Huge sinkhole

[3mnkids]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37420998/ns/news-picture_stories/displaymode/1247/?beginSlide=1

A huge sinkhole caused by tropical storm Agatha, in Guatemala City, on Monday, May 31. A violent storm that whalloped Central America over the weekend killed more than 100 people and left a swath of destruction, officials said Monday. Tropical Storm Agatha, the first in a season of tempests that annually strikes the region, was especially brutal in Guatemala, where mudslides proved deadly.

Scary   

[Raffine]

Wow. Just - Wow.

Just released: a closeup of some survivors of the sinkhole:

[Jack]

Yikes!  I'm paranoid enough without worrying about the freakin' earth swallowing me up 

[Joe the Destroyer]

Come on.  You all know what caused that sinkhole.

[Doggett]

That is amazing. Scary but amazing.

[Allhallowsday]

Wow. Just - Wow.
Just released: a closeup of some survivors of the sinkhole:

That was STINKHOLE.

[indianasmith]

Can we throw Uwe Boll in it?

[Criswell]

Wow, that thing looks unreal. It almost looks fake but it's not.

[Shadow]

How long after the hole appeared did the Mole Man emerge from his subterranean domain with his army of Moloids, intent on conquering the surface world?

[Torgo]

[Pilgermann]

That's a scary sight!  I saw an image of that somewhere else online but thought it was a fake without reading anything about it.  I just read something on Discovery's site saying that it's not technically a sinkhole:

The lion's share of the city is built on pumice fill -- ash flows made up of loose, gravel-like particles deposited during ancient volcanic eruptions. In places, the debris is piled over 600 feet thick, filling up what would otherwise be a v-shaped valley of faulted bedrock. For those peering into the deep dark depths wondering what might be at the bottom, it's either more pumice fill or bedrock. Mixed with a healthy dose of wreckage from the swallowed-up clothing factory.

Something similar happened in Guatemala in '07.  The pumice fill gets washed away by waterflow from stuff like water runoff and whatnot.

[JPickettIII]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37420998/ns/news-picture_stories/displaymode/1247/?beginSlide=1

A huge sinkhole caused by tropical storm Agatha, in Guatemala City, on Monday, May 31. A violent storm that whalloped Central America over the weekend killed more than 100 people and left a swath of destruction, officials said Monday. Tropical Storm Agatha, the first in a season of tempests that annually strikes the region, was especially brutal in Guatemala, where mudslides proved deadly.

Scary   

Looks like something out of the Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer.

That is just damn scarry.