A car plunged into a sinkhole that opened up on a bridge in Dundee, Scotland amid torrential rain as Storm Babet ravaged parts of the UK.
At least five people have died in Storm Babet, which has been named by the UK Meteorological Office.
The violent storm battered Britain as well as northern Germany and southern Scandinavia with powerful winds, heavy rain and sea surges.
The car was left significantly damaged after it plunged into the sinkhole.
Severe weather warnings are in place in Scotland and amber warnings in the north of England until the weekend as Storm Babet sweeps the country.
A massive sinkhole opened up in San Francisco after a water main broke.
The break in the water main led to flooding of mud, water and debris, CNN reported.
"On Monday morning, San Francisco police and Department of Public Works crews were at the intersection of Fillmore and Green where the large sinkhole had opened up.
"Heavy equipment has been brought into the area."
Authorities say repairs could take up to a week.
A sinkhole on central Auckland's College Hill was caused by an old stormwater pipe due for renewal next month, Auckland Council has said.
Roads surrounding a growing sinkhole outside Auckland's police headquarters were closed on Tuesday morning, allowing council staff to assess the large hole.
"[The team] have been on site and identified that a storm water pipe that was due for renewal this August had developed further damage, causing the soil and road above it to subside," an council spokesperson told Stuff.
The sinkhole is estimated to be about 1.6 metres deep, 3.5 metres long and 2.5 metres wide, with a hole tunnelling under the road for about 1.5 metres.
Just next to the hole is a covered-up hole that was formed during the Auckland Anniversary weekend flooding in January, which locals say has never been repaired.
A sinkhole in west-central Florida has opened again, roughly 10 years after it killed a man when it opened under his bedroom, officials said this week.
It's the third time the sinkhole in Seffner, roughly a 15-mile drive east of Tampa, has opened.
After the hole claimed the life of Jeff Bush in 2013, sending him plunging dozens of metres into the earth, Hillsborough County filled the hole and bought the property and home next to it to make sure no one lived too close.
Then, in 2015, the hole reopened – about 20 feet wide at the time – and was again filled. No one was injured in the 2015 reopening.
Officials were told the sinkhole had once again opened, but ensured the surrounding communities they were not impacted and informed nearby residents it was safe to stay in their homes.
A sinkhole remediation contractor visited the site Tuesday to draft a plan.
Authorities have not yet been able to determine what caused the sinkhole to open again.
Bush's brother, Jeremy Bush, told CNN affiliate WFTS that seeing the sinkhole open again is a crippling reminder of the terrifying night in 2013 he heard his sibling screaming for help before vanishing into the ground.
"Ain't a day that goes by that I don't think about my brother," he told the news station this week.
"Stuff that happened in that house that night, and hearing my brother yell and scream for me to help him, I hear it all the time."
The emergence of a mysterious sinkhole threatened the future of a summer fair at Malvern Primary School in Huyton, England.
Headteacher Tony James told BBC Radio he accidentally stumbled into the large hole, which suddenly appeared on school grounds just two days before the annual Malfest event on July 8.
James said he was fine and not injured.
"My biggest concern was how's this going to impact what's coming into school," he told the radio station.
Fortunately, the local council came to the fair's rescue and helped to organise for the hole to be safely filled in before the fair rides were delivered to the school grounds.
This monster sinkhole opened up in an uptown Minneapolis intersection in the US.
Construction experts say a 120-year-old clay sewerage pipe caused the sinkhole to open after it fell apart.
Workers descended into the sinkhole to determine how it opened up, surrounded by a reinforced box in case it collapsed in on them.
Two sinkholes opened up in the NSW city of Newcastle within days of each other.
The first one on Saturday, March 25, displaced residents and forced roads to close.
The second one on March 28 caused over $3 million in damage to a local Diggers club and forced a dozen residents into temporary accommodation.
Heavy storms and rain through California have opened up multiple sinkholes across the US state.
Here, a photo from the Ventura County Fire Department shows a car swallowed by a sinkhole as it was parked outside Santa Paula High School.
The fire department confirmed on Twitter the car was unoccupied and nobody was hurt.
The LA Times quoted a local public works official as saying the sinkhole was caused by a ruptured storm drain following recent torrential rains.
A huge sinkhole has opened up at Beechboro in Perth, almost swallowing an SUV whole.
Emergency personnel opened an investigation into the incident, but it is understood there were no injuries.
Barlee and Brockmill roads were undergoing roadworks when the incident took place.
"Looks like the pit of hell opened up last night," a user wrote on social media in response to the picture of the incident.
A search started on September 27 for a mother and daughter who disappeared when their vehicle was swallowed by a massive sinkhole in Guatemala.
The sinkhole opened in the middle of the Villa Nueva's main thoroughfare.
The girl's father was rescued from the hole, along with three other people.
A crane lifted a small blue SUV from the hole.
Rescuers descended using ropes and ladders.
At one point, the crane lowered rescuers and a search dog into the opening.
Copious amounts of rain dumped during the region's rainy season has led to landslides and collapsed roadways.
Video circulated online showed other traffic passing on both sides of the sinkhole on dark rain-soaked streets before the blue vehicle tumbled into the hole.
A giant sinkhole 25 metres wide and an estimated 200 metres deep suddenly opened near a copper mine in Chile, prompting officials to launch an investigation on July 30.