The effort to find the body of a man who was swallowed by a sinkhole under his Florida home was called off Saturday and crews planned to begin demolishing the four-bedroom house.
A Florida man screamed for help and disappeared as a large sinkhole opened under the bedroom of a house, his brother said Friday.
Three sinkholes, which can entomb two-story houses, appeared in a remote village here, a day after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake shook Eastern Visayas on Friday.
BARILI Mayor Teresito Mariñas also wants the sinkhole in their town studied.
The Mantayupan Falls now looks like a dry cliff after water that used to cascade from it has disappeared. The drying up of the town’s tourist destination occurred after most of the water from the Mantayupan River was sucked by a sinkhole that was reported on July 11.
Another sinkhole was found in Dalaguete town in southern Cebu while a 20-meter crack was reported near a school in Ginatilan town, days after the 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit the islands of Cebu and Negros on February 6.
Another sinkhole, which might have been triggered by a strong earthquake that struck Central and Western Visayas on February, was reported in Dalaguete town, 85 kilometers south of this city.
BEFORE taking another step, Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama wants to validate reports about the presence of whale sharks in the city’s coastal areas.
IF the sinkhole found in a farm in barangay Cambuang, Dumanjug town, stops widening, it can be used as a well due to the presence of water in the area.
There’s no immediate danger for residents living near a sinkhole in sitio Baclayan, barangay Cambuang in Dumanjug town, geologists yesterday.
THE 6.9-magnitude earthquake and the spate of heavy rains that hit Cebu in the past few days created the sinkhole found in a farm in barangay Cambuang, Dumanjug town.
People should stay away from the new sinkhole in a farm in Dumanjug town because the soil may “cave in” anytime.
Residents of a village here expressed alarm over a sinkhole that formed after an explosion, reviving tension in a community that is still nervous following an intensity 6.9 earthquake recently.
