Massive Sinkhole Appears in Chile Leaving a Deep Void in The Atacama Desert @TheCosmosNews

#thecosmosnews Mystery sinkhole ranks among deepest in the world Hundreds of cubic feet of earth gave way to form a gigantic sinkhole measuring 600-plus feet deep, puzzling experts working to figure out what triggered the massive implosion.A huge sinkhole measuring larger than a tennis court suddenly opened up near a copper mining operation in Chile, swallowing large chunks of soil, and investigators are trying to figure out what exactly triggered one of the largest ground collapses in the world. The enormous pit in Tierra Amarilla, in the country’s Atacama Desert region, measures 105-feet-wide (32 meters) and about 650-feet-deep (200 meters), according to Chile’s National Geology and Mining Service, Sernageomin. Hundreds of cubic feet of soil caved in on Saturday and investigators with Sernageomin were immediately called in. They visited the site to examine the hole and to determine what might have caused such a massive ground collapse. So far, it’s got them baffled. As they work on pinpointing what caused the sinkhole, one thing is clear: The deep chasm appears to be widening with each day. The sinkhole was initially measured at 82-feet-wide, but the next day the agency reported that its actual dimensions were 105 feet.