Monday, November 15, 2010

Giant German Sinkhole Swallows Garage











A large crater appeared overnight in a residential street in Schmalkalden, Germany. The cause is not yet clear

via Sinkhole in Schmalkalden | World news | guardian.co.uk.

One resident, Wolfgang Peter, said the deafening sound of the earth moving woke him up early in the morning. “First I heard the rushing of water, and then it sounded as if a dozen gravel trucks were being emptied,” Peter told the German newspaper Thuringer Allgemeine, according to Der Spiegel. … Jurgen Reinholz, a spokesman for the region of Thuringia, where Schmalkalden is located, told Der Spiegel he believed the cause of the sinkhole was likely a natural one and not related to excavations at a nearby salt mine.


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