According to Jessica Piper, the spokesperson of the Nordhausen district, the crater is 30 meters (98 feet) wide and up to 50 meters (164 feet) deep.
Nobody was injured, and the cause is still unknown. amidst one of the worst floods that germany has seen in decades a massive sinkhole has opened up in the western german village of erftstadtblessem pictures. Since 1993, over $12 million has been utilized for these property acquisitions. A huge sinkhole opened up between two buildings in the city of Nordhausen, Thuringia, Germany on February 19, 2016. These acquisitions provide benefits to the public in terms of flood control, stream and groundwater quality protection, wildlife habitat, and recreational uses. Storm water bond issue funds allocated for this program are used to make voluntary acquisitions of flood prone properties as well as undeveloped acreage in floodplain and sinkhole areas and along riparian (stream) corridors.
Germany flood sinkhole torrent#
Mobile phone networks and internet connections have been been wiped out by the water, hampering search efforts for the missing.The Floodplain Acquisition Program was formed after the flood of 1993, when several homes in the Ferguson Sinkhole area were heavily flooded. But Germany was the hardest hit, with unsuspecting residents caught completely off guard by the torrent dubbed the ‘flood of death’ by Germany’s biggest selling newspaper, Bild.
Entire towns and villages have been left devastated after unprecedented rainfall caused rivers to burst their banks. More than 100 people have died and several more are unaccounted for in Germany after some of the worst flooding in decades. Several people are feared dead after a quarry collapsed when a river burst its banks (Picture: AP) Rescuers are desperately searching for survivors (Picture: EPA) Debris of collapsed houses as people are warned not to return to their homes yet (Picture: AP) A district spokesperson warned people not to return to their homes, saying there is 'still danger to life'. The pit is said to be getting 'bigger and bigger' with the erosion spanning more than 300 meters and reaching the outskirts of the town. According to geographer Matthias Habel, the river poured into a gravel pit which can no longer withstand the water pressure. So far more than 150 germans have died in this flood. 'One has to assume that under the circumstances some people didn't manage to escape,' he said. Massive rains in Germany have formed a sinkhole in the western German village of Erftstadt-Blessed. Speaking to German broadcaster n-tv, Mr Rock said authorities had no number yet for how many had died. Frank Rock, head of the county administration, said 50 people were evacuated on Thursday night and officials know of 15 more residents who need to be rescued. Search and rescue operations are ongoing for hundreds more still unaccounted for or in danger. Heavy rainfall and devastating floods have left at least 110 people dead in parts of western Germany and Belgium. 'Houses were largely swept away by the water and some collapsed,' the Cologne local authority said on Twitter. Several people in a west German town have died after their houses collapsed when the ground beneath them sank suddenly.Heavy rainfall and devastating floods. Rescuers rushed Friday to help people trapped in their homes in the town of Erftstadt, southwest of Cologne. A spokeswoman for the local government said there were 'confirmed' deaths, but did not say how many. Homes and part of a castle in Blessem, near Cologne, were demolished when the banks of the River Erft burst, causing a nearby quarry to collapse. At least 70 people have died in Germany and Belgium after record rainfall caused rivers to burst their banks. Rescuers are rushing to help people trapped in their homes in the town of Erftstadt, southwest of Cologne (Picture: AP) 'Several' people have died in a landslide which hit a flood-damaged town in northern Germany on Friday. Another 43 people were confirmed dead in neighbouring North Rhine-Westphalia state, Germany's most populous, in the country's worst natural disaster in half a century.
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