Shutterstock / emirhankaramuk Hundreds of South Dakota residents are involved in a lawsuit against the state itself, after sinkholes began opening up near their neighborhood in 2020. According to Daily Mail,

Families in a South Dakota neighborhood are fearing for their safety as sinkholes have appeared around their homes in the area above an old underground mine.

Sinkholes are fairly common, due to collapsed caves, old mines or dissolving material, but the circumstances in South Dakota stand out, said Paul Santi, a professor of geological engineering at