Woman finds giant sinkhole under her bed

INOCENTA HERNANDEZ from Guatemala City heard a sudden loud booming sound and quickly ran outside thinking there had been an explosion nearby.

But then she realised the noise had come from inside her home.

When the 65-year-old mustered up the courage to go back into her house she found a gaping, three feet wide, 40ft-deep sinkhole beneath her bed

She was relieved that the damage was only to her house, and hadn’t harmed her grandchildren, who had been playing near the bed.

This was a little too close to home, but probably wasn’t the first sinkhole she had seen.

Guatemala City is prone to spawning giant pits, which are often caused by tropical rain storms.

Sinkholes are natural depressions in the earth that can range anywhere from a few feet to hundreds of acres wide, and measure a shallow foot to 100 feet deep.

A massive chasm opened up in Guatemala City back in May 2010; it swallowed up whole buildings and an intersection, but no deaths were blamed on the almost perfect cylindrical crater.