Sinkholes are common in Florida because of its limestone bedrock. Alabama, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas and Pennsylvania are prone to sinkholes as well, also because of their bedrock.

Sinkholes are not always associated with mining. In 2013, a man was killed when a sinkhole opened up beneath his home in central Florida, where the porous limestone base gives rise to thousands of ...

Sinkholes aren't just a problem at Tanger Outlets. A: DCNR experts describe the limestone bedrock as a plumbing system with a network of "pipes" - passages through the bedrock layers that channel ...

When the dirt, clay or sand gets too heavy for the limestone roof, it can collapse and form a sinkhole. Sinkholes are caused naturally but they can be triggered by outside events. WHAT TRIGGERS ...

Sinkholes typically form when the ground beneath an area slowly dissolves and can no longer support the weight above it. Areas with limestone underneath the surface are highly susceptible because ...

Since 2000, dozens of sinkholes have opened up in a 28.5-square-mile area stretching from Leesburg to Point of Rocks near the Maryland border.

A giant sinkhole swallowed the center of a soccer complex that was built over an operating limestone mine in southern Illinois, leaving a gaping chasm where kids often play. No injuries were reported.

Sinkholes are most common in what geologists call karst terrain, which involves types of rock including limestone below the land surface that can naturally be dissolved by groundwater circulating ...

In 2013, a man was killed when a sinkhole opened up beneath his home in central Florida, where the porous limestone base gives rise to thousands of sinkholes every year.

In 2013, a man was killed when a sinkhole opened up beneath his home in central Florida, where the porous limestone base gives rise to thousands of sinkholes every year.

Authorities fear a woman in western Pennsylvania who disappeared while looking for her cat may have been swallowed by a sinkhole — a phenomenon likely caused by mine subsidence.