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November 16, 2016 09:23 am PST

Timelapse of giant sinkhole repair in Japan

English: Watanabe-dori Avenue in Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Image: JKT-c/Wikimedia

It took just days for a construction crew to repair a road that collapsed into a sinkhole in the business district of Fukuoka, Japan.

From CNN:

After the sinkhole appeared on November 8, subcontractors worked around the clock to fill in the 30 meter (98 ft) wide, 15 meter (50 ft) deep hole by the 12th with a mixture of sand and cement. The job was complicated by the water which had seeped in from sewage pipes destroyed by collapsing sections of road.

After that it only took another 48 hours to reinstall all utilities -- electricity, water, sewage, gas and telecommunication lines -- and to resurface the road. There were no reports of injuries.


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