• New burp and slough-in events reported at Louisiana sinkhole

    Assumption Parish Police Jury reported a new slough-in event near Pad #3 at Louisiana sinkhole on March 31, 2014 as Texas Brine Co. released pressure from its failed salt dome cavern near the sinkhole.

    The latest slough-in event came five days after six

  • Airborne radar demonstrates ability to foresee sinkholes

    New analyses of NASA airborne radar data collected in 2012 reveal the radar detected indications of a huge sinkhole before it collapsed and forced evacuations near Bayou Corne, Louisiana, that year.

    The findings suggest such radar data, if collected routinely from

  • Southern berm of Louisiana sinkhole sagging

    An increasing trend of seismic activity at the Bayou Corne sinkhole near Oxy 3 cavern placed the sinkhole staff back on highest level alert late December 2013. Since August 2012 the sinkhole grew from 1 to more than 25 acres (10 hectares / 100 000