The whole world is agitated by the news of unexplained soil crashes in different parts of the planet. Mankind is concerned that the earth literally began to leave underfoot. Increasingly, messages are received from different countries in which soil dips are found. Of course, people are excited about this problem, but try not to notice it and do not want to talk about it. However, it cannot be invisible that playgrounds, houses, roads, cars, garages, etc. go underground. In other words, the infrastructure created by man is collapsing, and often people die at the same time. What are these natural disasters threatening us with? And is there any human involvement?
Many adhere to the version that the Earth thus avenges humanity. Indeed, a lot of harm is done to people around the world, polluting and destroying what is created by nature.
Causes of soil failures
Specialists studying the collapse of the soil, argue that the failure of the soil occurs for the following reasons:
- due to the collapse of natural voids in the soil;
- due to the fact that groundwater erodes the soil;
- due to erosion of the soil by water during leakage from pipes;
- due to the fact that abandoned underground structures deteriorate and deform over time;
- due to various construction works that are carried out near a possible failure;
- due to many resonant phenomena when vibration acts on the ground;
- due to the composition of the soil, if it includes rocks that dissolve in water.
The consequences of soil dips
The most important result of soil collapse is the formation of a depression on the earth's surface. Often such a pit reaches considerable size and can cause emergency situations.
So, for example, soil dips near buildings can lead to the destruction of buildings. If the collapse of the soil occurs on the roadway, this can lead to car accidents, the pavement leaving the ground along with vehicles that are in this place. Railways with trains passing through them during ground failure can also be affected. All this leads to colossal material damage and loss of life.
How to save our planet from perdition and survive on our own if more and more often in various places there are soil failures that a person is not able to predict and prevent?
Moscow goes underground
It's no secret that in Russia there are a lot of incidents related to subsidence of the soil. Take at least our capital. In 2013 alone, more than a dozen soil crashes were recorded in different parts of Moscow. There were many cases in the subway when, due to such a cataclysm, the movement of underground trains was disrupted, which led to a mass panic of passengers.
Consider the most famous soil dips in Moscow in 2014:
- A pit formed at Komsomolsky Prospekt at a pedestrian crossing 15 cm deep.
- On Nikoloyamskaya street in the center of the city, a hollow appeared on the territory of the Temple.
- The carriageway and sidewalks failed on 2nd Yamskaya-Tverskaya near the Khayyam restaurant.
- In Tagansky district, two land failures occurred at once in one place near the Klyuchevsky library.
- On Rublevskoye highway , a dip with a diameter of 1 by 1.5 meters was formed.
- A pit 10 cm deep appeared on the roadway near the sidewalk on Malaya Ordynka .
- In the center of Moscow on the street Baltschug there was a failure of the soil with a depth of 1 meter.
Soil collapse in the capital in 2015
The new year 2015, not having time to begin, has already been replenished with a list of places in which soil failures have occurred.
So, in February of this year in the north-west of Moscow due to weather conditions a well of 50 by 30 cm in size was formed, into which a truck hit with a wheel. And in March 2015, there was a subsidence of soil on the street of the 800th anniversary of Moscow, where asphalt fell through a garbage truck.
The last incident was recorded on March 10, 2015: pits 20-30 cm deep were found near the main entrance to the Botanical Garden.
Other cases of soil subsidence in Russia
In our country, the most famous place where the failure of the soil happened is Berezniki, Perm Region. Over the 5 years since 2006, when the potash mine was flooded, three huge funnels formed, the diameter of which ranged from 70 to 400 meters. The largest of them appeared on the territory of the technical salt factory. The second funnel was discovered at the Berezniki railway station, and the third - at the building of the Berezniki mine construction department. Subsequently, the two funnels connected into one.
In 2015, there were reports of the threat of a new failure in Berezniki in a residential area. Residents of eight houses were resettled from the danger zone. The area of settled soil is 30 square meters and a depth of 5 meters.
In Russia, such cases occur regularly. So, soil failures are known in Yakutia, Solikamsk (Perm Territory), Nizhny Novgorod Region, Kaliningrad, Ufa and in many other cities.
Similar incidents abroad
Other countries did not remain aloof from this inexplicable cataclysm. Many of the funnels formed are still puzzles for scientists and specialists who have not yet found an explanation for them. And many experts were simply afraid to approach huge pits, fearing for their lives.
The largest soil dips in the world:
- Ukraine, 1997. In Dnepropetrovsk, a nine-story house, a kindergarten, three Khrushchevs, and a school fell underground. In 2008 in Lugansk the same fate befell an apartment located on the ground floor of a two-story building.
- The most global failures occur in China. So, in 2010, over the course of six months, several huge soil subsidence appeared in different places of the country.
- No less widespread is the failure of the soil in South Africa, which occurred in 1962. Then a completely residential building and a factory went underground.
- In Florida in 2013, a young man fell to the bottom of the failure that formed in the middle of the room of his house.
- In Guatemala, in 2010, a funnel formed more than 100 meters deep, killing fifteen people, swallowing a three-story building.
The USA, Mexico, India, Thailand, China, Ukraine, Russia - this is not the whole list of countries that suffered a natural anomaly. We can only hope that all the cataclysms will soon find their interpretation, and scientists will be able to learn how to prevent their further occurrence. In the meantime, we live in fear for ourselves and our children, who have to eliminate the consequences of disasters that are our fault.