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It was built in a natural sinkhole, and maybe this is what happens to sinkholes?


I've read a number of publications covering Arecibo. I've not read anywhere that subsidence or any other sinkhole related activity hastened it's demise.

This seems to have been much more a problem of ~60yo hardware, suffering decades of insufficient maintenance funding, compounded by multiple tropical events and at least one earthquake.


That's fair. Thanks for sharing.




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