How do sinkholes swallow entire houses and cities? - Elise Cutts
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DownloadIt was a rainy December morning in San Francisco’s Sea Cliff neighborhood
when the Earth opened up.
The ground suddenly fell away into a 12-meter-deep sinkhole
that engulfed a garage, part of a street,
and a luckily unoccupied multi-million-dollar mansion.
Sinkholes can seem to strike out of nowhere,
collapsing roads or even whole city blocks in a flash.
And they’re more common than people often think.
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Key Vocabulary (19)
To move a door, window, or lid so that an opening is no longer covered. It can also mean to start a business service or to begin an event.
To be at a distance from a particular person, place, or thing. It is also used to indicate movement towards a different place or to describe being absent from a location.
A city is a large and important town where many people live and work closely together. It typically has a complex system of transport, housing, and sanitation, and serves as a hub for business and culture.
H2O liquid
"Drink water daily."
Describing a state of having fallen down, caved in, or suddenly failed in structure or function. It is used to characterize physical objects, economic systems, or biological states that have undergone a total breakdown.
As a noun, 'the deep' refers to the ocean or a very large and deep body of water. It is also used to describe the most intense or central part of a period of time, such as the middle of the night or winter.
"The deep is important."
A cliff is a very steep or vertical face of rock, often located at the edge of the sea or a mountain. It is usually high and can be dangerous to stand near the edge.
Sediment is the solid material that settles at the bottom of a liquid like water or wine. It is made of small pieces of rock, dirt, or organic matter that sink because they are heavier than the liquid.
A large body of salt water that covers most of the Earth's surface. It is generally smaller than an ocean and often partly or fully surrounded by land.
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