Mick Hartley

Pictures from Guatemala after their "rough week", involving a volcanic eruption and ash fall, a powerful tropical storm, the resulting floods and landslides – and this terrifying sinkhole in Guatemala City that swallowed up a small building and an intersection:

[Photo: REUTERS/Casa Presidencial]

"The sinkhole caused by the rains of Tropical Storm Agatha in Guatemala City is estimated to be 30 meters wide and over 60 meters deep. The sinkhole formed Saturday, swallowing a clothing factory about three miles from the site of a similar sinkhole three years ago. The clothing factory had closed only an hour before it plunged into the Earth."