Ground opens up, swallows dozen cars in Mississippi!

[Informer]

Tests are to take place to determine why the ground opened up in a Mississippi city, swallowing 12 cars in a restaurant car park.

The large gash, some 400ft (120m) long and 35ft (11m) wide, opened up late on Saturday in Meridian, near the Alabama state line.

The area had suffered heavy rains over the past two weeks, the Meridian Star newspaper reported.

No-one was injured, and engineers will assess the ground on Monday.

Buck Roberts, the director of public safety in Meridian, told the newspaper it did not appear to be a sinkhole, which is usually caused when an underground water aquifer dries and the ground above it collapses.

"You can call it what you want, a cave-in or whatever, but it is not a sinkhole," Mr Roberts said.


BBC - November 9, 2015

 

[yampwai]

Wataalamu wa jiolojia wameitwa
kuchunguzwa ni jinsi gani ardhi
ilipasuka na kumeza magari 12 katika
maegesho ya magari jijini
Mississippi.

Shimo kubwa, la urefu wa futi 400
(120m) na upana wa futi 35 (11m),
lilitokea baadaye Jumamosi katika
eneo la Meridian, karibu na barabara
kuu ya Alabama.

Eneo hilo limekuwa likipokea mvua
kubwa katika kipindi cha wiki mbili
zilizopita, kwa mujbiu wa gazeti la
Meridian Star.
Hakuna aliyejeruhiwa katika kisa
hicho, na wahandisi wanatarajiwa
kudadisi uthabiti wa ardhi eneo hilo
leo.

Bw Buck Roberts, mkurugenzi wa
usalama wa umma eneo la Meridian,
aliambia gazeti hilo kwamba hilo
halionekani kuwa shimo la kawaida
ambalo hutokana na sehemu
inayohifadhi maji chini ya ardhi
kukauka na ardhi kuporomoka.

source: BBC SWAHILI

 

[jd41]

..picha..

 

[RRONDO]

sink hole??

 

[Ndakilawe]

End of the world is around the corner! Get closer to your God

 

[nyamchele]

sink hole??

 

[nyamchele]

..picha..

Giant 'Sinkhole' Swallows Over Dozen Cars at Mississippi International House of Pancakes - NBC News

 

[kambagasa]

..picha..

Ngoja nivute kwanza sigara

 

[al-bauly]

The weak rock layers below the surface were disturbed by heavy load and water absorption, such that the creeping was so high.

 

[sawabho]

Hiyo inaitwa Sink hole

 

[Mtoto halali na hela]

Majanga....

 

[Mfilisti]

wonder shall never end..

 

[Victoire]

dissolution of carbonate rocks,ndo yanatokea hayo mambo ya sink holes.Huko mbona sio jambo jipya?

 

[mamitod]

Wengi wetu ambao elimu ilisafiri kipindi tulitakiwa tuipate tutaona ni maajabu lkn wenzetu ni common na yataendelea kutokea sehemu nyingi tu. Si ajabu ht kidogo ni jogoorafia na fisi sikia kidogo + jibu unalo

 

[Chivundu]

sink hole??

RRONDO upo vizuri kwenye jogi mkuu.

 

[Wacha1]

Buck Roberts, the director of public safety in Meridian, told the newspaper it did not appear to be a sinkhole, which is usually caused when an underground water aquifer dries and the ground above it collapses.

"You can call it what you want, a cave-in or whatever, but it is not a sinkhole," Mr Roberts said.

Wataalam oops geologists watachema.

 

[eden kimario]

Magari 12 yaliyokua katka maegesho katika hotel moja jijini Mississippi marekani yalitumbukia katika shimo la urefu wa mita 400 na upana wa futi 35 katibu na barabara kuu ya alabama baada ya ardhi kupasuka juzi
Tukio hilo halikusababisha kifo cha mtu yeyote

 

[jzm-teak]

Magari 12 yaliyokua katka maegesho katika hotel moja jijini Mississippi marekani yalitumbukia katika shimo la urefu wa mita 400 na upana wa futi 35 katibu na barabara kuu ya alabama baada ya ardhi kupasuka juzi
Tukio hilo halikusababisha kifo cha mtu yeyote

Rais katukataza mambo ya nje!

 

[mwakitebe]

Kapicha pleaz

 

[Tindo]

Magari 12 yaliyokua katka maegesho katika hotel moja jijini Mississippi marekani yalitumbukia katika shimo la urefu wa mita 400 na upana wa futi 35 katibu na barabara kuu ya alabama baada ya ardhi kupasuka juzi
Tukio hilo halikusababisha kifo cha mtu yeyote

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