Ground fissures and tectonic faults are significant geological features that can have profound impacts on urban infrastructure and natural landscapes. Ground fissures are cracks in the Earth's ...

Earth fissures, a linear opening in the ground, are also a result of subsidence. They start forming as hairline cracks below the surface and experts believe they go hundreds of feet deep ...

Geologists examine a massive fissure in Arizona and find that may have existed way before it caught public attention.

He added that sections of Nakuru's Central Business District (CBD) were also sitting on fissures " but most of the water do not sink into the ground as it normally flows into the drainage system ...

Raini noted that apart from being hazardous, ground fissures degrade the environment when sewage water, refuse and garbage enter into the groundwater systems through the sinkholes. The governor ...