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Sinkholes can be deadly -- swallowing residents and damaging infrastructure.
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People look on as autos are seen stuck in a sinkhole that happened in a stopping range after overwhelming precipitation hit Haikou, Hainan territory, China, September 16, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer
A monster sinkhole brought on by the downpours of Tropical Storm Agatha is found in Guatemala City May 31, 2010. REUTERS/Casa Presidencial/Handout
People remain by a 24.9 meter (82 feet) diametre pit at a town in Guangyuan, Sichuan region, February 28, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer
Bystanders take a gander at an auto that has in part fallen into a little sinkhole along a road in Beijing, China, September 6, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer
People take a gander at a caved in segment of Shunwai Road in Nanchang, China's Jiangxi region, April 25, 2007. REUTERS/China Daily
A development vehicle lies where it was gulped by a sinkhole on Saint-Catherine Street in downtown Montreal, August 5, 2013. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi
A man investigates a sinkhole which showed up in his fish lake in Guiping, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, March 29, 2016. REUTERS/Stringer
A segment of the Summer Bay Resort lies given way after a huge sinkhole opened on the property's grounds in Clermont, Florida August 12, 2013. REUTERS/David Manning
A mammoth sinkhole that gulped a few homes is found in Guatemala City February 23, 2007. REUTERS/Stringer
A sinkhole is seen on the shore of the Dead Sea, Israel July 27, 2015. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
An aeronautical perspective of the harmed Gran Marical de Ayacucho expressway in the condition of Miranda outside Caracas December 1, 2010. REUTERS/Miranda Government/Handout
A mammoth sinkhole brought about by the downpours of hurricane Agatha is found in Guatemala City June 1, 2010. REUTERS/Daniel LeClair
Policemen check a caved in area of a junction in Hefei, Anhui region August 8, 2009. REUTERS/China Daily
Rescue laborers complete the body of a casualty in a street collapse mischance in this photo taken through a security window in Shenzhen, Guangdong territory May 21, 2013. REUTERS/China Daily
People take a gander at a stacked truck that stalled out in a sinkhole on a street in Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, January 7, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer
A specialist reviews a sinkhole that showed up after substantial rain outside a property situated close Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's living arrangement in Sydney, Australia, February 8, 2017. REUTERS/David Gray
People take a gander at a huge sinkhole on a road after a water pipe softened underneath it up Xi'an, Shaanxi region October 27, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer