Sinkholes appear in Amazon as Brazilian city declares emergency - Buriticupu, in the Brazilian Amazon, has declared an emergency in the face of these sinkholes ...

Authorities in Brazil have declared an emergency in the municipality of Buriticupu because of massive sinkholes that swallowed homes and are threatening hundreds more in the Amazon. Stunning video ...

An entire town in Brazil could be swallowed up by the earth. The municipality of Buriticupu, home to 55,000 residents, has declared a state of calamity as sinkholes have been threatening homes.

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THOUSANDS of people are at risk of losing their homes as a terrifying sinkhole forced a Brazilian city into a state of emergency. Shocking images from the city of Buriticupu, in the northeast of ...

in the north-eastern tip of the Brazilian Amazon, is being slowly swallowed by the earth. In recent weeks, huge sinkholes, several metres deep, have led the municipal government to declare a state ...

in the north eastern tip of the Brazilian Amazon, have already been destroyed with 1,200 people at risk of losing their homes to the widening abyss. The city’s government said of the sinkholes ...

An entire town in Brazil could be swallowed up by the earth. The municipality of Buriticupu, home to 55,000 residents, has declared a state of calamity as sinkholes have been threatening homes.

These sinkholes are a dramatic escalation of a problem ... These huge soil erosions are known in Brazil as "voçoroca" which has indigenous origins and means "to tear the earth".

A city in Brazil has declared a state of emergency after a number of huge sinkholes opened up in recent weeks. Several buildings in the city of Buriticupu, in the north eastern tip of the ...