Posted on 09/24/2025 7:25:22 AM PDT by lowbridge
A huge sinkhole measuring 98 square feet has opened up on a road in Bangkok, Thailand, disrupting traffic and prompting evacuations.
Part of Samsen Road in the Thai capital — which is in the midst of monsoon season — collapsed in front of a school at around 7:00 a.m. local time on Wednesday, Sept 24, according to the Royal Thai Police (RTP). The hole is also very close to a hospital and a police station.
“Vajira Hospital, Samsen Road, Dusit District, Bangkok, is a hole 30 x 30 meters wide [98 feet x 98 feet], 50 meters deep [160 feet], and has a tendency to collapse further. Later, at the scene, two electric poles fell and there was a station car,” a release from the RTP read.
The hole has reportedly resulted in damage to the nearby Samsen Metropolitan Police Station, with two of its electric poles and their tow truck falling in, per local newspaper The Nation. Two other vehicles also fell into the hole, according to The Sydney Morning Herald and the Associated Press.
Footage posted online showed the event happening. It forced a hospital to evacuate, and nearby residents to leave their homes, The Nation reported.
Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt said that the hole was caused by construction work on a subway station, per the outlets.
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THAILAND?!
How do you measure a 3 dimensional object with 2 dimensional nomenclature for $500, Alex
Exactly !!!!!!!
What is an Abacus Alex
hole 30 x 30 meters wide [98 feet x 98 feet] vs
sinkhole measuring 98 square feet
Someone’s math is off
That's just a baby! (10 X 10 feet, if square; 5.5 ft diameter)
Like this: 98 feet x 98 feet = 98 square feet
I learned that in kindergarten.
Umm, GingisK, that’s 11 ft diameter.
Isn’t pointing out math errors racist?
does this qualify as a sinkhole?
it looks like a lot of human built structure under the roadway
if a car on the top floor of a parking garage fell through a hole in the roadway, would you call that a sinkhole?
I doubt you learned.
In Florida, we have real sinkholes. That is not a sink hole, that is a structural failure.
Those may be pilings driven into the ground to support the building structures. That means the ground there was already known to be "fluid". Building over swamp land is kind of dicey.
I think what you see are pilings; and, the earth washed out from around them. It was a sink hole, but on ground well known to lack firmness.
Maft is raciss.
Karsty!
That is exactly what I was thinking.
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