He came out of nowhere. A huge hole suddenly appeared this Sunday on a departmental road near: (Seine-Maritime). Traffic on the Normandy road was immediately closed to allow the intervention of rescue workers and specialists.
The hole is 10 meters in diameter and 7 meters deep, says 76actu . He is "still in training", according to the firefighters, who intervened around 3 p.m. A security perimeter has been set up around the cavity.
A hole ten meters in diameter has formed in Manneville-la-Goupil in the country of Caux https://t.co/VNxzDgQv3z pic.twitter.com/WVMbXtxPzh
- France Bleu Normandie (Seine-Maritime, Eure) (@fbleuhnormandie) January 26, 2020The cause of the hole soon identified
Two pavilions located within this perimeter were evacuated and two families were relocated by the town hall or with relatives. Experts are still unaware of what caused the hole to be created. "It is the services of the Bureau of Geological and Mining Research (BRGM) that will identify this hole," said the firefighters.
It could for example be a marnière, a hole dug suddenly and caused by the exploitation of chalk in the Norman subsoil. But it could also be a concrete block, a sudden depression in the ground in which the runoff comes to nest, says 76actu .
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