage system failure or something

[Tom]

It is 330 feet deep. You could stack 2 statue of liberties foot to torch and the torch of the top one would still be in the hole.

[Dobick]

In reading a few of the links in the article, (the one on sinkholes in Florida) it basically says that water and limestone are a bad combination. From the very uniform size of the circle plus the combination of the depth, it would appear that this is a combination of a naturally occuring underground cavern combined with a failed man made structure of some sort.

At 330 feet -- how in the heck do you fix a hole like this?

[Hanky]

Damn Mayans!

[markfh]

Originally Posted by Thomas Campbell

It is 330 feet deep. You could stack 2 statue of liberties foot to torch and the torch of the top one would still be in the hole.

There are many sink holes throughout central America similar and larger that are all natural.

[Tim-in-TX]

Old lava tube?

[Carl Stone]

Originally Posted by Dobick

In reading a few of the links in the article, (the one on sinkholes in Florida) it basically says that water and limestone are a bad combination. From the very uniform size of the circle plus the combination of the depth, it would appear that this is a combination of a naturally occuring underground cavern combined with a failed man made structure of some sort.

At 330 feet -- how in the heck do you fix a hole like this?

Well, it looks like it has left hand threads too.

[johnastovall]

Originally Posted by markfh

There are many sink holes throughout central America similar and larger that are all natural.

We have a nice one right here in Texas,
Devil's Sinkhole State Natural Area

[Sonny]

HOLY MOTHER OF MARY! How in the heck do you back fill that bad boy?

[dbphotos]

Hmmm... how many yards of dirt and cement would that take?

[Hanky]

Originally Posted by Sonny

HOLY MOTHER OF MARY! How in the heck do you back fill that bad boy?

Fence it off, build a bridge over it and hope like hell that bats move in.
That's what I would want if it were in my back yard, the mosquitos are bad this year.

[Hogleg 44]

Originally Posted by Sonny

HOLY MOTHER OF MARY! How in the heck do you back fill that bad boy?

I suppose you could start with Tar Balls from the Louisiana coast.

[Sonny]

I have an idea! How about they build a similar structure like the Grand Canyon Skywalk over the sink hole and charge admission.

OK, nobody take my idea until I pitch it to the "mayor" of Guatemala City.

[Sonny]

***Breaking New***

Scientists suspect this to be the cause of the sinkhole