Jun 17, 2010 02:49 PM

With Cave-Ins, Sichuan Gets a Sinking Feeling

By staff reporter Li Hujun

(Beijing) – The world gasped in May when a cylindrical hole 18 meters in diameter and 100 meters deep suddenly opened in the middle of a Guatemala City street.

But a month earlier in China, an even larger cave-in went almost unnoticed. Local media in Sichuan Province's Yibin prefecture reported that several sinkholes had appeared, the largest of which was more than 60 meters in diameter.

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