Texas Sinkhole - A massive Sinkhole at Daisetta

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Texas Sinkhole - A massive Sinkhole at Daisetta

In Daisetta, Texas, a Huge Massive Sinkhole has appeared. This massive sinkole has swallowed up oild field equipment, poles, vehicles trees, and some other materials.

Daisetta, has a local population of 1,000 people and it's situated 60 miles northeast of Houston.

This massive huge sinkhole as grown to an astonish 00 feet wide and 200 feet deep, and daisetta is being partly swalloweb by this huge and rare sinkhole.

This phenomen of naure (a Texas Sinkhole in Daisetta), was found by workers that were checking the mainlines for oil and natural gas to make sure that they were ok, since some leaks were reported a few days before.

This Texas Sinkhole at Daisetta, it's the result of a land lying on top of a salt brine where oil and natural gas are naturally store in earth's surface.

Some Tv channels that was in the terrain, filmed and showed a tractor, telephone poles, some oil fied equipment, all falling into this huge sinkhole as it grew minute after minute.

Sinkholes are rare and often take up to two weeks to stabilize, said Geoffrey Paine, a geologist and geophysicist with the University of Texas.

Farm-to-Market Road 770 was closed to traffic and vehicles were being diverted to FM 834 over concerns the pit could spread to the roadway.

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robie2 profile image

robie2  says:
2 months ago

Very interesting--good photos and video....well I guess everything really is bigger in Texas, even the sinkholes:-)

jonixk profile image

jonixk  says:
2 months ago

Exactly robie2, everything it's HUGE :)

Trsmd profile image

Trsmd  says:
2 months ago

really very big Hole...

glassvisage profile image

glassvisage  says:
2 months ago

Sinkholes are one of those fascinating parts of nature that I don't want to mess with :S

Joanna Silva  says:
5 weeks ago

I visited the place in the other day, it's huge and very impressive! The workers recently saw a big aligator in the waters of the hole.

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