There’s the public service in Japan – taking a gaping five lane-wide sinkhole in a metropolitan area and fixing it in less than a week.
Above is a timelapse video of the entire engineering feat, capturing the around-the-clock work undertaken.
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Compo Corner
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This morning.
Paul Caball writes;
Sinkhole on corner of Holles St/Grand Canal Street [Dublin 2]. Would throw myself in for the payout but too busy…
Undermined
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Shots taken yesterday from an airship of the giant, home-swallowing sinkhole that appeared this week above a potash mine at the town of Solikamsk near the Ural mountains in Russia.
Oh.
RTÉ reports:
A sinkhole has appeared in a field near Galmoy Mine in Co Kilkenny. The hole is 15m in circumference and 9m deep.
A girl who was suddenly swallowed by a sinkhole as she walked along a street in Xi’an, China was rescued after a passing taxi driver stopped his car and ran over to help.