'Hell holes' around the world
Despite being born under the influence of nature or man-made, hellish holes covering large areas of the world are still potential dangers for humans.
Giant death holes around the world
Natural pits (or holes Deaths, hell holes) today become the obsession of people in some parts of the world. They are known as basement-like deep holes, craters wide enough to swallow people, trees, cars, houses and even a swimming pool .
Hell holes can appear anywhere, it is created from a burst of water pipes, sewers, mines or a cave that we don't know yet.
Dozens of houses fall into a hole more than 18 meters wide in the middle of Guatemala's capital on May 29, 2010.(Photo: AP.)
"Hell hole" destroyed a house and a road in the city of Saint-Jude, Quebec province, Canada on May 11, 2010.(Photo: AP.)
Tennessee, US traffic worker, sealed the area around a large pit on the road near the city of Chattanooga on May 18, 2010.The pit has a depth of 7.5 m, a length of 12 m and a width of 5.4 m.(Photo: AP.)
Road to a house in the city of Marietta, Georgia, USA was destroyed after a big hole appeared on the night of January 25, 2010.The landlord said he saw a fallen tree before the hole appeared.(Photo: AP).
The first part of a fire truck is under a big hole in Hollywood, California, USA on September 8, 2009.The land underneath the car was weakened by previous rains.(Photo: AP.)
A hole appeared on a highway in Fair Oaks, California, USA on July 18, 2008.(Photo: Los Angeles Times.)
Land collapsed below a road in Prince William County, Virginia state, USA on May 16, 2008.(Photo: The Washington Post.)
A hole appears in the city of Chevy Chase, Maryland State, USA on May 7, 2008.(Photo: The Washington Post.)
Trucks fall "hell hole" in Daisetta city, Texas, USA on May 7, 2008.(Photo: AP.)
A midway hole in Frederick, Maryland, on April 24, 2008.(Photo: The Washington Post.)
The image of a man examining a hellish hole appeared in a house in northern Guatemala City on July 19, 2011.When people heard a loud explosion in the middle of the night, they thought the gas tank exploded but found a hole deep inside the house.This hellhole is 12.2m deep and 0.8m in diameter.(Photo: Johan Ordonez).
Pictures of workers using crane machines to fill a hell hole by collapsing houses near a subway project in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China.The hole has an area of up to 93m square and 9.2m deep.(Photo: AFP).
In June 1994, a large hole, 32m wide and 56m deep appeared in the middle of the landfill by the company IMC-Agrico near Mulberry, Florida.This hellhole discharged nearly 10,000 tons of phosphoric acid to the ground below and into Florida's aquifer, which supplies up to 90% of the state's drinking water.Shortly thereafter, the company paid a large amount of money to fill the hole and closely monitored the acidity in the water source.(Photo: Selbypic).
A bus crashed into the hell hole created by the underground explosion in Rui'an, Zhejiang Province, China on January 16, February011. Fortunately, there were no passengers on the car, This incident injured the driver and a 6-year-old boy nearby.(Photo: Reuters).
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