There are two types of sinkholes: Slow-growing cover-subsidence sinkholes are the most common, but cover-collapse sinkholes can appear in just a matter of hours and are triggered in roughly the ...

The Shippensburg Borough is continuing to monitor repairs being made to a sinkhole that uprooted multiple families from their ...

The opening of the sinkhole, originally about the size of a utility access hole cover, had grown to about ... occur in the area because of subsidence from coal mining activity.

The state Department of Environmental Protection will address a mine subsidence in Mayfield after a sinkhole opened up in a resident’s yard over the weekend, according to borough and state ...

Hidden underground danger:North Jersey's 600 abandoned mines New Jersey is susceptible to the effects of sinkholes and subsidence, or the sinking of the ground, primarily in the northern region of ...

Officials from Foresight Energy told the Montgomery County Emergency Management Agency on Wednesday that they had started the last planned subsidence, or collapse of the sinkhole. Despite the ...