Remezcla https://remezcla.com/tag/sinkhole/ Our Thing Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:20:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://remezcla.com/wp-content/themes/remezcla/assets/images/social/precomposed-144x144.png Remezcla https://remezcla.com/tag/sinkhole/ 144 144 WATCH: Sinkhole That Appeared in Chilean Mining Town Deeper Than Length of Two Football Fields https://remezcla.com/culture/sinkhole-chile-mining-town-deeper-than-length-of-two-football-fields/ Fri, 05 Aug 2022 14:29:02 +0000 https://remezcla.com/?p=329067 A sinkhole measuring 105 feet wide and 656 feet deep opened in the small mining town of Tierra Amarilla, Chile, over 400 miles north of the capital city of Santiago. Experts are currently investigating the cause, but the sinkhole developed on land that belongs to the Alcaparrosa de Candelaria underground copper mining operation, so there

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]]> Chile_Mining_Sinkhole TOPSHOT - Aerial view taken on August 1, 2022, showing a large sinkhole that appeared over the weekend near the mining town of Tierra Amarilla, Copiapo Province, in the Atacama Desert in Chile. - A 100-metre security perimeter has been erected around the hole which appeared in the Tierra Amarilla municipality near the Alcaparrosa mine operated by Canadian firm Lundin Mining. (Photo by JOHAN GODOY / AFP) (Photo by JOHAN GODOY/AFP via Getty Images)