GEOLOGICAL UPHEAVAL: Land Subsidence Continues in China - Sinkholes in Nanning Force Relocation of 355 Students; Pits Collapsed With Thunderous Sounds!

A total of 355 students at a village in Nanning, capital of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, have been evacuated after sinkholes opened up, local authorities said Friday.

The biggest collapse pit Hang Hau area of about 300 square meters, the naked eye can not see the bottom of the pit. Reporter Tang Huiji photo

The affected students from Tanluo No.2 Middle School were relocated to other schools or taken back home after five fissures were found at Tanluo village, Xixiangtang district, Thursday night and Friday morning, including a 300-square-meter sinkhole, an official with the district government said. Land subsidence also affected four villages in Xixiangtang district on June 1 with 844 people evacuated. The subsidence caused one building to collapse and damaged six others. - China News Center.

At 1:30 on the 8th, reporters rushed to the town of Tanluo Tanluo village, collapsed near the dark, nearby residents have been evacuated. New collapse pit 3, the first one in Tanluo town (hereinafter referred to as "in Tanluo II") in front of the Hang Hau area of ​​about three square meters, about 0.5 meters deep. By the collapse affect the pit of the school walls also appeared in the cracks of about 2 m. On-site monitoring personnel according to their most recent two or three hours of observation, the pit depth continues to increase. The collapse pit distance Tanluo, two in front of the original collapse of the pit is only 23 meters, old collapse pit backfilling is completed just in the afternoon of the 6th. Addition, two new collapse pit in the paddy fields Tanluo two diagonally opposite, about 300 meters from the school gates.

First discovered in the village cadres, the collapse pit 9:30 the evening of 7 Xu, his inspections to the sound of water to rice paddies, paddy fields to hear constant reports "crashed". Village cadres raised his flashlight according to the paddy fields, the scene before he was surprised by a large seedlings disappeared, and two dark hole appear in the the middle of the paddy fields. Who heard Tanluo town party secretary Ma significantly ball barefoot into the field, walked a few meters from the pit only position when he suddenly heard the pit came a burst of thunder sound. He thought that the new collapse, and quickly turned out of the paddy fields. As the lights dim, he failed to see the pit size and pit. At 2:00 on the 8th, the reporter stood about 100 meters from the collapse pit 005 County Road, you can clearly hear the pit came the sound of water. From time to time there is a similar thunderous sound came out, chilling.  - SOHU [Translated].