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Sinkhole appears in Nanjing street
By Zhang Xuanchen |
June 17, 2010, Thursday
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A BIG sinkhole opened up on a busy street in Nanjing city yesterday, the latest in a series of mysterious pits appearing around China this year.
The road suddenly collapsed, creating a two-meter wide and three-meter deep hole at 6:40pm near Fuzi Temple, a popular scenic spot at Changle Road in the capital of neighboring Jiangsu Province, witnesses told China News Service today.
A bus narrowly escaped being trapped by the pit, and no one was injured, said Han Jinlin, a traffic policeman on duty nearby.
He then helped block the road with bamboo poles.
This is the first time a sinkhole has appeared in Nanjing. Zhang Zhenya, deputy director of the provincial seismological bureau, calmed fears by saying there was no possibility of an earthquake.
Some residents living nearby said faulty construction was to blame. A resident surnamed Qian said the construction group used substandard materials to pave the road after it finished repairing a leak.
An investigation was still underway.
Last week, a hole measuring 80 meters across opened up in a school playground in Ningxiang County in central China's Hunan Province. The pit began to appear in January and widened during the rainy season.
Several pits have appeared across China since June 13, with four houses cracked and damaged in Guangxi Autonomous Region, forcing 300 villagers to leave their homes.
On June 4, a car was trapped when an eight-meter sinkhole suddenly formed on a busy motorway in Nanchang City, southeast China's Jiangxi Province.
A total of 43 holes appeared in southwest China's Sichuan Province in April, with the largest hole measuring 40 meters across.
Sinkholes are mainly caused by deeper karst caves, or dissolution of layers of bedrocks underneath, said Zhou Huiqun, a professor with the department of earth sciences in Nanjing University.
But the holes are not signs of an earthquake, said Zhou.
The road suddenly collapsed, creating a two-meter wide and three-meter deep hole at 6:40pm near Fuzi Temple, a popular scenic spot at Changle Road in the capital of neighboring Jiangsu Province, witnesses told China News Service today.
A bus narrowly escaped being trapped by the pit, and no one was injured, said Han Jinlin, a traffic policeman on duty nearby.
He then helped block the road with bamboo poles.
This is the first time a sinkhole has appeared in Nanjing. Zhang Zhenya, deputy director of the provincial seismological bureau, calmed fears by saying there was no possibility of an earthquake.
Some residents living nearby said faulty construction was to blame. A resident surnamed Qian said the construction group used substandard materials to pave the road after it finished repairing a leak.
An investigation was still underway.
Last week, a hole measuring 80 meters across opened up in a school playground in Ningxiang County in central China's Hunan Province. The pit began to appear in January and widened during the rainy season.
Several pits have appeared across China since June 13, with four houses cracked and damaged in Guangxi Autonomous Region, forcing 300 villagers to leave their homes.
On June 4, a car was trapped when an eight-meter sinkhole suddenly formed on a busy motorway in Nanchang City, southeast China's Jiangxi Province.
A total of 43 holes appeared in southwest China's Sichuan Province in April, with the largest hole measuring 40 meters across.
Sinkholes are mainly caused by deeper karst caves, or dissolution of layers of bedrocks underneath, said Zhou Huiqun, a professor with the department of earth sciences in Nanjing University.
But the holes are not signs of an earthquake, said Zhou.
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