This comprehensive exploration highlights colossal sinkholes such as the Great Blue Hole in Belize, China’s Xiaozhai Tiankeng, and the Batagaika Crater in Siberia.

Famed as the world’s deepest sinkhole, the Xiaozhai Tiankeng in China’s Fengjie County is a naturally impressive sight. Although it did not form abruptly to devour any neighborhood, its colossal ...

Peering over the forest-draped ridges of southwestern China, a scar nearly half a mile wide across yawns open, so sheer that light seems to drain straight into the earth. Xiaozhai Tiankeng, also known ...

When the weakened surface collapses into the cavern, it creates a sinkhole. They vary in size, from very small to the huge one seen at Xiaozhai Tiankeng in China, known as the Xiaozhai Heavenly Pit.

Though The Eagle is deep, it doesn’t compare to the largest sinkhole in the world, Xiaozhai Tiankeng. This massive sinkhole is 2,172 feet deep and found in Chongqing, China. It isn’t a recent ...

Photo Credit: user Brookqi / Wikipedia Commons, Xiaozhai tiankeng, S-China, near Chongqing. Xiaozhai Tiankeng, the “Heavenly Pit” is the world’s deepest sinkhole between 511-662 meters deep. It’s so ...

Called the Xiaozhai tiankeng, it is almost 2,200 feet (670 meters) deep! Sinkholes that form in coral reefs or islands can often be very deep and filled with water. They're known as blue holes, ...

The newly discovered forest sinkhole is the largest in the region. The world’s largest sinkhole China is also home to the world’s largest sinkhole, the Xiaozhai Tiankeng, in Fengjie County, Chongqing.