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Experts Baffled as Giant Sinkholes Multiply in Quebec City, Canada

05/27/2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

By Jill Colton – “Sinkholes are mysteriously appearing in an neighbourhood in Quebec City, prompting an evacuation order.

Some are big enough to swallow a full car.

Sinkholes are forming in a Quebec City neighbourhood, collapsing the earth and leaving experts baffled.

The city has issued an evacuation order. People in 15 homes and one business have been ordered to leave.

There are about 40 holes and they range between six metres wide and five metres deep in the north end neighbourhood of the city.

City officials are concerned about the sinkholes and their potential for danger.

They started to appear over the last week and soil experts are taking samples to try and find out what’s behind the collapses.” Read more.

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