From: Oil & Gas Online
Satellite radar images reveal ground movement
of infamous sinkholes near Wink, Texas; suggest the two existing holes
are expanding, and new ones are forming as nearby subsidence occurs at
an alarming rate.
Residents of Wink and neighboring Kermit have grown accustomed to the
two giant sinkholes that sit between their small West Texas towns.
But now radar images taken of the sinkholes by an orbiting space satellite reveal big changes may be on the horizon.
A new study by geophysicists at Southern Methodist University, Dallas,
finds the massive sinkholes are unstable, with the ground around them
subsiding, suggesting the holes could pose a bigger hazard sometime in
the future. MORE
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