A second sinkhole has appeared in Tampa, Florida on Monday just a mile from the notorious sinkhole that opened up underneath a home last week and swallowed a man who was in his bedroom on his bed.
This sinkhole opened up between two homes and was approximately 3 feet deep and 12-feet round around the edge and in the center, 5 feet deep said Willie Puz who is the Hillsborough County spokesman to Reuters.
Though nearby, this sinkhole is not related to the one that opened in 37-year-old Jeff Bush's bedroom killing him.
CNN reported that a fire department spokesperson said that the man from Tampa called out to his brother as he fell into the hole.
"I heard a loud crash, like a car coming through the house," the man's brother, Jeremy Bush, said to CNN affiliate WFTS. "I heard my brother screaming and I ran back there and tried going inside his room, but my old lady turned the light on and all I seen was this big hole, a real big hole, and all I saw was his mattress."
Reuters reported that the hole was about 30 feet wide and 60 feet deep and they were not able to retrieve Bush's body. The home was demolished before efforts will start to begin to stabilize the sinkhole and two nearby houses have been evacuated.
Bush was living in the home with his brother, Jeremy Bush, 36, and four others.
With the sinkhole expanding, engineers placed listening devices, microphones, ground-penetrating radar and other equipment testing the soil on the site to seek a safety zone to work and any sign of life below. They detected no such sign.
"I'm the only one who tried to get him out," said Jeremy Bush to Reuters.
National Geographic states that a sinkhole is "basically any collapsed or bowl-shaped feature that's formed when a void under the ground creates a depression into which everything around it drains."
There are two different kinds of sinkholes. One is called a cover-subsidence sinkhole and it occurs in sandier soles. "As the soil above transports itself into that cave in the rock, the ground slowly subsides. So it's not catastrophic. It subsides over time. It could be over years; it could be over hundreds of thousands of years," states National Geographic.
The other kind of sinkhole is a cover-collapse sinkhole which is the kind that occurred in Florida. "It tends to occur in clay, because clay holds soil together like glue. As with cover subsidence, soil is leaching into a cave below, but it creates a void in the soil that moves upward. You can't see it on the surface. Then, all of a sudden, the bridge over top of that void can't hold anymore and it collapses-just like we saw in Florida last week," reported National Geographic.
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