Sinkhole Repair

The drama of sinkholes, in which the earth can suddenly collapse and swallow up houses, has captured the popular imagination recently, but the science is actually as simple as water and rock. Since a Florida man disappeared into a 30-foot sinkhole that opened beneath his bedroom, sinkholes around the world have been grabbing headlines. One [...]

MONTREAL – Two cars fell into a sinkhole that opened up Friday in a parking lot near Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport. The cars didn’t completely disappear — the nose of one of the cars slipped into the hole while the side of the other car was partially submerged. A spokesman for Montreal’s airport [...]

Florida is known as the Sunshine State, but living there has a dark side, as the family of Jeff Bush discovered when the 36-year-old man was killed after a sinkhole opened beneath his house last week.  Authorities are now reporting the development of a second sinkhole in Seffner, Fla., just 2 miles (3 kilometers) from [...]

Security guard Yang Jiabin was walking near the entrance of a building in Shenzhen when he falls into the 16 foot wide and 52 foot deep hole, the South China Morning Post.  Local residents had previously complained about tremors from the construction project, according to a report by the paper said.  The construction site is [...]