A lot of things I think. One of them is porous ground like limestone, it erodes quickly and added weight can quickly make it collapse in on itself, and a burst pipe can also basically wash the limestone away. There is also water tables that can be lowered, reducing the pressure holding up the ground itself and also mining and fracking activity can contribute to seismic events.
I'm gonna guess the water table under the building got fucked compared to historical between climate change induced rain coming down harder and bigger when it does, poorly maintained and old infrastructure that can't handle seasonal "oNe In 100 YeArS" storms, and paving every surface in a 5 mile radius preventing rain and water from doing its normal thing and redirecting it with storm drains and said old busted infrastructure.
considering it is WV, there is some likelihood that it is due to mine subsidence. Sometimes when a mine is exhausted, people illegally remove support columns of coal or whatever…. sometimes the mines are so old that people just did whatever, and there are so many old mines that are poorly mapped out in some parts of wv/pa that peoples homes regularly sink into the ground. sometimes construction sites hit them and then spend days filling then with rock so that they can continue building
What even causes sink holes like this?
A lot of things I think. One of them is porous ground like limestone, it erodes quickly and added weight can quickly make it collapse in on itself, and a burst pipe can also basically wash the limestone away. There is also water tables that can be lowered, reducing the pressure holding up the ground itself and also mining and fracking activity can contribute to seismic events.
evil
Satan is digging away under them to ease their passage to hell.
I'm gonna guess the water table under the building got fucked compared to historical between climate change induced rain coming down harder and bigger when it does, poorly maintained and old infrastructure that can't handle seasonal "oNe In 100 YeArS" storms, and paving every surface in a 5 mile radius preventing rain and water from doing its normal thing and redirecting it with storm drains and said old busted infrastructure.
considering it is WV, there is some likelihood that it is due to mine subsidence. Sometimes when a mine is exhausted, people illegally remove support columns of coal or whatever…. sometimes the mines are so old that people just did whatever, and there are so many old mines that are poorly mapped out in some parts of wv/pa that peoples homes regularly sink into the ground. sometimes construction sites hit them and then spend days filling then with rock so that they can continue building
the weight of their sins