The Sinking Reason Your Sinkholes Steal Towns From You #Shorts

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]On May 30th, 2010, a perfectly circular sinkhole 60 ft wide and 300 ft deep opened in Guatemala City and swallowed a three-story garment factory in under 10 seconds.

[00:00:15]No one heard cracking.

[00:00:17]The ground simply ceased to exist.

[00:00:20]Geologists later confirmed the city sits on hundreds of feet of pumice, volcanic ash so porous it behaves like a sponge.

[00:00:29]Tropical Storm Agatha had dumped record rains days earlier and a ruptured storm water pipe quietly liquefied the pumice from below for weeks.

[00:00:39]Subscribe. Tomorrow's one is even more surprising.

[00:00:43]By the time the surface failed, a cathedral-sized cavity already existed directly under the building.

[00:00:50]Florida, Mexico, and parts of China sit on similar