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He and his brave rescuer were very, very fortunate!
Could be just a coincidence, but since scientists are thinking that seismic waves from distant earthquakes might be able to trigger the collapse of unstable underground caverns, I wondered about the earthquake that took place yesterday less than 100 miles southeast of the sinkhole.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-small-earthquake-hits-southern-illinois-near-benton-20130311,0,578522.story
Here's a map of the approximate locations:
http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=benton,+il&daddr=Waterloo,+IL&hl=en&ll=38.156157,-89.533081&spn=2.431702,3.532104&sll=38.315801,-88.92334&sspn=4.852188,7.064209&geocode=FazIQwId-y-z-inbEZMzDdd2iDH2EuAa-FS0PQ%3BFY71SAIdNmyg-inBa_DlYqLYhzGh5JEcIvcImw&gl=us&mra=ls&t=m&z=8
'I was just freefalling': Golfer plunges into Illinois sinkhole
By Jim Surh, The Associated Press
(AP Photo/Courtesy Golfmanna)
ST. LOUIS - Suddenly being swallowed up by the earth on a golf course's fairway drove a wedge between Mark Mihal and a stellar round.
The 43-year-old mortgage broker was counting his blessings Tuesday and nursing a dislocated shoulder sustained four days earlier when he tumbled into an 18-foot deep sinkhole on the 14th hole of the Annbriar Golf Club near Waterloo, Ill., just southeast of St. Louis...
He and his brave rescuer were very, very fortunate!
Could be just a coincidence, but since scientists are thinking that seismic waves from distant earthquakes might be able to trigger the collapse of unstable underground caverns, I wondered about the earthquake that took place yesterday less than 100 miles southeast of the sinkhole.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-small-earthquake-hits-southern-illinois-near-benton-20130311,0,578522.story
Here's a map of the approximate locations:
http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=benton,+il&daddr=Waterloo,+IL&hl=en&ll=38.156157,-89.533081&spn=2.431702,3.532104&sll=38.315801,-88.92334&sspn=4.852188,7.064209&geocode=FazIQwId-y-z-inbEZMzDdd2iDH2EuAa-FS0PQ%3BFY71SAIdNmyg-inBa_DlYqLYhzGh5JEcIvcImw&gl=us&mra=ls&t=m&z=8