Ultimately, preventing large sinkholes will require more than patchwork fixes or new detection tools. What is needed is an ...

According to Science Alert, scientists studied a 98-foot sediment core taken from the floor of the Great Blue Hole. Their ...

Why sinkholes are swallowing more of Florida than ever before The post Why Sinkholes Are Swallowing More of Florida Than Ever ...

Authorities with the state have attributed all three sinkholes to collapsing mineshafts underneath the roadway. Roughly 588 abandoned mines lurk beneath the surface in nine northern New Jersey ...

Timothy Bechtel has testified in state and federal courts, and his command of the subject has helped to find buried human remains.

The sinkhole “appears to be due to collapse of infrastructure,” Andrew Farrant, a geologist at the British Geological Survey, said in an email Tuesday. While natural sinkholes are caused by ...

Sinkholes can vary in size and depth, "from a few feet to hundreds of acres and from less than 1 to more than 100 feet deep," according to the U.S. Geological Survey, an agency of the U.S ...

which lies just to the south of the sinkhole zone. A 1924 map complete with underground mapping from the local Replogle Steel Co. and old U.S. Geological Survey records placed the mine's primary ...

Portions of Interstate 80 in Morris County have been closed for four months due to sinkholes. Timothy Bechtel, a senior professor of geosciences at Franklin & Marshall College, said precipitation ...