How do sinkholes happen and not get noticed before building stuff like houses or streets on top of it?

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Basically I have seen another parking lot getting swallowed by a sudden sinkhole and i was wondering how stuff like that even happens?

Is there no way to check if there is a hole under the surface even if it is several 100 meters deep?

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The hole wasn’t there when they built the building. Something caused the hole, and it happened after the building was built. For example, you can get sinkholes around water pipes if the pipe springs a leak. The water washes the soil away from the pipe, causing a sinkhole.

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