Guatemala City Sinkhole Location on Google Earth


	Guatemala City Sinkhole Location on Google Earth

Deepti

2-26-2007 12:24 AM

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2-26-2007 1:10 PM

dropdedman

My God. That is crazy.

2-26-2007 1:23 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7c3ce3d7-9c5c-41f5-9e5b-f77dae0de1e5/9EFCE473-3D69-44B5-9530-FC4C66E67746/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2007/02/guatemala_city_sinkh.html" href="http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2007/02/guatemala_city_sinkh.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.gearthblog.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2007/02/guatemala_city_sinkh.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.gearthblog.com/img/212D03E4-1CC5-4C4C-805D-A871C47613FC" alt="Guatemala City Giant sinkhole  in Google Earth" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2007/02/guatemala_city_sinkh.html">A giant sinkhole (over 300 feet deep) swallowed homes and killed at least two teenagers early Friday.  The disaster has been reported in the news (<A href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17303991/" set="yes">see MSNBC story</A>)  and apparently was caused by a clogged sewer main.  There were recently rains in the area, and residents in the area had been feeling tremors for weeks.  The city had even planned investigations, but it was too late.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2007/02/guatemala_city_sinkh.html">There were no details on the location in the news reports so far, but I noticed some aerial photos of the area.  I went to see if I could find the location in Google Earth's satellite photos.   I was surprised, after only a few minutes of searching, to happen upon the <A title="GE File" href="http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/download.php?Number=810206" set="yes">actual location</A> <IMG border="0" title="GE File.  You must have Google Earth installed." src="http://www.gearthblog.com/images/gelogoicon.gif" />!  Fortunately, the street configuration is pretty unique which helped me in the search.  If you look at the terrain by tilting your view (use the middle mouse button or <B>shift-down-arrow</B>) you can see the location is at least 200 feet above a creek/river area running north-south just to the east.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9EFCE473-3D69-44B5-9530-FC4C66E67746/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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