Japanese authorities have asked hundreds of residents near Tokyo to evacuate as a sinkhole at an intersection grew to more ...

Within a few minutes of their arrival crews witnessed a car fall into a sinkhole that had developed ... in the process of finding out which buildings were impacted by the flooding.

YASHIO, Saitama Prefecture--Rescue workers completed building a ramp in a desperate attempt to reach a truck driver trapped for days inside a sinkhole here. Saitama Governor Motohiro Ono visited ...

That sinkhole was roughly the size and depth of a four-story building and kept the highway closed for four days. It was found to have been caused by the collapse of an abandoned mineshaft ...

The 40-foot- by 40-foot sinkhole, the size of a four-story building, opened up at about 7:30 a.m. in the shoulder of the eastbound lane, just north of Wharton, then reached the far righthand lane.

resulting in the expansion of the sinkhole. The driver was “buried in earth and sand, and if we bring heavy equipment near the asphalt it might fall in,” he said. He said rescue workers are ...