[Source: NY Daily News via AEG Insider. Image: New York Daily News]
40 Foot Sinkhole in Tenn. Stadium Endzone
Available Resources
Ground penetrating radar being used to detect potential sinkholes around sewer pipes
When sewer pipes crack and leak, the surrounding ground becomes saturated and soil can migrate into the pipe and leave behind a void. Eventually this void can expand until it undermines the pavement or other […]
Geologic Hazards
Huge Sinkhole in Atacama Desert
A sinkhole approximately 32 meters in diameter and roughly 200 meters deep opened up in the Atacama Desert of Chile, near the Alcaparrosa copper mine at the beginning of August 2022. Anytime something like this […]
Failures
TVA Coal Ash Disaster
On December 22 of 2008, there was a massive failure of a fly ash landfill (tailings dam?) at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Kingston power plant. The failure caused a torrent of coal ash sludge […]