HUGE SINKHOLE OPENS UP IN FUKUOKA, JAPAN|日福岡博多站前大塌陷 地鐵工程惹禍

In the early morning of November 8, a massive sinkhole appeared near a downtown train station in Japan's southern city of Fukuoka. The local authority suspects a nearby subway extension project as the culprit. All occupants in nearby buildings have been evacuated. A five-lane road to the Hakata Train Station in Fukuoka suddenly collapsed and created two large sinkholes. The traffic lights had sunk as well. ==RESIDENT== There were two large sinkholes and the sinkholes were continually expanding. It was scary to see the traffic lights fell, you felt that you got nowhere to run. The incident occurred around 5 in the morning, nearby buildings and residents had a power outage and water disruption. The massive sinkhole continued expanding for two to three hours, and measured 15 meters long and 20 meters wide. The Fukuoka City Traffic Service Management Department had stated the Nanakuma Subway extension project began in 2014. In October of that year, water pipeline installation caused the road collapsed for the first time. The authority had suspected the same cause for the collapsing. Workers said they had already tried to avoid water pipelines, maybe the on-going construction accidentally shifted underground water layer, and caused the road collapsed. The authorities had blockaded the intersection, terminated gas supply, and evacuated occupants from the nearby buildings. TRANSLATED BY：ANTHONY LIN 清晨時分，福岡博多車站前的道路上，竟然出現兩個大洞，仔細看，還能看到原本路旁的號誌燈，竟然還繼續往下塌陷。 ==鄰近住戶== 已經出現了兩個大洞 感覺洞穴還不斷往外擴張 附近穿越道路用的號誌燈倒下時 是最可怕的 感覺根本逃不掉 事發在當地清晨5點左右，道路塌陷後，鄰近的大樓、住宅開始斷水、斷電。大洞還不斷擴大，兩、三個小時後，洞穴已經長達15公尺，寬達20公尺，橫跨五個車道。福岡市交通局指出，塌陷處附近，正在進行地鐵"七隈線"的延長線路工程。這個工程在2014年開工，在2014年10月，也曾因為地鐵工程要移設下水道的水管，導致道路塌陷，懷疑這次也是地鐵工程惹禍。 工人指出，工程進行時，已經小心避開自來水管線，可能是破壞了地下水流動的地層，才導致塌陷。目前當局除了禁止相關路段通行，停止供應瓦斯外，也要求鄰近大樓住戶，盡速撤離，以免發生危險。 記者 陳詩童 報導