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Look at this! It’s very impressive! A massive growing sinkhole, which runs along a fault-line at a Tumunui farm, is about 200 metres long, 20 metres wide and 20 metres deep. The huge crater opened up after record rains fell on New Zealand this weekend.
A giant sinkhole has opened up on a farm near Rotorua following Sunday’s record breaking rainfall in the region. The sinkhole, or tomo, was about 200 metres long, 30m wide and 20m deep.
It runs along a fault-line at the Tumunui farm and was discovered by one of the farm’s staff, who went out to get the cows first thing on Monday morning. It’s the ninth serious cave-in that has been on the farm that was at least 10m deep.
“There was one around the other side, I was watching it in the rain, huge amounts of water going in, it wasn’t even filling up with water, it’s just going straight out the bottom.”
The giant sinkhole could get even bigger because there was already a crack which extended 400 to 500 metres through the property.
The farm had 146 millimetres of rain over a 24 hour period on Sunday. According to NIWA, Rotorua had its wettest hour on record with 51.8mm of rain falling between 10am and 11am on Sunday, with a total of 167.8mm of rain falling between 4am on Saturday and 6pm on Sunday.
Well this abyssal sinkhole is not as big as the fissures in Kenya, but this growing earth crack could also damage crops and swallow a few cows or sheep.
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