telling it straight User ID: 642221 United States 06/11/2010 01:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Sudden Sinkhole Outbreak Raises Fear in China Mysteriously, sinkholes are appearing in places they've never happened before. Why? Are they tied to the seismic activity and volcanos?
Sudden Sinkhole Outbreak Raises Fear in China
By Li Hui Epoch Times Staff Created: Jun 7, 2010 Last Updated: Jun 7, 2010
Chinese workers inspect a sinkhole in a street in Beijing on Feb. 8. Sinkholes are known geological phenomena that usually occur predominantly in areas that have been heavily mined or on reclaimed land. (AFP/Getty Images ) While the Guatemalans are wondering if the giant sinkhole formed on June 1 in their capital city is an isolated case, on the other side of the globe, the Chinese have discovered at least eight sinkholes that suddenly formed in the past two weeks across their country, and many more have appeared during the past two months.
The latest known sinkhole formed at 12:25 a.m. Beijing time on June 4, in the middle of a freeway in Zhejiang Province on the nation’s eastern coast. The sinkhole measured 20 feet deep and 27 feet wide.
A sinkhole occurred on June 4 on a freeway in China's Zhejiang Province. (Photographer name withheld by request) The hole occurred when a light truck drove over the spot. The truck rolled over when its rear wheels were caught at the edge of the hole. The slightly injured driver climbed out and stopped traffic when he saw the giant hole. Police arrived within 10 minutes and blocked the road.
A spokesperson for the local freeway management office said experts on site suspected that the sudden collapse of an underground karst cave created by eroded limestone caused the sinkhole, but the investigation is ongoing.
Later the same day, about 300 miles west in Nanchang City, capital Jiangxi Province, a moving car was trapped when a hole about the size of the car suddenly opened up on a main road.
On June 3, four huge sinkholes opened up in Guangxi Province where a torrential storm was raging. According to Chinese state media reports, more than 600 villagers had to be evacuated because of them.
Three smaller holes were found between May 27 and May 30 in southwestern Sichuan Province, less than 80 miles from the Wenchuan epicenter of the deadly May 2008 Sichuan earthquake that killed approximately 80,000 people.
In Yibin City about 260 miles from the earthquake’s epicenter, 26 larger sinkholes have formed since April 27. Prelude to Disaster?
The outbreak of sinkholes has struck fear in Chinese people. Though reports in official media always quote “experts” that conclude such holes are not warning signs of another major earthquake, people have little trust in such comments.
Online bloggers posted footage of similar alleged expert reassurances aired on local TV news channels shortly before the Sichuan earthquake. They are criticizing such assertions as no more than authorities’ tricks to maintain so-called social stability.
“What I hate most of the ‘experts’ on TV who confidently promise everything is OK,” wrote one blogger. “They’re saying this only because the government told them to.”
Many other bloggers joked that when the media start to refute earthquake rumors, it is time to pack up and leave because an earthquake is surely around the corner.
Having little trust in the regime's official reports, Chinese are now increasingly wary of abnormalities such as the appearance of large herds of toads or snakes, or clouds of unusual colors or shapes, and pay serious attention to any disaster warnings on blog sites.
Sinking government credibility and all too fresh memories of a series of recent disasters are causing Chinese society to become easily agitated. This February, the mere rumor of an earthquake scared tens of thousands of citizens in Taiyuan City in Shanxi Province out of their homes and into the streets to spend the night. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 642221 United States 06/11/2010 01:23 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Sudden Sinkhole Outbreak Raises Fear in China |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 999612 Thailand 06/11/2010 01:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Sudden Sinkhole Outbreak Raises Fear in China While the Guatemalans are wondering if the giant sinkhole formed on June 1 in their capital city is an isolated case, on the other side of the globe, the Chinese have discovered at least eight sinkholes that suddenly formed in the past two weeks across their country, and many more have appeared during the past two months.
...there is some scary, freaky stuff happening with these sinkholes thats FOR SURE!!! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 999613 United States 06/11/2010 01:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Sudden Sinkhole Outbreak Raises Fear in China +1 for Epoch Times. Only stories coming out of China not being edited by the CCP! Thanks OP. |
Dr. House
User ID: 717743 United States 06/11/2010 06:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Sudden Sinkhole Outbreak Raises Fear in China worth a Sinkhole list: Thread: Sinkholes Updated 28 Dec 2010 find a sinkhole, add it to this thread, please. "Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him." (1 John 3:15, NKJV). |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 999767 Australia 06/11/2010 06:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Sudden Sinkhole Outbreak Raises Fear in China CERN |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 999772 Finland 06/11/2010 06:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Sudden Sinkhole Outbreak Raises Fear in China In Yibin City about 260 miles from the earthquake’s epicenter, 26 larger sinkholes have formed since April 27. [ link to www.theepochtimes.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 999546 United States 06/11/2010 06:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Sudden Sinkhole Outbreak Raises Fear in China oh noes, not sinkholes anything but sinkholes!!!! |
<<LOOK`n thru YOU>>
User ID: 922574 United States 06/11/2010 06:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Sudden Sinkhole Outbreak Raises Fear in China Mysteriously, sinkholes are appearing in places they've never happened before. Why? Are they tied to the seismic activity and volcanos? <quote> Uh--it`s obvious sinkholes will happen in places they never have before...I`ve never heard of a sinkhole in a sinkhole..lol..sinkholes are caused by water..plain and simple Last Edited by <<LOOK`n thru YOU>> on 06/11/2010 06:21 AM |
Haile Menelik
User ID: 341042 Netherlands 06/11/2010 06:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Sudden Sinkhole Outbreak Raises Fear in China Total doom is coming! It must have to do with CERN or aliens that did this! Marcus 11: 22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. |
Looky
User ID: 999153 United States 06/11/2010 06:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Sudden Sinkhole Outbreak Raises Fear in China In Yibin City about 260 miles from the earthquake’s epicenter, 26 larger sinkholes have formed since April 27. Prelude to Disaster?
Quoting: telling it straight 642221 ‘When Walter Cronkite passes within three hundred thirty three days a great catastrophe will befall the Chinese people’. ‘When this catastrophe happens it will mark the beginning of Mother Earth’s vengeance upon the evils of mankind’. Thread: Walter Cronkite’s death is a time marker for cataclysmic events soon to follow! :Looky Kermit:The space between mass is reality. Not the mass itself.- His Royal Dudeness 8/9/10:Looky Kermit:
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 998320 United States 06/15/2010 10:13 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Sudden Sinkhole Outbreak Raises Fear in China This is amazing. It's like the earth is doing some major rearranging. |