Daily Mail: "Terrifying holes that are opening up all over Britain: They're appearing at FIVE TIMES their normal rate and further bad weather could mean we haven't seen the last of them" (photos)

* Les extrêmes des températures ne peuvent pas expliquer la majorité des "sinkholes" (dolines).  Ces trous béants apparaissent partout dans le monde de façon marquée depuis environ 2 ans.  C'est un phénomène qui est bien plus vaste et préoccupant que ce que les médias tentent de nous le faire croire.  Les théories sur la création instantannée de ces "sinkholes" abondent sur le web et il est très difficile de comprendre ce qui se passe vraiment. Chose certaine, la multiplication de ces affaissements n'annoncent rien de bien rassurant.

Gigantesque "sinkhole" apparu au Guatemala en 2010.

On Saturday, a huge sinkhole opened up at the side of a house in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. Swallowing up half of the front lawn, it was 35ft wide and 20ft deep.

Last week, a hole as deep as a double-decker bus is high suddenly opened up in the back-garden of a house in South-East London, almost swallowing a child’s trampoline as the ground collapsed without warning.

Had the poor owner’s daughter been rushing out to play on the trampoline, she could have very easily have been seriously injured or even killed. 

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