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An earthen funnel in the state last week Louisiana, USA, continues to deepen, becoming a serious threat for enterprises and residential areas located next to it. Ground subsidence appeared in the forest, having managed to reach area of 1395 m2. The funnel swallowed a section of the road used forest services during clearing.
Two settlements adjacent to the place of origin of the funnel, with 150 houses, were fully evacuated to safe place. So far, predictions about when to people will be allowed to return home and whether at all, is not available. Businesses expressed concerns about their investments, invested in projects near the scene.
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According to the results of ultrasound, the cause of subsidence soil could become a reservoir or cave with salt water, which located in the bowels of the earth just in Louisiana. But why a funnel appeared right now, scientists do not have specific answers have. Unknown substance was discovered on the hole surface origin resembling a mixture of soil and sand in a strange proportions.
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Everyone is worried that besides subsidence in a small radius from the funnel felt underground tremors. Most likely they appear at the moment the gases exit the underground cave.
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