PUEBLA — A giant sinkhole that was expanding by dozens of meters each day has alarmed residents in a rural area of central Mexico where it was threatening to swallow a house.
When the Sanchez family heard a loud crash on Saturday they first thought that it was a lightning strike.
But they soon discovered that the ground had collapsed just meters from their home in a field in Santa Maria Zacatepec in the state of Puebla.
The hole, which is full of water, was about 30 meters (nearly 100 feet) wide by Sunday.
It rapidly grew to 60 meters on Monday and around 80 meters on Tuesday, the authorities said, coming perilously close to the house of the Sanchez family, who fear they…
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