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New Mexico
Impending Collapse in Carlsbad, NM?
November 11, 2009 | MSNBC

About 30 years ago, oil companies created a brine well beneath an area near Carlsbad, New Mexico. Man-made caverns like this have collapsed nearby, which is causing concern that another collapse may occur.


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