Early on the morning of May 12, 2016, “a portal to hell,” as one neighbor called it, opened on Woodland Terrace outside St Thomas’ Church in Charlton, southeast London. The void partially swallowed a parked minivan, leaving it dangling by the front end with room to spare for another vehicle. In the Bronx, New York, on July 18, 2022, a sinkhole on Radcliff Avenue swallowed a parked white van, dropping it 20 feet deep into the pit. The hole measured 15 feet wide and 58 feet long. It was the second major “hellmouth,” as one resident called it, on the same street within a year. The first had opened during Hurricane Ida in August 2021. On Poydras Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, a massive hole opened in front of City Hall on the evening of January 11, 2024, and eventually swallowed the front end of a woman’s car while she was on her way to the symphony. In the Dusit district of Bangkok, Thailand, on September 24, 2025 the land gave way between the Vajira Hospital and Samsen Police Station (Figure 1). The sinkhole continued to open for two days, before stabilizing at approximately 131 feet wide and 164 feet deep. The void sucked three cars and the entire road into the soil flow. On the afternoon of September 13, 2025, a sinkhole opened on a residential street in the Iztapalapa borough of Mexico City. The back wheel of a Jarritos soda delivery truck snagged on the asphalt. Eventually the entire truck slipped backwards into the approximately 26 feet deep, 39 feet long, and 23 feet wide rupture where it rested vertically for over 20 hours before it could be removed with a crane.