1A giant sinkhole that swallowed several homes is seen in Guatemala City February 23, 2007. At least three people have been confirmed missing, officials said. REUTERS/Stringer
2Cars lie in a sinkhole, caused when a road collapsed into an underground cave system, in the southern Italian town of Gallipoli March 30, 2007. There were no injuries in the overnight incident, according to local police. REUTERS/Fabio Serino
3People look at a collapsed section of Shunwai Road in Nanchang, China's Jiangxi province, April 25, 2007. No one was injured in the accident and further investigations are underway, according to local media. Picture taken April 25, 2007. REUTERS/China Daily
4A view of the crater caused by a meteorite crash in the southern Peruvian town of Carangas, near the border with Bolivia, September 16, 2007. According to local radio reports, farmers living near the site have complained of headaches and nausea, which have prompted officials to send a medical team to the area. Picture taken in September 16, 2007. REUTERS/Miguel Carrasco/La Razon
5Members of a television crew stand near a hole in the Paseo Nuevo in San Sebastian March 12, 2008. The hole was caused by a storm on Thursday that sunk numerous boats and caused extensive damage in the Biscay area. REUTERS/Vincent West
6A sinkhole caused by recent rains is pictured in Guatemala City May 30, 2010. The remnants of Tropical Storm Agatha dumped more rain across Central America on Sunday after killing at least 17 people in the region, sparking fears of further mudslides in three countries. The hole, caused by rains from tropical storm Agatha, swallowed at least one three-story building. REUTERS/Rodrigo Arias
7A giant sinkhole caused by the rains of Tropical Storm Agatha is seen in Guatemala City May 31, 2010. More than 94,000 people have been evacuated as the storm buried homes under mud, swept away a highway bridge near Guatemala City and opened up sinkholes in the capital. REUTERS/Casa Presidencial/Handout
8A giant sinkhole caused by the rains of tropical storm Agatha is seen in Guatemala City June 1, 2010. Collapsed roads and highway bridges complicated rescue efforts in Guatemala on Tuesday after Tropical Storm Agatha drenched Central America, burying homes under mud and killing at least 175 people. REUTERS/Daniel LeClair
9Local residents look at a sinkhole near Qingquan primary school in Dachegnqiao town of Ningxiang, Hunan province June 15, 2010. The hole, 150 meters (492 feet) wide and 50 meters (164 feet) deep, has been growing since it first appeared in January and has destroyed 20 houses so far. No causalities has been reported and the reason for the appearance of the hole remains unclear, local media reported. REUTERS/Stringer
10General view of damage in the town centre June 16, 2010 after floods by Le Real River in Les Arcs sur Argens, south eastern France, the day after unusually heavy rains that hit the region and caused the river to overflow. Flash floods caused by torrential rain killed 19 people and left 7 missing near France's Mediterranean coast, local officials said on Wednesday. More than 350 mm (14 inches) of rain fell on the Var department in southern France in a few hours on Tuesday. REUTERS/Sebastien Nogier
11Craters from a U.S. bomb strike pock the landscape in the village of Khosrow Sofla in the Arghandab Valley, north of Kandahar April 11, 2011. After determining that the village was being used as a Taliban base for producing homemade explosive materials and was devoid of civilian population, U.S. war planes destroyed most of the buildings in Khosrow Sofla on October 6, 2010, a U.S. Army official said. Picture taken April 11, 2011. REUTERS/Bob Strong
12A crater, which the Libyan government said was caused by coalition air strikes, is seen at an area in Bab al-Aziziyah compound in Tripoli May 12, 2011. Libyan officials, who showed reporters around the scene of the air strike, at Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziyah compound, said three people were killed and 25 wounded. REUTERS/Louafi Larbi
13A truck is seen in a hole after part of the structure of a bridge collapsed into a river in Changchun, Jilin province May 29, 2011. Two truck passengers were injured, while the cause of the accident is still under investigation, local media reported. Picture taken May 29, 2011. REUTERS/China Daily
14Workers carry out repairs near a hole created after part of the structure of a bridge collapsed in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province July 15, 2011. A cave-in, which caused a 20-meter long, 1-meter wide pit on No. 3 Qiantang River Bridge in east China's Hangzhou city on Friday morning, left at least a truck driver injured and closed down a pivotal road bridge, police and witnesses said. A truck loaded with steel plates fell off the bridge but its driver jumped out before it crashed onto the ground, Xinhua News Agency reported. REUTERS/China Daily
15A sinkhole appears on a road after floods in Hyderabad city, the capital of the the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, August 25, 2000. Helicopters plucked people from flooded apartments in the inundated south Indian city of Hyderabad on Friday as the number of people killed by the heaviest rains in more than 40 years rose to 93.
16Rescue workers remove a bus with a crane from a Lisbon street hole November 25, 2003. The bus was parked on a Lisbon street when the ground began to open up and gobble it. No casualties were registed. REUTERS/Jose Manuel Ribeiro
17A cave-in on the Shouyang section of an expressway linking the capitals of Hebei and Shanxi provinces in North China brought traffic to a standstill, March 28, 2006. A 100-metre-long crater, 10 metres wide and 10 metres deep, was created on the Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan Highway. No one was injured and it was not clear what caused the damage. Picture taken March 28, 2006. CHINA OUT REUTERS/China Daily
18Palestinians look at destroyed tunnels after an Israeli air strike on the Gaza-Egypt frontier in the southern Gaza Strip December 31, 2008. Israeli aircraft carried out only two strikes in the Gaza Strip early on Wednesday, targeting smuggling tunnels on the Gaza-Egypt frontier and Hamas government offices in Gaza City, an Israeli military spokesman said. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
19An aerial view shows the debris of a residential building and a destroyed road in the village of Nachterstedt, July 18, 2009. Three residents were missing in the eastern German village of Nachterstedt after their lakeside home and another building suddenly collapsed early Saturday into the water. A 350-metre stretch of shoreline gave way next to an old open-cast coalmine converted to a lake, about 170 kilometres south-west of Berlin. REUTERS/Handout/Gemeindeverwaltung Nachterstedt
20Policemen check a collapsed section of a crossroad in Hefei, Anhui province August 8, 2009. A taxi and a few motorbikes fell into the hole, local media reported. REUTERS/China Daily |