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Earth Cracking in Wilcox (AZ)
Posted on 07/16/2004 8:36:31 AM PDT by uglybiker
Earth Cracking in Wilcox
Mark Stine KOLD News 13 Reporter
Posted: 7-15-04
"We got probably 10 cars a day on this road, but today we've had close to 100," Robert Rubal said. 100 cars to see a crack. It's causing quite a commotion in Wilcox.
"I heard like a car crash, I looked outside couldn't see nothing and couldn't hear nothing." Little did Robert Rubal know, the earth was opening up right in front of his home.
"This is an earth fissure from groundwater pumping," Ray Harris said. Harris is with the Arizona Geological Survey, he said there are many other earth fissures around Wilcox.
"The water actually supports the sand and gravel a little bit. If you take that support out, that causes some tension because part of the basin is subsiding and the other is not," Harris told KOLD News 13. And the biggest area of difference is where the crack appears.
Cracks are pretty common around Wilcox. They could've formed decades ago, but with the Monsoon rains rushing through the wash and rushing into the crack, they unzipped the earth. "This unzipped overnight, which is the most common form for these to develop at the surface, they weren't here yesterday and they're here today," Harris said."