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the earth's way of reminding you the ground was always optional
means A hole or depression formed when the ground surface collapses into a hollow space below, often where underground water has dissolved away soluble rock like limestone.
from A plain compound of English bones: "sink," from Old English "sincan" (to descend, settle, drop down), plus "hole." The verb "sink" goes back to a Germanic root shared with words like Dutch "zinken" and German "sinken." The literal sense is exactly what it says — a hole into which things sink — and it has long been used for places where water vanishes underground.
- silent killer
- Often forms invisibly underground for years before collapsing
- florida favorite
- Limestone bedrock makes the state a sinkhole hotspot
- world's deepest
- China's Xiaozhai Tiankeng plunges over 2,100 feet down
- swallows whole
- A 2013 Florida sinkhole consumed a sleeping man's bedroom
- ancient sacred
- Maya threw offerings into cenotes to appease gods
lake michigan sinkhole 2014 — 130-foot-deep hole opened on north avenue beach in chicago during winter storms
florida i-75 sinkhole 2013 — road collapsed near brooksville, swallowing a porsche and closing highway for weeks
guatemala city sinkhole 2010 — 66-foot-deep chasm suddenly opened in zone 2, swallowing a 3-story building and killing 2 people