Author: Jessica Leigh Hester / Source: Atlas Obscura
One morning last week, when dairy farm workers in Rotoura, New Zealand, made their early-morning lap to check in on the cows, they saw something much more startling than a lounging ruminant.
A jagged hole had opened up overnight. It cut a scar across the verdant landscape, dropping 66 feet deep and yawning 656 feet long. Anyone who stood at the edge of the grass and looked down into the crevice would be peering into thousands of years of geological history.
These types of collapse holes are common in the region, notes GeoNet, a project of New Zealand’s Earthquake Commission. The area sits near volcanic faults, and on the…
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