The hourglass-shaped hole is estimated to be 500 feet deep — perhaps even more. But you’re not likely to hear about it.

That’s nearly the cost of annual tornado damage in America. Sinkholes, Veni explains, “are dispersed over time and throughout ...

Entire houses vanish overnight. Roads crack without warning. Florida’s landscape is sitting on unstable ground—literally. This is why sinkholes keep opening and why no one can fully predict them ...

Sinkholes aren’t just random holes in the ground – they’re the result of powerful natural forces and sometimes human activity ...

The sinkhole that swallowed a sleeping Seffner, Florida, man last Thursday night was like a monster from a nightmare. Suddenly and without warning, a mouth 20 feet (6 meters) wide opened beneath ...

The Winter Haven Police Department is reassuring residents that there was no “football field” sinkhole discovered Thursday ...

Sinkholes happen more often in regions with rock that can be dissolved by groundwater. Both Pennsylvania and Florida are highly vulnerable because they rest on limestone, which is filled with holes ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Scientists say a stone knife and other artifacts found deep underwater in a Florida sinkhole show people lived in that area some 14,500 years ago. That makes the ancient sinkhole the ...

Emergency crews first reported a"sinkhole the size of a football field." It turned out to be something completely different.

Sinkholes form when specific types of rock dissolve beneath the ground, but their collapse can be triggered by earthquakes and heavy rain. What are they and how do you know where they form?

A 100-foot wide sinkhole opened up directly under a house in the town of Seffner, Florida, last night, nearly killing two brothers and forcing authorities to evacuate the entire neighborhood. One of ...

Groups like Manasota-88 and the Center for Biological Diversity warn: Florida’s geology is vulnerable to sinkholes and aquifer contamination. Once injected, mistakes are irreversible. The wastewater ...