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A man inspects a sinkhole formed in a house this week in the north of Guatemala City. When neighbours heard the loud boom overnight they thought a cooking gas canister had detonated



Taichung, Taiwan, 1999: A man looks at an earthquake-opened sinkhole filled with molasses spilled from nearby storage tanks



Lighthouse Reef System, Belize, 2000: The Blue Hole is a karst-eroded sinkhole, the result of the repeated collapses of a cave system formed during lower sea level stands



Orlando, US, 2002: Emergency personnel stand by a giant sinkhole that opened up inside the Woodhill Apartment complex, forcing dozens of residents to evacuate their apartments



New York, US, 2006: A Ford Explorer sits nose-first inside a 15ft by 20ft-wide sinkhole in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn



La Jolla, US, 2007: A massive sinkhole in the Mount Soledad neighbourhood



Guatemala City, Guatemala, 2007: A giant sinkhole, 150 metres deep and 20 metres wide, in the neighbourhood of San Antonio. The sink hole swallowed close to twenty homes and left three people missing



Jordan, 2008: A sinkhole near the Ein Gedi Spa on the shores of the Dead Sea



Picher, US, 2008: Years of lead and zinc mining turned the town into a superfund site with sinkholes, lead-laced mountains of rock, and tainted water



Texas, US, 2009: The Devil's Sinkhole, with people gathered to view bats



Beijing, China, 2010: Workers inspect a sinkhole



Guatemala City, Guatemala, 2010: A sinkhole covers a street intersection after tropical storm Agatha hit the area



Oman: The Bimah Sinkhole, a limestone crater filled with blue-green water, is a popular visitor attraction near Qurayat

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