Sinkholes appear in Amazon as Brazilian city declares emergency - Buriticupu, in the Brazilian Amazon, has declared an emergency in the face of these sinkholes ...

Authorities in Brazil have declared an emergency in the municipality of Buriticupu because of massive sinkholes that swallowed homes and are threatening hundreds more in the Amazon. Stunning video ...

The city of Buriticupu, in the northeastern tip of the Brazilian Amazon, is being slowly swallowed by the earth. In recent weeks, huge sinkholes, several meters (feet) deep, have led the municipal ...

An entire town in Brazil could be swallowed up by the earth. The municipality of Buriticupu, home to 55,000 residents, has declared a state of calamity as sinkholes have been threatening homes.

The Justice Department said it would appeal.

THOUSANDS of people are at risk of losing their homes as a terrifying sinkhole forced a Brazilian city into a state of emergency. Shocking images from the city of Buriticupu, in the northeast of ...

in the north eastern tip of the Brazilian Amazon, have already been destroyed with 1,200 people at risk of losing their homes to the widening abyss. The city’s government said of the sinkholes ...

An entire town in Brazil could be swallowed up by the earth. The municipality of Buriticupu, home to 55,000 residents, has declared a state of calamity as sinkholes have been threatening homes.

in the north-eastern tip of the Brazilian Amazon, is being slowly swallowed by the earth. In recent weeks, huge sinkholes, several metres deep, have led the municipal government to declare a state ...

A city in Brazil has declared a state of emergency after a number of huge sinkholes opened up in recent weeks. Several buildings in the city of Buriticupu, in the north eastern tip of the ...