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“A block-long sinkhole opened up in a residential neighborhood in rain-soaked Baltimore on Wednesday, devouring cars and forcing the evacuation of several houses.”

Seth Dixon‘s insight:

We like to think that the Earth beneath our feet is solid and that the configuration of the landforms in our neighborhood will be unchanging.  This a dramatic reminder that Earth’s physical processes don’t ever stop–even if we’ve built a city in that spot.

Tags: physical, geomorphology, erosion, landforms, weather and climate, urban ecology.

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