An 18-foot-deep sinkhole opened up in Ontario, covering an entire intersection and forcing a major street to shut down.

An atmospheric river has arrived in the Bay Area, with moderate to heavy rain expected to continue, along with increasing ...

In 2016, a giant sinkhole around 30 metres wide and 15 metres deep appeared on a busy street in Fukuoka city, triggered by nearby subway construction.

Most were small, at only 50cm deep or less. In 2016, a giant sinkhole around 30m wide and 15m deep appeared on a busy street in Fukuoka city, triggered by nearby subway construction. No one was ...

YASHIO, Saitama: The space between the two sinkholes in a prefectural road in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture, collapsed early on Thursday (Jan 30) morning and created one larger hole, estimated to be ...

Fears are growing for the health and safety of a truck driver who has now spent almost four days trapped in a sinkhole in Japan, after the road opened up and swallowed the truck he was driving.

The man reportedly became trapped inside his truck when it fell into a sinkhole on Tuesday, Jan. 28 Latoya Gayle joined PEOPLE as an Associate Editor in 2024. Her work has previously appeared in ...

Emergency workers in Japan are struggling to rescue a truck driver who has spent three days stuck in a massive sinkhole in a city just north of Tokyo. The 74-year-old man, who has not been ...

The sinkhole, which opened on Tuesday at a street intersection in Yashio, has grown to 130 feet wide. Plans are to install a roughly 100-foot-long ramp from a nearby parking lot into the sinkhole to ...

The 74-year-old and his lorry were swallowed by the sinkhole when it appeared in Yashio, just north of Tokyo, on Tuesday morning. Rescue efforts have been hampered by further collapses ...

Takashi Oguchi, a geographer from the University of Tokyo, said sinkholes are rare in Japan, where most roads are built on unconsolidated fluvial and marine sediments. But he warned that when a ...

An aerial view of a large sinkhole that swallowed a truck and a man at an intersection in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture on January 30, 2025. Kyodo/Reuters Tokyo CNN — ...