Published August 9, 2022 04:51PM
How Many Breakfast Burritos Could Fit in the Giant Chilean Sinkhole?
Trying to wrap your head around the depth of the rapidly expanding pit in South America? We’ve broken it down in terms our readers understand—like fly rods, climbing ropes, and breakfast burritos.
Who knows where it leads. (Photo: Johan Godoy/Getty)
There’s a sinkhole in Chile that’s growing fast—it doubled in size over the past week—and has caused the shutdown of a nearby copper mine. According to the most recent estimate, the potential hellmouth was 164 feet wide and 656 feet deep, and people on the internet have been trying to quantify that the way they do best: by telling us all the things we could stack inside it. Notable comparisons include four of Paris’s Arc de Triomphes and one Seattle Space Needle.
