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Lake Peigneur is a significant sinkhole located in southwestern Louisiana. In 1980, an accidental drilling operation by a salt mine triggered a catastrophic collapse of the underground aquifer system. This resulted in the rapid draining of Lake Peigneur and the sudden submersion of equipment includi...

A significant sinkhole formed in Guatemala City during 2010 following Tropical Storm Agatha’s heavy rains. The collapse involved a dramatic breach of approximately 18 meters, consuming a factory building. This event highlighted underlying urban infrastructure vulnerabilities and poses risks to areas...

A significant sinkhole opened in Guatemala City during 2007. The collapse, resulting from deteriorating sewer infrastructure and porous pumice bedrock, created a dramatic chasm. This event tragically led to fatalities and substantial property damage. It is of interest to geologists studying urban su...

The 2014 National Corvette Museum sinkhole was a dramatic event involving the collapse of a large hole beneath the museum’s showroom in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Eight Corvettes, including several rare and historically significant models from 2014, fell into the void. The incident garnered internatio...

The Bayou Corne sinkhole is a significant geological feature located near Port Fourchon, Louisiana. It formed in 2012 due to the collapse of a large salt dome cavern, triggered by subsurface hydrocarbon extraction activities. The resulting sinkhole displaced residents and created an extensive body o...

Jeans instability is the gravitational instability of a sufficiently large or dense region within a gas when self-gravity overwhelms the pressure effects that resist compression. The dividing scale is commonly expressed through the Jeans length or Jeans mass, which depends on quantities including de...

The 2016 Fukuoka sinkhole was a large road collapse that opened at an intersection near Hakata Station in Fukuoka, Japan, during underground construction for an extension of the city's subway system. The cavity damaged utilities and disrupted traffic, but no serious injuries were reported. Crews fil...

The Winter Park sinkhole was a major geological collapse that occurred in Winter Park, Florida, on May 8, 1981. The event created a large crater that engulfed a public swimming pool, two local businesses, and a Porsche dealership. Because it formed in a developed urban area, it drew national attenti...

Moon of the Crusted Snow is a 2018 post-apocalyptic novel by Anishinaabe author Waubgeshig Rice. It follows a remote First Nations community in northern Ontario after electricity, communications, and supply links abruptly fail as winter approaches. The narrative focuses on community organization, tr...

Super Collapse! is a 2001 tile-matching puzzle game for Windows, released by GameHouse as a downloadable version of the earlier web game Collapse!. Players click groups of three or more same-colored blocks in a rising stack, removing them before the stack reaches the top of the playfield. The releas...

Super Collapse! 3 is a tile-matching puzzle game developed and published by GameHouse in 2006. The gameplay centers on clicking groups of three or more identically colored blocks to clear them from a continuously rising grid. This sequel is notable for introducing the Quest Mode, which provided play...

Collapse! is a tile-matching puzzle game originally developed as a web browser game in 1999 by GameHouse. The core gameplay requires players to click on groups of three or more identically colored blocks to eliminate them before the stack rises to the top of the screen. It gained immense popularity...

Super Collapse! II is a tile-matching puzzle game developed and published by GameHouse in 2002. As the sequel to the original Collapse, players are tasked with clearing groups of three or more identically colored blocks before the stack reaches the top of the screen. The game expanded on the origina...

Wink Sink No. 2 is a large geological sinkhole that opened in Winkler County, Texas, in 2002. It expanded to a diameter of over 250 feet due to groundwater dissolving the underlying salt and gypsum geological formations. The collapse is associated with historical oil field activities in the Hendrick...

"Ravage" (French: "Ravage") is a 1943 science fiction novel by French author René Barjavel that depicts the sudden collapse of modern civilization in Paris. In the novel, all electrical devices simultaneously stop working without explanation, causing rapid societal breakdown as food supplies dwindle...

QBeez 2 is a tile-matching puzzle game developed by Skunk Studios and released in 2005 for personal computers. It builds upon the mechanics of its predecessor by tasking players with clearing grids of colorful, animated cubes that feature distinct facial expressions. The objective is to click on gro...

QBeez is a tile-matching puzzle video game released by Skunk Studios in 2001. Players remove adjoining groups of identically colored cube-shaped characters, causing the remaining pieces to collapse and creating opportunities for larger matches or chain reactions. Its expressive cubes, which have ani...

The Daisetta sinkhole formed on May 7, 2008, near the small city of Daisetta in Liberty County, Texas, within an area associated with historic oil production and the Hull Salt Dome. It expanded rapidly to roughly 600 feet across and about 150 feet deep, swallowing trees, utility equipment, vehicles,...

Push Panic is a 2010 iOS tile-matching game by Appular and designer Barry Kostjens, later ported to Android in 2014.

Super Collapse! Puzzle Gallery 2 is a casual computer puzzle title in GameHouse's five-game Puzzle Gallery spin-off line. It extends the Collapse! concept into a collection of set-based puzzles, so the emphasis is on completing individual challenges rather than following a single continuous adventur...

Super Collapse! Puzzle Gallery is a 2007 PC puzzle title from GameHouse and a spin-off of the Collapse! series. It adapts Collapse!'s core idea of clearing adjacent groups of matching colors and presents that activity as a collection of gallery-style puzzles rather than as a single continuous board...

Super Collapse! Puzzle Gallery 3 is the third entry in GameHouse's Puzzle Gallery line, a series built around the Super Collapse block-removal rules. Each puzzle asks the player to remove colored blocks in as few moves as possible, and the game contains 300 puzzles with hints and varied patterns. It...

Chain Shot! is a Japanese computer puzzle game created by Kuniaki Moribe and released in 1985. It is recognized as the original form of the later SameGame design: players remove connected groups of blocks sharing a color, after which remaining blocks fall and empty columns close. Source code for ver...

Wink Sink No. 1 is a large geological sinkhole located in Winkler County, West Texas, that first collapsed on June 3, 1980. The crater was caused by the subsurface dissolution of the Salado salt formation, a phenomenon heavily linked to the region's historical oil and gas extraction activities. It m...

Super Collapse! Puzzle Gallery 4 is a PC puzzle game from the Super Collapse series, developed by GameHouse and published by RealNetworks. Players click groups of matching colored blocks to clear boards, with the score affected by the number of moves used. The fourth Puzzle Gallery entry contains mo...

Swell Foop is a free software puzzle game in the GNOME application family, formerly known as Same GNOME. It uses a grid of colored or otherwise matching objects: the player removes adjacent groups, then the remaining pieces fall downward and cleared columns slide left. The game is designed for short...

Lost Island: Blast Adventure is a 2018 mobile puzzle game developed by Plarium. Its levels use blast-style tile clearing, while progression is connected to restoring and decorating a tropical island setting. The combination gives the game two linked activities: solving short color-based puzzles and...

Super Collapse! Puzzle Gallery 5 is a PC puzzle title in the Collapse! series and part of GameHouse's five-game Puzzle Gallery spin-off line. It uses the series' tile-clearing puzzle identity and presents the fifth numbered gallery as the closing entry in that specific five-game set. The game is for...

KSame is a free, open-source puzzle game in the KDE games collection, based on the tile-clearing game SameGame. The player removes groups of adjacent pieces of the same color; after pieces disappear, the remaining tiles fall and empty columns close under the standard rules. It is designed for short,...