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A huge sinkhole is seen on a street in Hakata, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Tuesday morning. Police said the road caved in at around 5:15 a.m. about 100 meters from JR Hakata Station, causing blackouts and traffic delays. No injuries were reported. Officials said the cave-in may be linked to construction work for the Nanakuma subway line. The Bank of Fukuoka also reported that its online systems had suffered a glitch, possibly due to the cave-in.
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Sinkhole in Hakata
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Aly Rustom
Looks like something out of a movie! WOW!
Dan Lewis
That title!!! "まるで中国" (Just like China) lololol
smithinjapan
Thank the gods no one was hurt. That is a pretty massive hole. Seems like in this case it was man made, indirectly at least.
jonobugs
Wow. There is also an underground walkway beside that area where people can lock up their bikes and it's also near the underground shopping area. Crazy!
ACrowe
ATMs at Fukuoka Bank have been knocked offline because of this.
rainyday
I used to live in Fukuoka and have ridden my bike over that exact spot on numerous occasions, its right between Hakata Station and Canal City. Hope nobody fell in.
Strangerland
Wow, they just said it's 20 meters deep! I wasn't realizing that it's half filled with water when I guessed earlier.
No one has been hurt.
DaDude
Lucky it happened when it did. 3 or 4 hours later could have cost some lives.
Strangerland
Apparently the subway construction was not right there, but in a different location, but they think that something in the construction caused this issue (maybe they broke a water main or something?)
Dennis Bauer
The working underground opened a cavity or a broken water line washed away the lose soil, i think, glad that no one fell in
papigiulio
Saving costs, cutting corners....
Its weird though, I see only a small tunnel but nothing that resembles being worked on a new subway line.
forzaducati
They were tunneling for a new subway line under that road. Something obviously didn't go according to plan.
FernGully
Every time I see one of these, it seems like it's photo-shopped. That's pretty crazy. I'm curious how these sinkholes happen and what can be done to prevent them.
Strangerland
Wow, they are showing it on the news now, it's got to be about 8-10 meters deep! It's huge!
Sensato
Here is the latest video footage of the sinkhole (1:01): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtXkzxCvvFU
Garthgoyle
That must be some scary stuff to see happening.
Strangerland
They were just showing this on the news. Some lady caught video of it shortly after it had opened up, while it was still collapsing into itself - big pieces of street falling into the hole etc. Pretty crazy stuff.
BakabonPapa
It looks like the sinkhole has also caused repetition!
papigiulio
Sjeesh thats not a sinkhole that's a crater. Doesn't anyone check the soil from time to time?