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Giant Guatemalan 'Sinkhole' Is Worse Than We Thought
reillymj writes "Despite hundreds of media reports to the contrary, Sam Bonis, a geologist whose life work has been studying Guatemalan geology, has plainly said that the dramatic 'sinkhole' in Guatemala City that opened over the weekend isn't a sinkhole at all. Instead, he called it a 'piping feature' and warned that because the country's capital city sits on a pile of loose volcanic ash, the over one million people living on top of the pile are in danger. 'I'd hate to have to be in the government right now,' Bonis, who worked for the Guatemalan government's Instituto Geografico Nacional for 16 years, said. 'There is an excellent potential for this to happen again. It could happen almost anywhere in the city.'"
He is just now making this information public? How long has he known about this? Why were the people not informed earlier? TFA states a similar (but smaller) hole opened back in 2007, not too far from this monster.
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"Feature" like Microsoft's "features"?
Holy hell, that's amazing. Just a giant almost perfect circular hole in the middle of the city. Amazing.
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