The sinkhole first formed in Daisetta in 2008, swallowing cars and telephone poles, before staying dormant for 15 years.
"We just never thought it would start again," Linda Hoover, a local resident who lives near the sinkhole, told local news."When we bought our house a few years ago, we were under the understanding that it was stabilized."when the layer of ground below the surface erodes away, often due to the flow of groundwater dissolving the rock. When the depression under the ground becomes large enough, the surface may give way in a sudden collapse.
"Sinkholes form in regions where there are many subterranean cavities and the bedrock experiences structural failure," Steve Brenner, a professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at Bar Ilan University, Israel, previously toldThe Daisetta sinkhole in particular is thought to have resulted from the town sitting on a massive salt dome, which has slowly eroded away, according to the U.S. Geological Society .
USGS image of the Daisetta sinkhole. The sinkhole has begun to grow again after 15 years of stability.in 2018, fluids can often find their way into salt domes via abandoned wells or damaged pipes and casings from the oil and gas industry, especially in Texas. Sinkholes have resulted in around $300 million in damage costs per year across the U.S. over the past 15 years, the USGS says, with the actual cost possibly being much higher.
"My neighbor came over and said he kept hearing popping sounds like a gunshot. We went to the backyard, and there were buildings falling in. It was like a movie. You can see cracks forming in the ground," local resident Tim Priessler toldResidents now fear that they may have to evacuate the town, although no evacuations have yet been ordered.
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