Socavón, in Valle de Chalco, Edomex, devours a man

Sinkhole in Valle de Chalco, Edomex, devours a man
The sinkhole was formed in the patio of a house. Photo: Cuartoscuro / Illustrative

A video circulating on social networks shows the formation of a sinkhole in the courtyard of a house located in Chalco Valley, in the Mexico state. In the images, it can be seen that a man is checking the patio of his home when, suddenly, the cement begins to sink. The subject was “devoured” by the hole in the ground.

Video of man “devoured” by sinkhole in his house

The video shows that a man is checking the patio of his home, where there is a parked car, and inspecting a small hole. Apparently, the water, probably from the rains, softened the cement and led to the formation of the sinkhole.

After checking and looking inside the hole, the cement ends up coming loose and the man falls into it. After the blow, he manages to support his feet and hands to be able to get out of it. There he ends the recording.

And social media user identified as @taltroni was the one who spread the video of the event, and explained that the person who fell into the sinkhole was his father; Also, it was specified that the The address where the incident occurred is in Chalco, Colonia Cerro del Márquez.

“Yesterday there was a hole in my home, my father fell, this happens in Valle de Chalco, Cerro del Márquez neighborhood. My name is Rodrigo”.

Wrote the user on social networks.

Sinkholes in other states

Chalco Valley, Mexicois not the only entity where sinkholes are formed, at the beginning of August, In Hermosillo, the capital of the state of Sonora, the story of a couple who had to be rescued from their home after, due to the rains, a sinkhole and affect your home.

And perhaps the most famous sinkhole is the one in Puebla, formed in 2021 on farmland in Santa María Zacatepec.

Experts from the Institute of Geology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) they explained that the sinkholes are formed due to suffusion erosion (piping) caused by groundwater; namely, by internal wear of the fine particles found within the soil and that over time cause collapses and subsidence; though They can also be associated with the degradation of the surface, deforestation, change and modification in its use, among other factors.

  • The formation of these cavities is not recent, because this type of phenomenon has been happening for a long time in Mexico and in other parts of the world. They agreed to point out that prevention is an important aspect to safeguard the population, they explained last year.

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