GEOLOGICAL UPHEAVALS: Another Hole Forms At Inskip Point, Queensland, Australia - Months After A 330-EET WIDE FOOTBALL-FIELD-SIZED Sinkhole Devoured The Same Beach! [PHOTOS + VIDEOS]

Another major erosion event along Inskip Point beach, Queensland. Second one in six months.
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March 1, 2016 - QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA - Another collapsing sandy hole has formed at Inskip Point at the northern end of rainbow beach.

According to Queensland Parks and Wildlife the activity started at the surface of the sand about 8am and ended at 10.15am.

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A picture from the Seven News chopper of the sinkhole that has formed at Inskip Point© Seven News

The service is describing it as an erosion event better termed as a "near-shore landslide" than a sinkhole.

The erosion has not affected any campsites nor access to the barge to Fraser Island.

The Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service has erected traffic barriers and warning signs around the sites.


WATCH: Earth moves again at campsite.

A statement on the parks and wildlife website said it was likely to be "another occurrence of the natural phenomenon which occurred in September 2015 at Inskip".

In that incident 300 people had to be evacuated after campsites came under threat, and some cars that were swallowed up by sinking sand are still underwater.


WATCH: The first incident at Inskip in 2015.

"It is caused by the undermining of part of the shoreline by tidal flow, waves and currents," the statement said.

"When this occurs below the waterline, the shoreline loses support and a section slides seaward leaving a hole, the edges of which retrogress back towards the shore."

Members of the public were urged to observe the warnings in place around the area.

Rangers were monitoring the hole that has formed. - Brisbane Times.

GEOLOGICAL UPHEAVAL: 100-Foot Sinkhole in Rainbow Beach?!

I am re-posting the following story to fulfill several requests from my readers and to highlight the substantive loss in strength and stiffness in the land, as a direct result of soil liquefaction, a precursory response to the applied stress from seismic tremors along the Pacific "Ring of Fire" and the ongoing geological upheaval on planet Earth.

A sink hole up to 100 feet long and 50 feet deep has opened up on a Sunshine Coast beach. The hole appeared at Inskip Point, Rainbow Beach, a coastal town in south-eastern Queensland, Australia, on Saturday night and continued to grow today.

A massive sink hole is swallowing up the beach at Inskip, north of Tin Can Bay. Campers have told The Courier-Mail the hole, which appeared about 11am, could be up to 100 feet deep. Camper Shane Hillhouse said four-wheel-drives had been travelling along the popular stretch of sand, near Inskip Peninsula, shortly before the hole appeared. "This has the potential to take the tip of Inskip Point with it – this is huge and on a scale I’ve never seen before," he said. "People are bringing chairs and sitting back to watch it in awe. "This is absolutely amazing – it’s almost at the tree line now." Mr Hillhouse said the sink hole had expanded dramatically since 11am. 

"It’s three times bigger than it was an hour ago," he said. "Chunks are falling out of the beach into nowhere. Where is the sand going? It’s just incredible." Another camper said sand was dropping 150m into the ocean, although the depth of the hole is unknown. "Sand is sinking in big sections," he said. No one is believed to have been injured. Gympie police duty officer Sergeant Vic Tipman said sink holes – which swallowed portions of beach as big as houses – were common at Inskip. "Normally it will be between Inskip Point and where the barge goes across," he said. "The sand just erodes from underneath the current and all of a sudden half the beach disappears. "You’ve got to be careful driving up there." Sergeant Tipman said it was only a matter of time before someone was injured. "The potential is always there," he said. "About once every two or three years a piece as big as a house or maybe two house blocks disappear in the sand. "It would be hundreds of metres wide. Big areas get washed out. What’s going to happen one day is Inskip Point is not going to be there anymore." - Courier Mail.

WATCH: Massive sinkhole in Rainbow Beach.

GEOLOGICAL UPHEAVAL: 100-Foot Sinkhole in Rainbow Beach?!

A sink hole up to 100 feet long and 50 feet deep has opened up on a Sunshine Coast beach. The hole appeared at Inskip Point, Rainbow Beach, a coastal town in south-eastern Queensland, Australia, on Saturday night and continued to grow today.

A massive sink hole is swallowing up the beach at Inskip, north of Tin Can Bay. Campers have told The Courier-Mail the hole, which appeared about 11am, could be up to 100 feet deep. Camper Shane Hillhouse said four-wheel-drives had been travelling along the popular stretch of sand, near Inskip Peninsula, shortly before the hole appeared. "This has the potential to take the tip of Inskip Point with it – this is huge and on a scale I’ve never seen before," he said. "People are bringing chairs and sitting back to watch it in awe. "This is absolutely amazing – it’s almost at the tree line now." Mr Hillhouse said the sink hole had expanded dramatically since 11am. 

"It’s three times bigger than it was an hour ago," he said. "Chunks are falling out of the beach into nowhere. Where is the sand going? It’s just incredible." Another camper said sand was dropping 150m into the ocean, although the depth of the hole is unknown. "Sand is sinking in big sections," he said. No one is believed to have been injured. Gympie police duty officer Sergeant Vic Tipman said sink holes – which swallowed portions of beach as big as houses – were common at Inskip. "Normally it will be between Inskip Point and where the barge goes across," he said. "The sand just erodes from underneath the current and all of a sudden half the beach disappears. "You’ve got to be careful driving up there." Sergeant Tipman said it was only a matter of time before someone was injured. "The potential is always there," he said. "About once every two or three years a piece as big as a house or maybe two house blocks disappear in the sand. "It would be hundreds of metres wide. Big areas get washed out. What’s going to happen one day is Inskip Point is not going to be there anymore." - Courier Mail.

WATCH: Massive sinkhole in Rainbow Beach.