A town in Germany is crumbling away by the minute
Updated | By Nkhensani Manabe
The cracks are showing on the surface of this German town - and a new coat of paint will not fix the problem.
A town in southwest Germany is slowly falling apart at the seams.
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The residents of Staufen are witnessing the cracking and shifting of the buildings in their town little by little, all as a result of a geothermal drilling exercise.
Measures were put in place to slow the bulging of the ground, and the cracks are now only growing at a few millimeters per month.
However, even this supposedly small amount of cracking is too much for some buildings to withstand.
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