A sinkhole that first appeared in July after the collapse of the surface layer and grew larger as days went by, photographed in the village of Pinzon de Morado, in Guerrero state, Mexico, on August 26, 2018. The state government reported that work done in a mine that operated in the area 10 years ago caused the hole. #

The rear portion of a residential home is consumed by a sinkhole in Dunedin, Florida, on November 14, 2013. According to reports, the hole began to form between two houses the morning of November 14, and grew to about 30 feet wide by 30 feet deep. #

A vanished pond in Bosnia. People gather around a huge sinkhole in the village of Sanica, Bosnia, on November 21, 2013. Only weeks before, the spot was a pond full of fish and floating green algae, lined with old willow and plum trees, and a grass field where cattle used to peacefully graze. The pond was some 20 meters in diameter. Now the "abyss," as the villagers named the sinkhole, is some 50 meters wide and 30 meters deep. #

Women view a car with its front end in a sinkhole, in Philadelphia, on July 30, 2013. PVI-TV reported that the sinkhole had opened up overnight on a street in the city's Hunting Park section, with no injuries reported. There was no word on what caused the sinkhole. #

A man examines a 40-foot-deep sinkhole that opened up under the bed of a pensioner in Guatemala City on July 19, 2011. Inocenta del Rosal Hernandez, 65, awoke to a loud boom and found the earth under her bed had imploded, creating a circular hole. #

Rescuers work at the scene of a landslide in Saint-Jude, Quebec, as shown from the air on May 11, 2010. A family of four was killed after a sinkhole triggered by the landslide swallowed their house northeast of Montreal. #

Concrete is poured into a sinkhole in the driveway of a house in Walters Ash, England, on February 6, 2014. The hole swallowed a car—which was not recovered—and the nine-meter-deep crater was filled with 300 tons of concrete. #

Workers from Dave's Truck Repair try to figure out how to tow a waste-disposal truck out of a sinkhole after a road collapsed in North Guilford Hills, near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, on June 20, 1997. The truck was on its regular route when the road gave way, startling area neighbors. The driver and a passenger were not injured. #

A collapsed paved sidewalk, photographed on North End Road in London on April 23, 2015. A woman allegedly fell down the hole when a the pavement gave way without warning. #

A view of a sinkhole that opened a few days earlier in Natal, Brazil, on June 22, 2014. The hole, caused by recent rains, swallowed cars and damaged the homes of 150 families living in a poor neighborhood. #

A house on Barry Road, near the Martha Gold Mine company offices, collapsed into a huge hole measuring 50 meters wide by 15 meters deep in the small town of Waihi, on the North Island of New Zealand, on December 13, 2001. A family of five, including three young children, escaped serious injury despite their home crashing into a chasm created by an old mine shaft collapsing in the middle of the night. #

One of many sinkholes in Israel's abandoned tourist resort of Ein Gedi, on the shore of the Dead Sea, photographed on July 11, 2016. Experts have warned that the Dead Sea, the lowest and saltiest body of water in the world, is on course to dry out by 2050, with the emergence of sinkholes forcing the closure of roads and beaches, as well as damaging agriculture. #

Workers use cement to fill in part of a road that caved in in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, on February 11, 2015. No one was injured when the area collapsed due to a fault in the construction of a subway line, local media reported. #