Interesting link - comprehensive map of sinkholes
This is yet another “interesting link” I posted to Cohost over a year ago. See this post for some information about what that was about and why it’s now here on my blog.
Explorable map of United States Sinkholes from late 2016 through 2019
This Google Maps map contains (I think) 77 different pins that link to news articles about sinkholes from a 2-3 year period.
Most of the sinkholes are fairly small or minor, or happily/easily resolved. This seems to be the norm of sinkhole experiences. Many are minor cavities created by leakage from water mains or sewer lines.
- Sinkhole Nearly Swallows Truck Along Figueroa In South LA
- WATCH: Body camera footage shows rescue of horse stuck in sinkhole
- Driver happy to be alive after sinkhole swallows pickup truck he was in
- Md. firefighters save dog that fell in sinkhole
There are a few extremely huge or strange or injurious ones here, though:
The large sinkhole that caved in a tunnel filled with radioactive waste at a sprawling Washington state nuclear waste repository may have gone unnoticed for days before its discovery because workers do not patrol tunnel sites daily, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Energy said Thursday.
Hanford Nuclear Reservation’s collapsed tunnel may have gone unnoticed
"You've got a low point in the roadway that appears to just have some water in it but when you get there all the sudden you fall into an eight feet deep hole that you didn't even know was there," said Sgt. Steve Krebs with the Colorado State Patrol.
Driver, 2 Firefighters Seriously Injured After Vehicles Fall Into Sinkhole
“It was kind of just this subtle but loud crack,” said Lane Castagna.
Giant sinkhole swallows six cars in Lancaster County parking lot
WLUC says that more than 60 sinkholes have been reported and multiple roads are impassable.
And finally, here's the smallest sinkhole I could find. The local paper seems to have reported on it almost as an act of irony:
The “depression,” as the city of Midland described it, is larger than a basketball and about 1 foot deep, but observations by Atmos Energy crewmembers, contractors and this reporter concluded the hole could have been much bigger.
This does not seem to have been maintained for very long and some of the links are broken, but it's a lot of sinkhole stories! I'm sure there's a bunch of good ones here I have not yet read.