{"id":11308,"date":"2010-06-01T11:05:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T17:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=11308"},"modified":"2010-06-01T04:20:39","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T10:20:39","slug":"in-guatemala-hundimiento-spontaneous-sinkholes-caused-by-tropical-storm-agatha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/in-guatemala-hundimiento-spontaneous-sinkholes-caused-by-tropical-storm-agatha\/","title":{"rendered":"In Guatemala: &#8220;Hundimiento.&#8221; Spontaneous Sinkholes Caused By Tropical Storm Agatha"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/05\/31\/guatemala-first-volc.html\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/undimiento.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"undimiento\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/undimiento.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/undimiento-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\nAbove, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gobiernodeguatemala\/4657053554\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">this photo just posted <\/a>to the Guatemalan Government&#8217;s Flickr feed shows a massive, spontaneous sinkhole (&#8220;hundimiento&#8221;) that appeared today in Zone 2 of Guatemala City, after overwhelming saturation of rains from tropical storm Agatha. Not Photoshop, sadly: these happen from time to time during major storms in part because of unstable geology (and bad urban engineering\u00e2\u20ac\u201dread more about it in the comments). There are rumors of similar sinkholes now forming nearby. See it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/mapmaker?hl=es&#038;gw=10&#038;ll=14.65213,-90.505932&#038;spn=0.002247,0.003294&#038;t=h&#038;z=18\" class=\"external external_icon\">on Google Maps<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More news on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/05\/31\/guatemala-first-volc.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">how to help<\/a> and what&#8217;s going on<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/05\/31\/guatemala-first-volc.html\" class=\"external external_icon\"> at BoingBoing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/05\/31\/guatemala-first-volc.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">boingboing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mattstaggs\" class=\"external external_icon\">@mattstaggs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above, this photo just posted to the Guatemalan Government&#8217;s Flickr feed shows a massive, spontaneous sinkhole (&#8220;hundimiento&#8221;) that appeared today in Zone 2 of Guatemala City, after overwhelming saturation of rains from tropical storm Agatha. Not Photoshop, sadly: these happen from time to time during major storms in part because of unstable geology (and bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265,6],"tags":[201,1704,2387,2389,259,2388,120,2386],"class_list":["post-11308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-world","tag-boingboing","tag-flickr","tag-guatemala","tag-natural-disasters","tag-sad-now","tag-sinkholes","tag-the-end-times","tag-tropical-storm-agatha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11311,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11308\/revisions\/11311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}