Residents of a center-city neighborhood in Guatemala City, Guatemala, are still in shock after a massive sinkhole opened last weekend, gobbling several buildings and nearly an entire intersection, according to local officials.

You look at the photos and it almost doesn’t look real. It looks like something out of a science fiction movie. But it’s real and it’s one of the strangest things I’ve ever seen. Looking down that giant hole and all the things around it, I’m reminded while we’ve built on top of the surface of the earth with our concrete and steel; our malls, buildings and houses, it’s still a big dense ball we’re floating around on.

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