Sentence examples for for sinkhole from inspiring English sources

But natural sinkholes are particularly common in Florida, where insurance claims for sinkhole damages submitted between 2006 and 2010 totalled $1.4bn £900mm).

One has only to visit Mexico's most famous Mayan ruins, at Chichen Itzá, to gape at the ominous maw of a large dzonot — Mayan for "sinkhole" — adjacent to which the Maya erected temples and pyramids.

One has only to visit Mexico's most famous Mayan ruins, at Chichen Itzá, to gape at the ominous maw of a large dzonot Mayan for "sinkhole"—adjacent to which the Maya erected temples and pyramids.

The suggested method was compared to traditional techniques for sinkhole mapping which use topographic maps and digital terrain modelling.

One significant advantage of our automated approach for sinkhole extraction is that it may reduce inconsistencies and alleviate repeatability concerns associated with visual interpretation methods.

In this paper, the distributed Brillouin optical fiber sensor was proposed to measure the sinkhole collapse strain, a long-term monitoring model test for sinkhole collapse was conducted which can provide the distributed collapse time-series strain.

As I have said, this month has been an exceptional one for sinkholes.

Chalk mines were accessed by a vertical shaft which creates dangerous conditions for sinkholes.

Florida and Tennessee are the only two US states which offer insurance to protect and cover home owners for sinkholes.

Then they look for evidence of underground streams and for sinkholes — sometimes many miles square — where rain and runoff get funnelled into the rock.

Mr Bush told reporters that someone had visited the four-bedroom house some weeks ago to check for sinkholes and other issues but found nothing wrong.