Surface disturbance could cause the landforms to collapse, impeding their ability to filter ground water needed by local communities. Karst was ... with cave-ins and sinkholes in karstic areas.

The New Jersey Department of Transportation said traffic is being rerouted after another 15-foot by 15-foot sinkhole opened in the center median on Interstate 80. The hole is a result of drilling ...

Same state, different highway hole. A gaping sinkhole opened up on a different New Jersey highway Friday — days after a third formed just miles away along Interstate 80 since December and threw ...

Portions of Interstate 80 in Morris County have been closed for four months due to sinkholes. Timothy Bechtel, a senior professor of geosciences at Franklin & Marshall College, said precipitation ...

Florida, rich in limestone, is especially susceptible to sinkholes. "Sinkholes are most common in what geologists call, 'karst terrain'," the US Geological Survey (USGS) explains. "These are ...

Clallam County Fire-Rescue crews saved a dog that had fallen down a 10-foot sinkhole on Saturday afternoon. The 60-pound husky mix named Rip had fallen down the hole after a depression in a ...

One isn't working out. In early February, a sinkhole 11 feet in diameter opened up along the eastbound lanes just west of the highway's Route 15 overpass. After the collapse, New Jersey Department ...

A study led by Prof. Chen Hongsong from the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has ...

Forest Acres resident Shelley Stokes uses the handle of a gardening tool on Feb. 13, 2025 to measure how much water is at the bottom of a sinkhole in her yard. She said the six-foot-deep hole ...

As sinkholes continue to open up Route 80 and now Route 287, getting around North Jersey, and in particular Morris County, is becoming more challenging each day. On Route 80, the voids on both the ...

The latest NJ sinkhole closed two left northbound lanes north of Exit 41. The sinkhole appeared during a Friday night rush hour. Sinkholes on Route 80, caused by mine collapses, are not related to ...